L'Etape du Tour.
- Thread starter Z Victor 1
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Total respect Ken
Impressive Ken, loving the Colnago your on. Still got it?
It was a Colnago Tecnos, the following year I crashed heavily on a fast descent above Almunecar in Spain bending the frame, so no don't have it. Nasty slide down the road, skin and lycra are no match for rough tarmac!
I've been cycling since 2015, after years away from it. I started again to help "chaperone'' some college students on a ride from the Gulf of Mexico to the Texas-New Mexico border. I have done a "birthday ride" every year riding my age in miles, doing 80 miles this year. 3 years ago I did a ride from Texas to Colorado, but had a crash just short of Kansas that cracked my shin, bruised my shoulder and chest, and removed skin and blood from my legs and hands. Concrete and exposed skin don't do well together. With the heat at the moment, my rides start at the crack of dawn and stop at 20-30 miles, before it gets too hot.
- Joined
- Dec 19, 2018
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- 145
- Location
- Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
- Model of Z
- Z4 E89 20i sdrive roadster
When I first got my motorbike (the first one, an old Honda 750 Four, to learn to ride on), I was told you can't ride properly until you've kissed the tar. The only real question is, how hard . . .
Which is why I now have a steel pin in my right leg and a piece of my front wheel in my bedside drawer (if a Toyota Corolla can't kill me, nothing can).
I still like the look of a Suzuki 1100 GSX (the first ones) whenever I see one though . . .
Glad you recovered well Ken . . .
