Tag: dreams
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Castelli Nanoflex
January Morning Rules There’s no better excuse for buying some new items of kit than finding yourself in the middle of the Cornish countryside on a beautifully cold, crisp, sunny January morning with your bike in the boot of your car and realising you have forgotten to pack a number of integral pieces of…
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The Icemen Cometh
Keeping the Winter at bay Riding to King’s Lynn is an fascinating journey. A mix of: suburbs; sharp-climbs through north London; open roads, seemingly used only by cyclists; quintessential English villages; emptiness and gales that want to knock you off your bike. Add to this freezing conditions that create snowflakes to your eyelashes. Icing up your…
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Bootie Power
With or without your Booties When in doubt, bling it out! There are booties, and there are ‘booties’. Before you reach for your phone and call out “discrimination”, just bear in mind we’re talking about what’s on your feet, not your behind. Velotoze is a new kind of bootie. Firstly, there’s no zip, nor velcro in…
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It never happened
Ouch! That’s gonna hurt. John pulls over and discovers he’s lost metres, forgot to record them, on his bike computer. The disaster isn’t physical; it’s virtual. Justified Self It’s something that happens often and isn’t confined to cycling only. Debbie recently acquired a Garmin which she used on the Berlin Skate marathon. The monitoring chip distributed…
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Baroudeurs in Roubaix
Our Christmas party and 5th Year Anniversary had lots of surprises. One of them included this: A special thanks to all the London Baroudeurs and the Cowbells. Great work, everyone!
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Biblical Herts and Heroes
Weather Bomb, ba-bomb, bomb, bomb It’s Sunday; there’s 6 of us; it’s a little wet; how bad can it get? Pretty bad from what I recall. Meeting up with DC was the easy part, but clearly the communication needs some tweaking. Daddy Cool rolls up in his blue-fixie, only to discover that I’m on gears, with mudguards.…
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We Noel a good party
We want to say a big thank you for everyone making it to the Baroudeur Christmas/5th Year anniversary party. It was a terrific night celebrating both team and individual accomplishment. A special thanks to everyone’s significant others, Baroudeurs who were here in spirit, and to Look Mum No Hands for hosting the party. This is…
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December BBR
It’s here. The final BBR of 2014. Sunday 14 December at 0800. Be there, or be another victim of the Sunday morning lie-in! Don’t let riding alone drive you up the wall Come and join us on a Baroudeur Big Ride, an open invite, sociably paced with a stop for cake. The next Baroudeur Big Ride…
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Gimme hope Joanna
The bicycle make me happy, that I get on school fast, and I go home faster, and I clean, and I can do my homework’s and I can do everything. So, explains the young boy called Simphiwe in the video. He is a delighted lad, having received a new bicycle from the cycling charity, Qhubeka. Put your…
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Fly my pretties fly
The very latest Fly6. An initial look at the new device. It’s a Light, but not like you know it If you’ve been skirting around the cycling websites you would have come across the impressive offering by Fly6. A rear facing camera and light all in one. Within months, the creators, Andrew and Kingsley have taken…
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May the Orfos be with you
Great innovations often occur out of frustration that a solution does not currently exist. So what do we do? Do we sit around and wait for someone to come up with an idea, and risk it falling short, leading to even more frustrating experiences? Or do we do something about it? When it comes to…
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Falling Leaves BBR 2014
Besides the excellent autumn conditions, we had plenty to smile about: the monthly BBR rolling around; our first BBR to Kent and conditions barely mild enough to get away with a short sleeve jersey (SSJ). Hence the funky overstocks on display, but more so, because of the terrific company. The biggest BBR turnout yet, and how suitable…
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Last Orders
David Millar, a popular cycling ambassador and former British road race champion leaves pro cycling after celebrating a 17-year career. Not all of it was illustrious. Millar served a two year ban, from 2004, for taking performance enhancing drugs. Thanks to his vocal anti-doping campaigning and a second chance return through a ‘clean team’ approach via Garmin-Cervelo,…
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BBR Information
Fact 1: Riding with a club is more fun than riding alone. Fact 2: We are not Gorilla’s. The Winter is! Fact 3: We wish we could do this more often… What’s this all about? Don’t let riding alone drive you up the wall. Come and join us on a Baroudeur Big Ride (BBR). The BBR…
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Space Bike
Three…Two…One…We have lift off! This week’s ground breaking Rosetta probe-landing on a shooting comet is an impressive feat of engineering and human achievement. I’ve always been reminded that as much as we explore outer space, our very planet has still much left undiscovered. Looking closer to home, there is a new space project happening. The knack of making the…
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The Boulder Body
Boulder, Colorado is ubiquitous with the great outdoors. Naturally, it is home to some of the greatest North American cycle races; often being used as the backdrop for pro-cycling. Ask cyclists who would move to the States, Boulder is top of the list. It’s a place where you could happily bring up a family, ride your bike…
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Stop At Nothing – Documentary Review
The room seems small and blue. The camera is rolling. You sense everyone needs to exhale and relax. But this is no ordinary day; this is a typical day in the life of Lance Armstrong (LA), and is the opening scene to the Storyville documentary, ‘Stop At Nothing‘, first screened in June 2014, and currently accessible for…
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A Gorilla Winter
Fact 1: Riding with a club is more fun than riding alone. Fact 2: We are not Gorilla’s. The Winter is! Fact 3: We wish we could do this more often. Don’t let riding alone drive you up the wall. Come and join us on a Baroudeur Big Ride, an open invite, sociably paced with a…
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This Wool is Cool
Wool is cool, and in so many ways. If you’re an outdoorsy person, you’ll know that once wet, cotton kills, yet wool won’t let you down. Thanks to their popular demand, almost everything is available in wool these days; from: beanies; gloves; base layers; SSJ/LSJ; arm warmers; knee warmers; leg warmers and socks. You get the…
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Hard as a Belgian
You can’t be made to do this. You’re made for it. Thank you Yes, thank you to all the Baroudeurs (new and seasonsed) who made last night’s gathering a great social event. We are humbled and delighted that you have chosen to ride with this, your team. It’s not easy cycling in these dark months, at London…