{"id":1868,"date":"2012-07-06T13:41:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T13:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2012-07-18T17:43:44","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T17:43:44","slug":"tnr-5-7-2-12-tdf-stage-1-den-engles-keep-us-dry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/?p=1868","title":{"rendered":"TNR 5-7-2-12 TdF Stage 1 – Den Engles keep us dry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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From TNR 05-07-2012 TDF #1 – after Light Room<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Team TNR El Pres, El Pud, Slim, Butty, Coley, Dan, Stunt<\/p>\n

Route: BL, Gawsworth, National cycleway route 55 along the cheshire lanes to Congleton, Biddulph valley way, Biddulph Moor, Brown Edge, Leek. Main Macc road back.<\/p>\n

Conditions: Warm and Sunny to start, menacing clouds later \u2013 but dry other than wet roads back.<\/p>\n

Stats: Another slow puncture for Slim<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Notes: <\/p>\n

Skinny tyred roadie behaviour whilst Wiggo and the boys battle it out in France.<\/p>\n

El Pres shows off his carbon On One crosser (still on flats though- you can take the boy out of the<\/p>\n

mountains\u2026)<\/p>\n

An annoying section on main roads (well annoying to rude 4×4 & Mercedes drivers) led us to the<\/p>\n

relative quiet of the back lanes (a good few speeding madmen here too!)<\/p>\n

El Pud relishes his domestique duties with taking food orders, and map reading. We finally avoid<\/p>\n

cars altogether on the Biddulph Valley way (although real roadies would have been shocked to be<\/p>\n

riding on earth paths with real mud!)<\/p>\n

Pace ticks along nicely while its flat (we need to be at Den Engels fairly early to get food) \u2013 but we<\/p>\n

have a couple of category 4 climbs to complete before then!<\/p>\n

Butty(the Manc Missile) and (King of the Moutains) Dan get geeky on Strava sections, and El pres<\/p>\n

wishes for an MTB rear cassette.<\/p>\n

Cresting Biddulph Moor we see unholy weather unfolding on the hills towards Macc, and dash into<\/p>\n

Leek like the all day breakaways trying not to get caught just before the finish.<\/p>\n

Skies darken alarmingly and a few drops fall as we reach the sanctuary of the Den Engels thirsty and<\/p>\n

dry.<\/p>\n

Belgian beer lubricates the conversation rapidly (5:2 Wheat beer to dark), Proper portions of Belgian<\/p>\n

Beef, Quiche, Scampi or Pirahna (Trout!?), weather radars are consulted to justify staying for a third<\/p>\n

rather than risk catching up the rain riding back.<\/p>\n

We find Leek CC are in need of the TNR spirit as a very ragged chain gang head back… to be brutally<\/p>\n

bossed by a bearded U boat Captain!<\/p>\n

Apart from a few big puddles causing Japanese style splashing \ud83d\ude09 Team TNR avoid incident (despite the potholes) and post a very respectable team time trial time back to macc…rehydration and bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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For the record 3 sheds did a solo knobbly ride early doors and was back before the rain for tea and<\/p>\n

medals from the lovely Sharon (or at least that\u2019s what his text suggested!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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