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Thread: Your Summer Sporting Fix

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    Your Summer Sporting Fix

    Although we can't truly relax on the footy front, Derby being Derby, there's got to be something else to occupy our tiny minds over the summer months, from the POV of either watching or participating

    Me? Due to a medical condition its all watching for me at the mo

    t'Krikkit obviously, looking forward to this 100 mullarkey as a neutral, maybe great, maybe crap we'll see

    Road Cycling, well and truly back into it these days despite not being able to cycle to the end of my drive (nb out of condition, not a long drive!)

    F1, looks like Lewis has some competition this year and enjoying the other two Brits' development

    US Roundy roundy motor racing, Indy 500 this weekend, and although I'm a critic of female sport (or at least of people who consider females to be competitive with males in sports such as footy and cricket) I'm rooting for Swiss racer Simone De Silvestre who qualified (with mainly female pit crew) for The Great Race

    Olympics, sort of

    Euros

    Golf

    Anyone?

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    Out on me bike unless it's inclement weather. Some swimming, the pools are finally open again. Do some training so the legs can stand up to 90 minutes of reffing once the local footie season starts.

    Euros but only the odd game (Eng/Ned), not the lot like I used to. Olympics if they go ahead. F1.

    That's it.

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    Spectating...Cricket, RL, Euros, Lions, Tour de France, Olympics (major bits).

    Participating...Walking...more likely to be interrupted by the lunchtime pub this year...miscellaneous training and football/cricket activities.

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    Unfortunately, it's what I'd like to and what I can!
    Like to:
    Get my Merc out (bike not car), give it a good clean, sort out the Mafac
    brakes /Campag 12 speed and Simplex changer/fit new rubbers/get the gear on and bomb round the countryside before nipping up the golf club and knocking that pill round followed by a pint or two in the bar!
    Will do:
    Sit on my fat arse watching all sorts of sport with a can or two dreaming of doing the above!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by macstheman View Post
    Unfortunately, it's what I'd like to and what I can!
    Like to:
    Get my Merc out (bike not car), give it a good clean, sort out the Mafac
    brakes /Campag 12 speed and Simplex changer/fit new rubbers/get the gear on and bomb round the countryside before nipping up the golf club and knocking that pill round followed by a pint or two in the bar!
    Will do:
    Sit on my fat arse watching all sorts of sport with a can or two dreaming of doing the above!!
    Mine's a Guerciotti Alero 20 speed, alu frame, carbon forks and a joy to ride.

    Forgot to mention watching the TdF... thanks for the reminder rA.

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    Sounds mouth watering MA. The Merc's nearly 60 years old now but the Reynolds531 frame still looks smart despite the years and the odd pile up when doing time trials with Derby Mercury. It was built by Tom Crowther and is testament to Mercian's quality at that time. I've still got many of the original parts with a couple of wheels hanging in the dining room.
    The whole bike is in bits at the moment as I was going to give it a good 'going over' about twenty years ago! I've got an old Ford Escort RS on an H plate in much the same dismantled state of rebuild! One day.......who knows!

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    Mac, like me, it's all a matter of getting a round tuit. I can help you there...............

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    Quote Originally Posted by MadAmster View Post
    Mine's a Guerciotti Alero 20 speed, alu frame, carbon forks and a joy to ride.

    Forgot to mention watching the TdF... thanks for the reminder rA.
    Used to cycle everywhere when I was a kid. Tbh I wouldn’t fancy it now what with the state of the roads, the amount of traffic and the fact that I no longer bounce!
    Seems to be a very different attitude to cycling and cyclists in Europe which in Northern France, Holland, Belgium and Northern Germany must be partly down to terrain.
    Imo those who compete in the TdF and the like are amongst the fittest, finest and bravest athletes to be found anywhere in the world of sport.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ramAnag View Post
    Used to cycle everywhere when I was a kid. Tbh I wouldn’t fancy it now what with the state of the roads, the amount of traffic and the fact that I no longer bounce!
    Seems to be a very different attitude to cycling and cyclists in Europe which in Northern France, Holland, Belgium and Northern Germany must be partly down to terrain.
    Imo those who compete in the TdF and the like are amongst the fittest, finest and bravest athletes to be found anywhere in the world of sport.
    Plus the abundance of cycle lanes/paths here in NL.

    With regard to the fitness of pro cyclists, they are indeed very fit as are rowers, water polo players and others. There have been a lot of doping cases in pro cycling and very many have been caught and banned. There is a suspicion that it is still happening and that it's impossible to win without some kind of "chemical assistance". This is fuelled by the way they perform at the top of their game day in and day out for 90% of the year. Take the Tdf, for instance. They race at top speed for just over 3 weeks with 2 rest days in there. With the exception of the time trial, the stages are between 150Km and 250Km with the shorter ones being mainly up hills, some very steep ones as well and they go up them as fast as I can go on the flat. What do they do on their rest day? A training ride of 120Km to 150Km. That begs the question "how can they do it, to that level, every day if they're not on something?". They get regularly tested throughout the race but, as Armstrong proved, tests can't detect the latest developed substances. I admire what they do BUT there is always that grey area of "How on earth can they without......?". A shadow/cloud that may never disappear.

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    When I was involved in some 'serious' cycling we relied on a few stiff coffees with plenty of sugar, about a dozen sugar lumps usually, to give us a boost!! Then then a few bananas kept us going.
    How innocent were we??
    I've got a couple of 'round tuits' MA, they don't seem to work anymore, this seems preferrable 😴!!

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