Jacobite
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Tamb Cycling Thread
Jacobite replied to derekfaejapan's topic in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere
Good luck with Etape Royale on almost no training. I've been racing all year and wouldn't go near some of those hills.Aberdeen Wheelers do regular Sunday runs during the winter ,also a few triathletes in the club as well. -
Aye ,53 next week or so I'm told. I have competed at a fairly high level at masters in Italy and Denmark and I know one of the guys I raced against did get caught and banned. I'll stick to kendal mint cake and jelly babies though.(well maybe something a bit more technical but legal)
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They haven't invented the drug yet that would qualify me for out of competition testing.
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Exactly,the rules are supposed to be tight. I was racing on Sunday and did a quick check before leaving to see if there was a drug check.Now never in my 30 years of racing have I seen dope control at a race but they were there on Sunday. I wasn't required to pee in a bottle. But if I had left and was required it would have been a 2 year ban for missing a test at a wee event in the West of Scotland.No excuses would have got me out of it.
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Tamb Cycling Thread
Jacobite replied to derekfaejapan's topic in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere
And the most important part. What gear an old car required to get up the hill. -
Daily Heil Hits A New Low?
Jacobite replied to Cove_Sheep's topic in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere
It's not unusual in the NHS. Many staff will either do bank or agency shifts either within the NHS or private sector. -
Tamb Cycling Thread
Jacobite replied to derekfaejapan's topic in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere
The overlapping wheels is very important or you will at some point end up on the road along with a few others probably. -
Tamb Cycling Thread
Jacobite replied to derekfaejapan's topic in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere
Best to get off on the right foot right away. There are few things more unpopular in the bunch in winter than someone with no mudguards.And no one wants to be hanging off the back of the bunch. -
Tamb Cycling Thread
Jacobite replied to derekfaejapan's topic in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere
Still done more miles on the watt bike than the road bike,hope that changes soon. -
Tamb Cycling Thread
Jacobite replied to derekfaejapan's topic in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere
I haven't ridden a 12 hour since I was in my early 20s. So thats my target for this year. Maybe time or old age has made me forget just how brutal it was. -
Your Heritage
Jacobite replied to Ormond's topic in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere
Been doing this for years,Can get stuck for months and then one wee bit of information and your off again. Family name is a Galoglas name so originally Scottish before ending up in Co Cavan. Lot of ancestors from Galway,Mayo , Sligo and Dundee. Notable findings. One who served in the court of King James in Paris ,another who was a cavalry officer with Jacobite troops in the French army. One who was hung at the end of the 18th century for making pikes,and probably using them as well. However often it's the ones who have done nothing special who can be the most interesting to find. -
It doesn't matter how bad things get,how many folk use food banks,how many have their benefits cut and even how much lottery money is nicked we would still be told it would have been much much worse if we had voted YES. Who knows we might have surprised everyone and been able to sort the mess out ourselves.