Great teamwork on the Tempo ride
A well-matched group of seven left King's Square on a less oppressively hot day than recent days, A flat parcours and some lovely new tarmac encouraged the peloton to form up like a Jumbo Visma Team Time Trial. Excellent team work and rotation kept the group together,...
Tour of Britain
While grouping up outside Jane's Pantry in Twigworth, we saw the enormous Jumbo Visma team bus pass on its way to the start, with a smaller camper van belonging to Team Bingoal slipstreaming it. Obviously different teams have different budgets. A little later, another...
New lead-out team
With our lead-out men, Wout Van Aert and Rohan Dennis absent, leadout duties fell to Lizzie Deignan and Kasia Niewiadoma, and they did a fine job up Stroud Road, through Haresfield and on to Stonehouse. At Coaley, we thought we had lost a rider, so the leader retraced...
Riding with antipodians
After some discussion as to whether the ride was A or AA, ten set off from the square proceeding up the A38 to Quedgeley, then via Severnvale Drive to Naas Lane roundabout. After passing the police station and Quedgeley Pond, we took the cycle path through Hunts...