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2021-08-16 14:04:16 - It was great to see another sportive in our area, and with the dark clouds of the Covid period beginning to clear my cycling buddy, Paul, and I signed up for the...
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2021-08-11 14:48:13 - You wait 18 months for a sportive, and then three turn up at once... It was revealed at the briefing for the Mendips Classic sportive that there were two other similar...
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2021-07-26 10:58:01 - I've flown in an aeroplane. I've used a plane when hanging a door. I've eaten plain crisps and (unbelievably, you'd imagine) like a plain salad. I've done things that...
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2021-07-22 12:38:07 - I have to admit I had never heard of Sportive HQ until I saw a piece in Sportive.com that stated they'd been voted the best sportive organisers. Whilst I'm no expert on...
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2021-07-14 14:11:39 - The past weekend saw the first edition of Glorious Gravel Salisbury Plains sportive. I headed along at the last minute - together with Andy - to try out the course in a...
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2021-06-28 11:56:12 - The Glorious Gravel team have been busy during lockdown putting together a series of rides up and down the country for 2021. We sent Alex along on one of them to see how...
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2021-06-15 06:36:54 - My personal experience of the Black Rat sportive 2021 was the very definition of "failing to prepare is preparing to fail". This was in complete contrast to the...
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2021-06-14 11:38:02 - The Rapha Pennine Rally starts this Tuesday 15 June, with 74 riders rolling out of Edinburgh on an unsupported off-road (mostly) adventure to Manchester over the...
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2021-05-03 17:14:06 - There's an opening sequence in one of my favourite all-time sitcoms, very Bergmanesque, where the Grim Reaper is playing chess with a mortal. The mortal moves a piece...
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2021-01-19 14:50:23 - As we brush the dust of 2020's smoking ruins from our collective shoulder, let's take one quick look back at the year's final challenge: the Rapha Festive 500. I'm sure...
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2020-10-29 12:08:49 - Well, the winter's here and no one looks forward to that time of the year in the UK. Gone are the hot temperatures and sunshine. Gone are the long days. Gone are the dry...
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2020-10-07 10:04:53 - He's gone and done it! On September 20th just after 6pm, Eoghan completed his Everesting attempt on Firle Beacon. Eoghan climbed the hill an incredible 67 times to bring...
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2020-10-05 23:18:16 - There's an urban myth that you can fit the entire population of the Earth on the Isle of Wight. Even allowing for the lack of social distancing, this is quite an ask....
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2020-07-07 17:58:59 - So, anyone else ride the Virtual L'Etape du Tour over the weekend? As something of an historic sportive occasion - the first ever virtual Etape, running alongside the...
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2020-05-27 11:09:10 - Anyone paying even casual attention to Ribble Cycles in recent years will have noticed that something is stirring in Lancashire. Founded in 1897 in Preston - just 12...
