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Great to see the sponsorship deal with Countdown has finally come through - it was announced on last Thursday’s show
The first three letter choices placed on the Countdown board of the long running Channel 4 TV show are the consonants DNF - familiar to cycling fans as the acronym for Did Not Finish.
November 22, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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I think this year’s road signs marked the transition - as previously they were just branded ‘criterium du Dauphiné’
Yellow signs with black arrows, marked Critérium du Dauphiné and Auvergne Rhône Alpes, stacked in boxes in the back of a van
June 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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A trip up in to the clouds at Tre’r Ceiri (town of the giants) on Llyn Peninsula today for a very atmospheric #hillfortwednesday where I was surrounded by dozens of stone round houses, within walls meters thick, and with only choughs and clouds for company
The entrance to an Iron Age hillfort through a narrow gap between thick walls of rocks, with rocks strewn in the foreground and cloud in the background A stone round house with walls a couple of metres wide shaped in a rough circle about 1.5 metres with grass in the centre and the entrance facing away from the viewer in to surrounding stone round houses fading in to the cloud A stone round house which looks to comprise two chambers with walls around 2 metres thick and about 1 metre high, a grass base and some dark heather in the foreground and cloud behind What appears to be a scree slope of largish angular boulders and stones disappearing in to the cloud is actually the entranceway to one of the best hill forts in the country
February 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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And of course that move from Ans further legitimised minor rearrangements of biscuit aisles for the day. Not sure many race names can justify that….
In a supermarket products on shelves have been rearranged so that a packet of Liège waffles is placed in a shelf above another shelf where there is a packet of Bastogne biscuits, that is placed on to of another packet of Liège waffles
February 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Introduce yourself with four climbs
The view on a bright summer’s day of the descent from the Col du Pré through meadows of bright yellow flowers and pine trees, towards to Roselend Reservoir in the middle distance with the ascent to the Cormet du Roselend in the distance. This route was once described by Daniel Friebe as the hipster route up that climb, as opposed to the more direct route from Beaufort in the Savoie department of the Rhône-Alpes The view back down the Col du Joly, an out and back climb in the Savoie department of the Rhône-Alpes. Through low clouds the sinuous quiet road descends through scattered patches of snow, and disappears as a ribbon into the distance and Hauteluce. This climb leads to a fantastic vantage point of the Mont Blanc Massif that is only realised in the very last moment and when visibility allows. A road sign at the top of the infamously steep Rosedale Chimney on the North Yorkshire Moors states ‘Chimney Bank. Dangerous Hill. Engage low gear now. Cyclists please dismount’. The warning sign at the start of the climb in Rosedale Abbey states it is 1 in 3, which explains why it is also known as ‘The Chain Breaker’ A sign at the start of the steep and roughly cobbled Koppenburg climb at Melden in Flanders advises ‘Stop. When Koppenburg equals too crowdy, please wait, so you can ride to the top’. This temporary sign was in place for the Ride Flanders sportive held the day before the Ronde van Vlaanderen, and is needed because the short and savage climb sees many sportive riders having to walk the steepest 20% section, ideally on the right side to allow riders to pass on the left
November 22, 2024 at 11:31 AM
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Introduce yourself with four riders [whose photos you took]
It’s the 2022 edition of the Ronde van Vlaanderen and at the top of the final ascent of the cobbled Oude Kwaremont climb, Tadej Pogačar leads the eventual winner Mathieu van der Poel through the cheering and boozy crowd and ahead of the following motos It’s 2014, and at the top of the final climb of Liege-Bastogne-Liege in Ans, the Aussie champion Simon Gerrans winds up his sprint to come off the wheel of Alejandro Valverde before the final left turn and his victory It’s the 2018 Paris Roubaix, and near the end of one of the final and easier pave sectors at Inchy, the French rider Adrian Petit is skillfully riding out a flat tyre over the cobbles, whilst looking back with an arm raised for assistance It’s 2012, and in an effort to win a prize as part of the annual carnival in Aldeburgh, a coastal town in Suffolk, somebody has decorated their pink cottage to look like a smiling Bradley Wiggins in the yellow jersey, wearing dark shades and with large sideburns,
November 19, 2024 at 7:34 PM
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#Dahlia ‘Chat Noir’ - Fibonacci fineness on the kitchen table. Good luck bringer in all hopefully
A deep burgundy coloured semi cactus Dahlia called ‘Chat Noir’ is shoved in a beer glass and catches the sunlight in its petals
November 16, 2024 at 10:25 PM