mountainloz
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as a slight side note, i was having a little chat with Chris Boardman yesterday, great down to earth bloke 
and a fantastic bike range
and a fantastic bike range
BBC 1 now, The Flying Scotsman
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rosstheboss
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Iwasgoodonce":zw4r619g said:
I remember reading a letter in a magazine a few years back, the chap was asking what sort of training he should do as he wanted to enter the TDF, the reply was genius....
Ride at least 20,000 miles a year for the next five years and you MIGHT finish
A friend of mine who is a very handy triathlete did a stage of the tour a few years back ( on open roads, not the actual race! ) and was absolutley fubared afterwards, he left with a whole load more respect for the tour riders!!!
one-eyed_jim
Old School Grand Master
One of the online magazines published that error recently in an article about Obree. I wrote to them with a correction, but they didn't respond, or change the article.Tazio":rfm2z2nt said:
Here's an extract from my letter. The initial quote is from the Obree article:
"That record lasted only a week as Englishman Chris Boardman improved on Obree's effort in Bordeaux, France during a rest day of that year's Tour de France."
A casual reader might form the impression that Boardman was actually competing in the Tour in 1993 when he broke the hour record. The record ride didn't actually take place on a rest day (it was on July 23rd; the rest day had been in the Pyrenees on the 20th) and Boardman didn't ride in the Tour until 1994. The record attempt *was* scheduled for the day of the Tour's arrival in Bordeaux to generate interest in Boardman (who was still an amateur) among professional team managers.
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