Sprinting For Signs

Due to a lot of issues with my site I have been unable to update for ages! So I created a another website on the blogger format. Click on the image below and it'll take you to it. Once Eurobike is over I'll get it all sorted.

Happy Riding

Rich

Paris Roubaix is the meeting point where all cyclists can congregate. Truly it is the broad church of cycling brought together for one day. It strikes an accord with riders on different levels.

© Cycling Weekly/SfS

Hands up I am guilty. Guilty of not telling you about the great treasure chest we have in the UK. What am I talking about, riding in the lanes of the Great British Isles? Pick any county in the country and add a couple of local cyclists and voilà a great day out is guaranteed.

Happy Birthday SfS

May 24th 2008 was my first post on the site it was entitled What to carry on a Sportive you can read it here if you have never been that far back in the archives.

© Sprinting for Signs

Following on from Fridays film, here is another to keep you going until the action starts on Eurosport today. This is from the 'Greatest Show on Earth' another classic cycling film.

The Giro had always been a hard man's race. This exert from 'Stars and Water Carriers'gives a good idea of why. Enjoy the Friday Film fest.

Here we are at the second rest day, and after yesterdays stage no doubt much needed. When you read (on Twitter, where else!) that the Pros think it was one of the hardest days ever, with the epic Plateau de Beille being mentioned in the same breath.

Like thousands of people around the Globe I am now on Twitter. I am sure that I am not alone in using it to keep up with riders and racers. For those guys it gives them a quick and easy way to keep the world at large informed.

So what am I twittering about then. More cycling and general life ramblings. Will it be interesting, read, will anyone care, who knows. I won't be ditching the site as this gives a much wider platform to play with.

So if you're interested search under sprinting4signs and get in touch.

Cheers Rich

© Tim De Waele
So good was the Early Season Classics campaign I am only now suffering from the dreaded "pave bonk'. It is difficult to say which decade has seen the best races, on a whole it would be close between the 70's and the 80's. Don't get me wrong each year produces one or two great races that will live on in cycling folklore for ever, and will fuel many a cold evening over a beer or two.

When the Giro route was announced it looked crazy, at times brutal and many commentators said 'it is made for Lance'. I never bought into that as I know the Italians are smart in getting Armstrong there (for an estimated 2 million Euro fee!), but at the end of the day if an Italian is in pink come Rome the organisers will have done a good job.