Tour De France Challenge - 21 Days in July
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glad to have you on board Tom, and I'm also happy that my explaination helped a little.
Don't worry about the climbing - there's NO WAY we'll get the same nett climbing as the actual tour, and it's reasonably flat around here as well... I'm definitely more of a "rouleur" than a "grimpeur". And anyway - i'd look a complete dork in the "KOM" jersey anyway...
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i'm more comfortable playing second fiddleSo - it's getting close everyone...
Time to sign-up, I reckon...
I'll start off...
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(don't forget - if you get the #1, you've to be team leader and win the yellow... I've already nabbed "road captain"
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Add your name to a copy of the signup sheet in your post...
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Well we're doing well - we've got as many on the team now as Radioshack finished last years tour with :laugh:0
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thought I'd better get the Jerseys and Dossards sorted... here's a mockup of the Maillot Jaune...
(yeah - like it's ever going to have my name/number on it :laugh: !)0 -
Maybe this will motivate me to get out and ride more!
[/quote]So - it's getting close everyone...
Time to sign-up, I reckon...
I'll start off...
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307- cyclerjenn
308 - Kupe
309 - TheBigYin
(don't forget - if you get the #1, you've to be team leader and win the yellow... I've already nabbed "road captain")
Add your name to a copy of the signup sheet in your post...
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Race Numbers are here - Hot off the Press...
yes... it's still raining :laugh:
(and yes - the european riders DO get their national flag and the EU flag - I'm pretty sure rest of world make do with one flag...)0 -
301 - FatDadSlim
302 - RedSunshine365
303 - TDSeest
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306 - hawkeygal1995
307- cyclerjenn
308 - Kupe
309 - TheBigYin
(don't forget - if you get the #1, you've to be team leader and win the yellow... I've already nabbed "road captain")
Add your name to a copy of the signup sheet in your post...
TheBigYin
Come on then, i'm psyched up to get 1,000 miles in for July.
(sorry, 1609 km... got to start thinking metric!)0 -
Come on then, i'm psyched up to get 1,000 miles in for July.
(sorry, 1609 km... got to start thinking metric!)
Yay !! Another crazy person... have a Dossard - I assume you can provide you'r own safety-pins :laugh:
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Safety pins "check"
hope you don't mind but i've changed the dossard ever so slightly ;-)
(Just bought a waterproof rucksack cover from wiggle in preparation as well!)0 -
I was actually going to ask if you'd want a dragon version... I only put the union flag on mine because the white field of St. George gets lost in the background. Frankly, given my choice, I'd have the White Rose rather than a flag anyway... :laugh:
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301 - FatDadSlim
302 - RedSunshine365
303 - TDSeest
304 -amiller7x7
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306 - hawkeygal1995
307- cyclerjenn
308 - Kupe
309 - TheBigYin
(don't forget - if you get the #1, you've to be team leader and win the yellow... I've already nabbed "road captain")
Add your name to a copy of the signup sheet in your post...
TheBigYin
I'll try 304 unless someone has already taken it - since we might have more than 9 riders, would we double up on the numbers or just keep adding numbers? Just curious.
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301 - FatDadSlim
302 - RedSunshine365
303 - TDSeest
304 -amiller7x7
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306 - hawkeygal1995
307- cyclerjenn
308 - Kupe
309 - TheBigYin
(don't forget - if you get the #1, you've to be team leader and win the yellow... I've already nabbed "road captain")
Add your name to a copy of the signup sheet in your post...
TheBigYin
I'll try 304 unless someone has already taken it - since we might have more than 9 riders, would we double up on the numbers or just keep adding numbers? Just curious.
Thanks!
By the way, I will be off-line beginning some time on 30 june until about 8-9 of July. I will be riding (and assuming the electronics are working) for 6 of those days on a short bicycle tour (Riding on 1,2, 3 July and 5, 6, 7 July). I can/will post the data when we are back at home but I am not taking a laptop on this trip. Is that going to mess up the process for the event?
Thx
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Welcome Aboard Al - Dossard #304 is reserved for you. No problems with the logging, just declare it when you're back with a computer and enjoy the tour. I'll keep the data on a spreadsheet, and publish the "GC" etc when everyone on the team has either declared a mileage or "nul" for a given day if they've not ridden. So - it may take a while to get things "out there" and have the Stuffed Lions sent out but i'll get there eventually :laugh:
As far as what happens if more than 9 people sign up - well - I guess we'll have to fill a second team (311 to 319). I have to confess after the almost total apathy that this idea was met with when I mooted it for the Giro D'Italia in may, it never actually crossed my mind that we'd have too many riders to fill a team.:embarassed:0 -
Seems Flickr Broke my links...I'll try again Dossard_301
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Why didn't someone tell me i'd munged hawkeygal's number ... Sorry.
Heres 304 and a new version for 306!
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Just #305 up for grabs now, before we have to start another team!!!0 -
I am in! I post all my rides to Garmin using my bike GPS.0
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I am in! I post all my rides to Garmin using my bike GPS.
I'll be team encourager and generally lovablebhardass, Jensie...0 -
sold to the Nerdieprof. - one Dossard #305 coming right up...
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301 - FatDadSlim
302 - RedSunshine365
303 - TDSeest
304 -amiller7x7
305 - nerdieprofessor
306 - hawkeygal1995
307- cyclerjenn
308 - Kupe
309 - TheBigYin
(don't forget - if you get the #1, you've to be team leader and win the yellow... I've already nabbed "road captain")
Add your name to a copy of the signup sheet in your post...
TheBigYin
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Right then folks - looks like there's going to have to be another team started if we get any more takers...
Oh - and I think we can "waive" rule 75** just for now, if it means we get some more signups...
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Rule #75
// Race numbers are for races.
Remove it from your frame before the next training ride because no matter how cool you think it looks, it does not look cool. Unless you are in a race. In which case it looks cool.0 -
Cool! Thanks TheBigYin!
In case anyone is curious as to why I shaved off my very long hair, a bit of the story is here: https://player.vimeo.com/video/44453110 My triathlon is tomorrow.
I should be able to ride on all the appropriate days, although I am officiating one weekend in there and will have to just get on the bike and so something really short. 12-14 hours of officiating bike races in the Deep South heat in July is not for the faint of heart!0 -
I think I'd probably guessed (lost my mother 4 years ago to the big C :sad: )
Right - anyone up for the second team - pick a no. again...
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My sympathies, TheBigYin. *HUG* We lost dad 4 years 1 month and 4 days ago.
My goal tomorrow is to finish, preferably without needed medical attention.0 -
Bump - for reading later. Don't have time to get my head around this just now.0
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Here go's for the Next Team then...
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(I'll start with the second Tranche of Dossards when there's a few more takers...) 0 -
Count me in. Should be able to do about 32km a day, but not every day. May try and make up some lost miles at weekend though.
Really like the team number you have generated. Would like the White Rose of Yorkshire on mine, but understand if that is only for the first team or something.0 -
And I KNEW one or more of you flaming cosmopolitan, world travelling types would be on one continent and come from another...
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@katozdad - As I've done a variation for 301 with the principalities flag rather than the union one, I may actually be tempted to swap to a White Rose flag myself to be honest - maybe the White rose at LHS and St. George at the RHS ?? - Can't do anything until you pick a number though... Please do what the rest of the people did earlier in the thread - quote a post with the most up to date list of riders and numbers, and add your own name in whatever position you fancy - there's no pressure, seeing as snow has picked the hot-seat of team leader (but if you go for road-captain (#319), you'll have to spend all 3 weeks shouting at people to ride faster/harder :laugh:)0 -
Thank you, much appreciated. I will wear it with pride0
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No worries - always helps to have a double-hard aussie on the team... I'm thinking Phil (skippy) Anderson here - one of my hero's from BITD, always remember him and Sean Yates in the early 90's riding for Motorola and out at the front, taking turns hurting the entire peleton 0
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Here go's for the Next Team then...
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(I'll start with the second Tranche of Dossards when there's a few more takers...)
Have never been able to take the easy route. Would appreciate White Rose on Left and St. George on the right like you suggest Big Yin. Many thanks, Kato0
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