Robert Winder

Saturdays race at Folsom was a drag, the circuit was short and the finishing straight with its slight uphill curve to the right was ok, in fact was perfect for my finish. Unfortunately, I let myself go and I got out of position on the last lap. I was pissed.
Then as we came [...]

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That Peets in Danville could be open as soon as this Wednesday… that’ll be a relief, but I won’t get to try it until after next weekend.

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BBC SPORT | Other Sport… | Cycling | Basso handed two-year doping ban
Will we ever see him again, or will he go the way of Tyler?
Personally I just don’t care. I want all the cheats off the bike, I want blood, sweat and tears to come before ecstacy of the win, not blood doping, [...]

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Apparently.
I won’t be doing much - mainly resting - not because its Fathers Day, but more in preparation for the big-E. Anyway, our team ride will be mixed up with a bunch of overweight, under-trained fathers that want to go ride the mountain twice to collect points "for fun". Then they’re [...]

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I’ve got it bad… Elkhorn is a week away and I can barely think about anything else.  This sucks.  I’m on the ‘taper’ towards the first stage next Friday, all this on top of the fact I said I’d never go back.  This year I’ve trained, raced and prepared for Elkhorn and I’m pretty desperate [...]

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Our usual recovery/pre-race ride is from home to Peets in Danville. The promise of early morning chat and coffee is enough to get us both out of bed before dawns rise. But the last 2 weeks has been interrupted because Peets is closed for renovations and this means we’ve got to find [...]

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Our 2nd team clothing order arrived yesterday complete with cock-ups galore.  The wrong shorts, sleeves in the sleeveless jerseys and everyone of the skin suits with the collars sewn inside out.  The quality sucks - when you add these issues to the fact that the chamois is already wearing thin on 2 of the 3 [...]

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Yesterday was a big day for two of my children, as Ruth and Joseph went on their first group ride.  Mex took them to meet with a local bike club that caters for younger kids.  They rode for about 10 miles in a small group.  Mex went with them and they also had a local [...]

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We’re counting down the weeks to the Lafayette Criterium and I heard a little rumour that we were due to have the "dumb blondes" again. For a team that claims to be masters focused with lots of little ones running around our team gatherings I felt having podium girls was inappropriate. So I [...]

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