Becoming a madman: Mont Ventoux three ways in a day
Some hills are famous: Box Hill, Hardknott Pass, Holme Moss, Ditchling Beacon… but only mountains become legends. The Tourmalet, Alpe D’Huez, the…
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The Surrey Splash: RideLondon 2014 report
Ever since 2010, when Major Boris Johnson (long may he reign) invented the bicycle, Londoners have gone mad for cycling. Bikes,…
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Roads closed, heavens opened: Riding the 2014 Prudential RideLondon-Surrey 100
Another sportive, another “extreme weather warning” from the organisers. But while the Etape was hit with your common-or-garden variety low cloud, cold and…
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Wet, cold and hard: Riding the 2014 Etape du Tour
L’ETAPE DU TOUR 2014 : ALERTE METEO Warning, Sunday 20th of July, the weather forecast is not good: It was July…
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Soaked on the Tourmalet: Etape du Tour 2014 report
Hands raised, resplendent in yellow, Vincenzo Nibali crosses the line on top of the Hautacam on stage 18 in 4:04:17, one…
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Marmotte 2014 ride report: Good start, slow finish
This is a very long Marmotte report. For those not interested in cycling it may be extraordinarily dull indeed. For those…
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Lanterne Rouge on the Dun Run: Dunwich Dynamo XXII report
Midnight in London and I’m racing through Shoreditch, heading for the Pub on the Park. It’s the night of the Dunwich…
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Marmotte 2014 ride report – Dan McCausland rides his first Marmotte
In October 2013 Sportive.com publisher Joe Saumarez Smith challenged Dan McCausland to ride a sportive for the first time. He suggested…
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Wye Valley Warrior sportive report – Kate’s bike gets chatted up in the Welsh valleys…
I’m not good at 6am in the morning, especially on a Sunday. The fact that I begin the day by making…
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White knuckle ride: Paris–Roubaix Challenge 2014 report
We’re in the Eurotunnel car park on the Friday before Paris-Roubaix. Through the windows of the parked cars, we can see…
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