Arriving at road.cc in 2017 via 220 Triathlon Magazine, Jack dipped his toe in most jobs on the site and over at eBikeTips before being named the new editor of road.cc in 2020, much to his surprise. His cycling life began during his students days, when he cobbled together a few hundred quid off the back of a hard winter selling hats (long story) and bought his first road bike - a Trek 1.1 that was quickly relegated to winter steed, before it was sadly pinched a few years later. Creatively replacing it with a Trek 1.2, Jack mostly rides this bike around local cycle paths nowadays, but when he wants to get the racer out and be competitive his preferred events are time trials, sportives, triathlons and pogo sticking - the latter being another long story.
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The middle of Saturday's stage has some tight and twisty descending with sketchy road surfaces.
Cross fingers and hope it stays dry for these guys ...
Yates yelling at Prudhomme = every single british commuter cyclist "discussing" a close pass
Wow, TdF stage stopped and a retraction and apology from BTBS, what a day!
Ok, later video shows it's a lot, lot worse than the initial light dusting, apologies to the French local authorities and my slight to sagan, this was correct.
If they wanted to ride through what I'm watching, they are daft as a brush.
Even God doesn't want to see a French winner. Praise be to God!
Race STOPPED due to inclement weather/road conditions. Race radio is saying result is as per the top of the L'Iseran!!
Bernal in yellow!
Seems that the typical of the French they couldn't actually sweep a light covering of snow from the road.lol
Well Peter Sagan has got his way, extreme weather condition protocol and the race/stage has been cancelled ... well done son, none of the riders wanted to stop!
I take it you've never tried to take a train, tube, aeroplane, bus or car journey when it's snowed in England...
Shame about Pinot.
Good job that photographer was wearing a helmet - there was a car dooring as well as a kick and a shove.
I bet it won't be snowing on the L'Iseran today, this was two of our group on 12th August just a scant 17 days later in the year, was snowing virtually from the bottom from Val D'Isere, shame because that really would have caused carnage! They did it the opposite way with C.d.Cenis after L'iseran so coming the way the TdF is means 1306m altitude gain over 30km from Lanslevillard @1458m to top of CdL @2764m, in old money that's 228ft/mile!
it's going to be brutal this deep into the race, no wonder Dowsett was out the back after only a few km, it's going to be a long, long day for him!
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Send these products back and make sure they know why you are doing so.
Plastic is so cheap and useful that the only way companies will change is if their bottom lines are impacted.
As for the tour I've been a spectator a couple of times and was pretty disgusted at the amount of tat that was given away. These demands to end this are spot on.
Oversize packing pisses me off. Getting a sd card in something that won't fit through the letterbox....aaarrrhgghhhh. Amazon are worst for this.
Try ordering from John Lewis. They are completely over the top with their packaging. I recently ordered a pair of scissors. They came wrapped in bubble wrap in a box 18" by 12", completely full of bubble wrap.
Companies obsession with plastic is ridiculous.
I ordered a box of Lucho Dillitos because it was cheaper than buying several individual packs and I love that they come wrapped in a biodegradable leaf.
Open the box and its 27 squares individually wrapped in plastic.
Was at the tour the other year and everything thrown from the caravan was wrapped in plastic. All low grade toot as well.
That beefeater video is smiletastic! Then.. dinosaur!