Robert Winder

We woke late and only had a short amount of time before putting the nose the grindstone and ekeing out our living.
Joseph, Ruth, Mex and I rode to Peets at Heather Farms, Walnut Creek for our morning dose of the magical brew, we sat chatted together and chatted with others that we know. It [...]

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Calm winds, flat circuit… oh sorry, wrong race.
The wind is anything but calm when you’re by the Bay and the 4-corner flat circuit turned out to be a grinder climb and a downhill sprint. Much has already been said on Olaf’s page about Romans crash, it happened right in front of me, and I [...]

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So, I think Joel summed up this race pretty well:
Masters race was interesting, the field being small the pace was somewhat on the slow side. I took off from the gun to try to speed things up but never got a really big gap and the only taker was a Morgan Stanley rider who wasn’t [...]

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Like I said on Friday, Mex and Ruth were determined to put on a good showing for Team Winder. Its pretty amazing to think this was Margaret’s 25 start of the season, and Ruth’s 2nd start.
It was a great learning experience for both of them. From what I heard on the way home [...]

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Sunday is the Benicia Crit and here on Team Winder we’ve got 4 races going on, Mex & Ruth will be out for the W3/4 race. Ruth is tough and keen to race, this will be her first crit. Before you go all out on one, Ruth asked to race, we chatted about [...]

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Rant ON.
What is it with riders that will suck wheel all day on a training ride?
Why won’t they come to the front?
When will they do their fair share of the work?
Even when they get to the front they just sit up. Why?
When there is a gap opening, they come through and then immediately sit [...]

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We’re already at the second weekend of racing in September and from what I calculate there are only 5 races I can do that are left, excluding anything called Mt Something or Everest Something, because they’re not real races - just sufferfests that my poor non-climbers legs can’t handle.
So, I’m already starting to look at [...]

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The last couple of weeks we had the pleasure of riding with another Englishman, Ian Holt, and unlike me, he has class. He was introduced as a friend of Flavia’s and we rode together a couple of times whilst he was here. We won’t talk about the minor crash, because that would be [...]

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you’re too close to the back.
The story of the P12 race at the Giro is of fables, lore and handed down through the generations.
Having already done the 24 lap M35+ 123 race I decided to race again, must’ve been the great atmosphere, organisation, being downtown, oh and not being able to get home because the [...]

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With all the oldies, but still the best teams out for the fun of the downtown SF experience it felt disconcerting to be on the line with only one other team mate. Its been a familiar story this year.
Me and Chris C had talked, and both agreed to be attentive, hooking up with moves [...]

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