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GP Wallonie Screen Shot 2.pngVideo: Pootler strays into finish of GP Wallonie
Want evidence that everyday cycling and cycle sport can get along even at the highest level? Take a look at this clip from the closing stages of yesterday's GP Wallonie.
As the riders round a bend in the final kilometre they encounter a cyclist on an upright bike pootling along the road.
But it's just another day at the office for the pros, who take evasive action as the rider realises there's a peloton bearing down at 50km/h and gets out of the way.
Here's a Vine clip of the moment:
And more extensive coverage from Eurosport via YouTube:
Maybe certain people in Surrey and the New Forest need to have a look at this shining example of peaceful co-existence.
John has been writing about bikes and cycling for over 30 years since discovering that people were mug enough to pay him for it rather than expecting him to do an honest day's work.
He was heavily involved in the mountain bike boom of the late 1980s as a racer, team manager and race promoter, and that led to writing for Mountain Biking UK magazine shortly after its inception. He got the gig by phoning up the editor and telling him the magazine was rubbish and he could do better. Rather than telling him to get lost, MBUK editor Tym Manley called John’s bluff and the rest is history.
Since then he has worked on MTB Pro magazine and was editor of Maximum Mountain Bike and Australian Mountain Bike magazines, before switching to the web in 2000 to work for CyclingNews.com. Along with road.cc founder Tony Farrelly, John was on the launch team for BikeRadar.com and subsequently became editor in chief of Future Publishing’s group of cycling magazines and websites, including Cycling Plus, MBUK, What Mountain Bike and Procycling.
John has also written for Cyclist magazine, edited the BikeMagic website and was founding editor of TotalWomensCycling.com before handing over to someone far more representative of the site's main audience.
He joined road.cc in 2013. He lives in Cambridge where the lack of hills is more than made up for by the headwinds.
OK, now I'm really worried !!...
Perhaps you could start the balling rolling by providing an example of such an article, divesting some of your vast knowledge and experience?
FTFY
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