Media Frenzy
VecchioJo's Spring 100 gets mediajacked, and this is the result...
Morvelo100
Strava, Facebook, Twitter, Endomondo, Flickr, mapmyride - these days it’s almost impossible for people to go for a ride without turning it into a multi-media event*, to the point where if someone doesn’t upload a picture or tweet it or log the miles it’s as if the ride never happened, because there’s no proof that it ever existed. Despite trying to retune the signal to noise by sneaking out for a few hours and only recording the ride in my head, heart and legs, sometimes, just sometimes you want to wave your arms in the air and show everyone just how much fun riding a bike can be.
So here’s a little film those cheeky medias whores at Morvelo made when they hijacked the traditional 100 mile ride a bunch of friends and I do to celebrate the start of Spring.
Bikes, sunshine, friends, 100, cake. What’s not to want to media clusterbomb?
(*yes, the irony of complaining about this on a cycling blog)
Definitely the Downs Link and the Col du Hammerpond in that sequence 
Never really thought of the Downlink as Pave before - there's an idea for a weekend challenge, especially the section from Cranleigh to Southwater
What's the soundtrack from?
What's the soundtrack from?
Take Me! by the Wedding Present, from the album Bizarro.
"warm hands and the things you say / you get lovelier every day"
Lyrics finish at 2:37 but the song is over nine minutes long
Surely one of the finest pop records ever
Recognised quite a few of those roads and trails. In terms of the Downslink, try the North Downs Way-Downslink-SouthDowns Way mash-up on a CX bike.
Make mine an Italian with Campagnolo on the side
Wow .... Dave likes the Wedding Present ... if it was possible for you to get any higher ... you'd go up in my estimations 
I'm sure I saw someone enjoying himself. Stop it at once. More suffering please.
Noli porcum linguere
Love it... but a Canon Ixus.. small? I dont think so, hahaha!
...regds the Weddoes...prefer Interstate 5...that's a damn fine tune... 
The_Kaner
FREEEEEEEEDOM!
oops...Firefox has jet lag...double post
The_Kaner
FREEEEEEEEDOM!
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