Roads around Gap SUCK

John Rees said:

Seeing the pictures of Cañada, Verbrugghe and Kessler really made me
wince. Especially the Belgian. Then I remembered that another rider
really got messed up on 'sticky tar' a few years ago. Beloki. My
suggestion: If you're gonna ride in France, stay the hell out of Gap.
Either there are 'mob' type contracts on the road works or they just get
their materials from whatever the French equivalent is of the Wal-Mart
home and garden center. You'd think they would have learned from last
time.

i was thinking, it's like Gap has a curse on it or something. Like Le
Pur En Velay- every time they do a stage there in Paris Nice, something
terrible happens. Kivilev died, and then the next time they did a stage
there it was cancelled because of snow (hardly on the same scale,
admittedly). But it's like the Bermuda triangle or something!

Donald Munro said:

Marlene Blanshay said:

But it's like the Bermuda triangle or something!

They have freak magnetic forces there. It pulls bikes off the road.

but those carbon bikes have so little metal, and what metal they have is
aluminum or titanium.......

John Rees said:

Seeing the pictures of Cañada, Verbrugghe and Kessler really made me
wince. Especially the Belgian. Then I remembered that another rider
really got messed up on 'sticky tar' a few years ago. Beloki. My
suggestion: If you're gonna ride in France, stay the hell out of Gap.
Either there are 'mob' type contracts on the road works or they just get
their materials from whatever the French equivalent is of the Wal-Mart
home and garden center. You'd think they would have learned from last time.

Sure enough, if you fall off, blame the road. The road has been there for years, if you cannot read the road properly, then expect to fall off.
There is no such thing as a dangerous road as they just sit there doing nothing but exist, the users are the dangerous ones and even professional riders occasionally get caught out.
Deal with it, I have to when I gat it wrong, and nobody calls the road dangerous when I fall, it is "lack of experience" on my part and I accept that, i make teh wrong judgements sometimes and it ends up skinning my bum, i accept that, sometimes i just go stupid chasing somebody in front of me and straight out "stuff it up" i accept that.
So should riders in the Tour.
So should you.

Ro
P.S. I have noticed the best riders in the world never actually ride a bike.

Marlene Blanshay said:

But it's like the Bermuda triangle or something!

They have freak magnetic forces there. It pulls bikes off the road.

Ro said:

There is no such thing as a dangerous road

Since I'm talking to the humor impaired, I will say it appears you've
never ice skated on newly oiled tarmac. Or tried to race across new
gravel leveled to hide the ruts underneath. I never really got the
hang of racing in gravel with sewups.

Now if you throw in farm roads with cultivators across both lanes on a
downhill, it goes up a notch.

Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels...

john said:

Donald Munro said:

Marlene Blanshay said:

But it's like the Bermuda triangle or something!

They have freak magnetic forces there. It pulls bikes off the road.

but those carbon bikes have so little metal, and what metal they have is
aluminum or titanium.......

This is no ordinary magnet.

They didn't go flying off the road like that back in the steel-frame days.

There must be more.

Some unexplained un - sub - super - natural phenomenon.

<cue whoo whoo music>

Ron

RonSonic said:

john said:

Donald Munro said:

Marlene Blanshay wrote:

>But it's like the Bermuda triangle or something!

They have freak magnetic forces there. It pulls bikes off the road.

but those carbon bikes have so little metal, and what metal they have is
aluminum or titanium.......

This is no ordinary magnet.

They didn't go flying off the road like that back in the steel-frame days.

There must be more.

Some unexplained un - sub - super - natural phenomenon.

<cue whoo whoo music>

Ron

ROFL