The Man needs no introduction…read this, it’s from his Strava ride notes…I think he should be a bike blogger don’t you?
You’ve got the bloody thing taking up space in the spare bedroom, it’s raining, why aren’t you on it?
ahhh ma cherie I murmured, that same thought crossed my mind not a nanosecond ago, but I am of course most grateful for your kind words of encouragement …
with a patently false, devil may care expression attached to the bon visage, I creaked my way up the stairs and proceeded to get it on!
But before you get on it, you need, a bottle, a towel, your expensive shoes with the pro cleats, 2 new batteries for the Garmin Vectors (shoulda changed them last time) the laptop, two boxes to stand the laptop on, the bedside cabinet, and the wifi booster thing.
Suitably armed, climb aboard and get on with it – well not quite yet because the reason that you aren’t getting any resistance even in the big gear, is that you didn’t clip the wheel to the flywheel before you started, so, climb off do that, get back on and pedal … Oh shit I forgot to start the f***ing video of the German chap riding Liege B Liege with his mates, in the rain, last year, so I have to hang out over the handlebars holding on with one hand and attempt to fire up the laptop with the other, find Favourites, click on the vid, sit back down and …. Christ! I think I might have twisted my knee doing that …..
and so it went on – but I did eventually get in the zone and managed to crank out an hour’s worth at 30kph, so that’s only just over 200km of the LBL still do do AND IT’S BLOODY HILLY by the look of the video, yer man on screen was pedalling single figure kph for lots of it and the profile is very jagged – hmmm – better think seriously about the lardshedding eh!
Perhaps not today though as one of LBN’s exquisite Thai green curries is on the lunch menu …
Good to finally hear from the The Man with no name. Sure I’ve come across him somewhere over the past 44 years – or am I getting confused with a Clint Eastwood movie?!
Looking forward to the English version.