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    2015 Paris-Brest-Paris 1200km randonnée.

    It just takes me 15 minutes to wake up again. OK, not wide awake but sufficiently to carry on. I eat a bit and mount my bike again, back into the rain. We're slowly leaving the hills of the Perche, now it's the time to crank up the speed. There are more people around here, some villages are even...
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    2015 Paris-Brest-Paris 1200km randonnée.

    I'm still very sleepy when I awake. There's still some time so I decide to sleep a little bit more and this is enough. I ut on another layer and take my bike again. The remaining stretch to the control is rather fast, as usual I enjoy the long descent to Tinteniac. I manage to gain enough...
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    2015 Paris-Brest-Paris 1200km randonnée.

    Right on time the light is switched on. I'm wide awake and leave my cot. But outside it looks completely different now. Yesterday morning there was only a light fog but this is heavy fog, I can hardly see anything. Carefully I rejoin the road. Luckily a lot of riders are out on the road now...
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    2015 Paris-Brest-Paris 1200km randonnée.

    Slowly we head out for the first kilometers. The spectators line the road. Especially on the bridge over the motorway it gives a real Tour de France feeling. Except that we don't speed through it. I take my time for the roundabout. 2-3 corners later we reach the wide 4 lane boulevard. Two lanes...
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    2015 Paris-Brest-Paris 1200km randonnée.

    PBP 2015, balancing on the limit. It has gronw into a tradition for me, every four years I travel to St Quentin-en-Yvellines, the Paris suburb where Paris-Brest-Paris starts nowadays. This year I attended m 6th PBP. There was a break in the tradition however, after 5 starts in a sports complex...
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    2015 Paris-Brest-Paris 1200km randonnée.

    He didn't quite make it to the finish. At the secret control in St. Nicolas de Pelem Wobbly enquired about train connections.
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    2015 Paris-Brest-Paris 1200km randonnée.

    Re: I also did PBP 2015 on a classic bike. My choice was my trusted Koga Miyata Grantourer, a '87 model. Got round with some time in hand but not too much. Some time soon I'll post a serious report.
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    Disadvantages and advantages of not owning a car

    I've never driven or owned a car. I safe an enormous amount of money with it. Money I can use on bikes and travelling. I've hardly ever sensed that it limits me. I can get nearly anywhere, of course I own a Brompton for the most efficient combination of rail & bike. OK, I do live near to...
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    Alleweder-Velomobile

    I've once encountered a temporary deaf Alleweder rider. That was during the Paris-Amsterdam Human Power Race. He had some rattling item inside his machine. There were a lot of cobbled roads during the crossing of Brussels. At the first control after Brussels he was partially deaf.
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    Stalen Ros 7 :: Dutch Show / Jumble

    My photoset from the Stalen Ros: http://fotoalbum.dds.nl/ivo_m/stalenros ... 73efc0304b
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    What are these holes for?

    There are many bikes with rack fittings having close clearances and caliper brakes. If the holes are threaded they are rack fittings.
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    From Asril Vrazih.

    just reported it.
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    Best frame for a AUDAX bike

    I'm organising a nice 300 end of april, most of the part through Belgium. Located in the south of the Netherlands and audax organiser there.
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    Best frame for a AUDAX bike

    One of my audax bikes is a classic Koga Miyata Grantourer: viewtopic.php?f=23&t=128637
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    Ukraine and the wisdom of the RB crowd

    Going back to the historic field. One of the most voiceful countries now is Poland. Interesting is that they still celebrate Marshall Pilsudski as a national hero. And guess what he did? Ordering a general to March into the area of a neighbouring country and annexing it...
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