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Sylvain Chavanel with Bastille Day EMX 5 2 © TDW photoTour Tech 2011: Chavanel's Bastille Day bike
It's Bastille Day, and that means plenty of jingoistic flag waving and obligatory French riders in the break trying to bring the stage home pour l'hexagone – Kadri, Mangel and Roy wear the burden of France's expectation for the moment. And French road race champ Sylvain Chavanel will be wearing the tricolore with pride today, across his chest and also on his specially painted Merckx EMX-5.
Yup, Chavanel's among the riders with a custom paintjob today (more on Voeckler's special bike soon), a patriotic red, white and blue affair with his nickname, 'La Machine', emblazoned on the seat tube. White finishing kit, bar tape and lever hoods complete the look; let's hope it isn't a muddy one today, eh. And at least one member of the road.cc office is hoping that he takes that special bike and points it uphill, at speed, to both honour the French nation and land some big Fantasy Cycling points...
Dave is a founding father of road.cc, having previously worked on Cycling Plus and What Mountain Bike magazines back in the day. He also writes about e-bikes for our sister publication ebiketips. He's won three mountain bike bog snorkelling World Championships, and races at the back of the third cats.
" Pogačar even dismissing the practice as a “pretty simple test” "...
I was thinking that may have been influential in deciding whether or not she could weather the storm, which annoys me, but on balance it's right...
I came here after reading that, could not believe it.
My word, the comments don't get any better the further back in time the articles are.
It happens so often that people need to drive expecting it to happen. People walk / jog across the road without looking all the time, particularly...
Yep, I appreciate your problem. I wouldn't buy a bike without at least sitting on the same frame configuration on a trainer in the shop, something...
One less thing to clutter up your jersey pockets no? Though difficult to retrieve in a hurry...
was it one of these? https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202411246675771?
Houchen is utterly corrupt and morally bankrupt, as readers of Private Eye know all too well.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd7n1l72j9wo