Robert Winder

Entries from July 2007

Lord Farquaad finally does it

July 28th, 2007 · No Comments

After all the huffing and puffing, will he, won’t he of the past 3 weeks Lord Farq… oh sorry, Levi Leipheimer finally gets the stage win.
Yes he did do an amazing ride, and he’s followed the right wheels for the past 10 days or so since the road started going up hill. Congratulations must […]

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Happy Birthday, Mex.

July 25th, 2007 · 1 Comment


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Cofidis gone now

July 25th, 2007 · No Comments

Another one bites the dust…
 

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Cycling 2.0

July 24th, 2007 · 1 Comment

I’ve decided we should have a "Cycling 2.0". Why me? Because I’m not a totally useless, bigoted, stuck in my ways, head in the sand, blame everyone else rather than accept responsibility man, thats why.
Cycling 2.0 will be a simple system.
It will be based on 2 fundamentals of our culture:

Peer to Peer statement […]

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Super Hero? - Not mine. Leave Now, please.

July 24th, 2007 · 1 Comment

www.cyclingnews.com presents the 94th Tour de France
Has there ever been anything more sickening in sport than a cheat? Fixing your bike with speed inducing components and weight saving gadgets is nothing. The cycling body has taken more time to fix the drug issue than it did to tell Graeme Obree that […]

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Warning

July 23rd, 2007 · No Comments


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Quiet Weekend

July 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

Nothing much to report this weekend. For once there was no racing for me or Mex, we both rode Saturday to Berkeley. On the motorbike. Got a parking ticket for being 5 minutes late. I wanted to go to the intro sessions at the track then stay for the racing, Saturday […]

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Ever met a nice South African?

July 19th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Did you see the last 1K crash at yesterdays finish in Montpellier? I studied the replay several times, well more like Mex wanted to see what happened, and who caused the crash.
It wasn’t obvious at first, but our friend Robbie Hunter did appear to take the corner way too fast and switched from inside […]

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Good discussions here

July 18th, 2007 · No Comments

Back to same

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Gotta have some fun…

July 18th, 2007 · 3 Comments

I went out with the boys from Expert Tree Service Youth Development team last night around the trails of Oakland Hills. Ruth & Joseph took me to show me off to the other kids.
I spent a good hour having my legs ripped off on my old mountain bike, they all had a good chuckle […]

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