Londron - Paris 2009 (June 25th - 27th)

aidandoyle

Hello there,

I am RAAMs older, shorter, very definitely heavier but equally bike-infatuated brother. This Thurday - Saturday I will be cycling the 3-day London - Paris tour (www.londres-paris.com). I was wondering if anyone else on this forum will also be doing it? If so, it would be nice to exchange details and meet over there.

Raam

Good luck bro!

DirkVoodoo

Good luck Aidan, will you be taking your brother's white cervelo??

aidandoyle

Why go Cervélo when you can ride Pinarello

nitrogen

Looks like a cool event, but they sure know how to charge.

DirkVoodoo

aidandoyle wrote: »

Why go Cervélo when you can ride Pinarello

noice :cool:

Diarmuid

Best of luck with that Aidan. Looks like you are going to have to bring along your autograph book
Here's a pic of the two of us at the start of l'Epervier. Unfortunately I'm blocking a good view of the Pinarello.

(I shall be ignoring all remarks about Euro violations. I was younger and didn't know any better)

Raam

I know this thing ain't a race, but...

Whoopah!

Group Name Rider No
1 1 Andy TINSLEY 111 00:08:46
1 2 James WAITE 29 00:08:47
1 3 Chris HOLMES 44 00:08:47
1 4 Andrew GUY 110 00:08:48
1 5 James STUART 27 00:08:49
1 6 Paul BAILEY 318 00:08:50
1 7 Mark SINCLAIR 7 00:08:51
1 8 Guy PEARSON 24 00:08:51
3 9 Aidan DOYLE 137 00:08:54
3 10 Sam BAXTER 216 00:08:54

aidandoyle

Yeah, great fun. It went well for the timed section of stage 1. Stephan Roche finished in 34th I think and Scott Sutherland in 35th. So I guess 10th place was good - the first 9 and pretty much all of the top 30 were category 1 with some Cat. 2 racers.

Stage 2 timed section was a wash out - only one of the four official groups reached it before the conditions were dangerous - we were allowed to race it but the other groups were not. Either way I was happy cos I crossed the line first with two other lads, we were 1 minutes ahead of 4th and about 9 minutes ahead of the main bunch. I count that as a win.

Stage 3: our group ride captain informed us that in the interest of getting everyone to Paris safely he would not be allowing us to race the timed section ( still he let us sprint the last 600m - crossed the line first again )

Great cycle, best thing was I was told by the group captain that I should get a license and really race. He said I could survive in Cat. 2 ..... made my day.

Would recommend this ride to anyone, even though it is on the pricey side.

Raam

I know you said there were floods, but, woh!


http://www.londres-paris.com/site/html/liveupdates/photogallery260609.php

blorg

Well done Aidan, looks like a great event. Your name can be added to the growing list of boardsies that have beaten Stephen Roche, I think Diarmuid had the hop on you there

Diarmuid

Just spotted a YooToob vid about the London Paris. Didn't spot Aidan. WARNING: The sound needs to be muted. Brutal song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zXQ0ZYxWqk

Vélo

aidandoyle wrote: »

Hello there,

I am RAAMs older, shorter, very definitely heavier but equally bike-infatuated brother. .

Just as well really!!!!