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Dance the Devil Back into his hole
I always feel like a bit of a fraud when someone dies. If it’s someone I didn’t really know or didn’t know at all.
Like a cyclist. When Gino Mader died. Or Muriel Furrer. Or Antoine Demoitié.
I didn’t know these people personally. Of cour...
6: Alpe d'Huez - Cycling's Greatest Climb by Peter Cossins
Alpe d’Huez. It’s back in the Tour. Twice! They’ll go up it properly tomorrow (24th July) and then they go up the shite side which doesn’t really count on Saturday.
With that in mind, it felt timely to excavate this one from the archives....
Never trust a cyclist
What did Jeff Bernard do?
Twitter used to be a genuinely exciting and reasonably nice place to be. It was, for me, the place where I realised that there was no barrier anymore to communicating directly with someone. You didn’t need to know...
The 1,000th Tour de France stage
Shame on me
What an ignorant twat I am. What an arse. What a dismissive pig of a cycling fan.
The Shape of the Stat
And other things
I used to record episodes of They Think It’s All Over on video tape while I was asleep and then watch them in the morning. This was back when people knew how to set the timer to record on VHS recorders. I never did get int...
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