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Groundbreaking?

Some of you are probably already aware of our link up with the Biketreks Racing Team. Today we thought we would take the opportunity to remind everyone again about how we work with them, whilst at the same time alerting you to their sparkly new website.

Essentially, by signing up with the code BIKETREKS you are able to try out our coffee for free, you then only continue if you love us (which of course we hope you do). For each of these ‘sign ups’ we then make a cash donation to the team to help them progress.

So if you love coffee and you love cycling get involved today right here

The eightpointnine team

Sun still shining (!), Sitting in garden with a beer and catching up on reading some stuff. Nice.

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Sun still shining (!), Sitting in garden with a beer and catching up on reading some stuff. Nice.

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Windy in Scotland!

(Credit: BBC News)

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I am a "cyclist"

It makes perfect sense... ;-)

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#cycling #humour #video #xtranormal

Coffee & Cake lovers: The Music Room now opens on Sundays!

Ian, aka @coffeehopper of Atkinsons tea and coffee fame tells me that the best coffee place around Lancaster and surroundings now opens on Sundays. It has made my day.

GO THERE. It's on Sun Street.

http://themusicroomcafe.com/

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#cake #coffee #lancaster

Mohawkvember - 1st public appearances

please let this not be in vain... donate to Dan and Dave Mo(hawk)vember pages. They are are growing the proper lip fluff to support men's health.

http://uk.movember.com/mospace/1801544/

http://uk.movember.com/mospace/1494222/

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Mohawkvember

Did the Mo last year, even kept it for two months. All good fun to raise money for a good cause. I am not growing a fluffy upper lip again thisyear but in the spirit of things I'll be keeping a mohican Travis Bickle style for November.

Mates Dan and Dave are growing the proper stuff so head to their fundraising page and support their facial hair:

http://uk.movember.com/mospace/1801544/ http://uk.movember.com/mospace/1494222/

Teamwork...

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3 peaks cyclocross 2011

Photo by Andy Holden

Many accounts of this year's 3 Peaks Cyclocross race are coming out left, right and centre. Dave Haygarth is doing a superb job at linking to the many blogs, videos and photo galleries covering the event. Check out http://3pcx.blogspot.com/ for getting inspired.

There is even a report compiled by John covering the Peaks from the team's perspective. See http://www.biketreksracing.com/biketreks-racing-team-tackle-the-3-peaks

But, how was it for me? TOUGH. The results don't lie. 5h11min. I was slow, very slow. However, off-road riding has never been my forte. The lack of experience was obvious. To be quite honest, I can't imagine completing his without having put some hours of Peaks specific training.

Road sections: Brilliant. In my element. Ridable Off-road sections : Not too bad. Grovelling up unridable sections up the fells? VERY VERY SLOW. Descents: VERY VERY SLOW.

Difficult to comprehend this race really. It's unique. Did I enjoy myself? mmm... I'd say enjoyment is a strong word. It was an interesting journey in discovering new sets of aching muscles. The question is will I do it again? most definitely. I am eating my words as I was adamant that it would be a one-off.

The 3 Peaks bug has been caught. Ingleborough, Whernside, Pen-Y-Ghent: See you all next year.

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Ventoux

Good rides in Provence borrowing my dad's Cannondale CAAD9. I tried to get on the bike every day and starting to incorporate some running and carrying of bikes in preparation for the 3 peaks. No idea how that will translate into race fitness for CDNW Dolphinholme and Oakenclough. Nonetheless riding was good and enjoyable. I improvised routes incorporated some new roads each time. One regret is running out of days to get on with cycling over Grand Luberon.

Ventoux was on the menu. 5 ascents of the Géant in total. four on in a little less that 9 hours (REPORT). Another time was to see how fast I could climb from Bédoin. Strange ascent. No wind / little wind pushing clouds from the South West at Bédoin then wind turned and MIstral got in the way. Anyhow, I completed the climb in 1h25. I hoped to have gone faster but it wasn't to be! I enjoyed riding at a good tempo spinning a nice gear.

On the same day of the "fast" climb, I got up at 3:30am to take some pictures from the top of Ventoux at dawn. The result is a set of pictures:

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Site for the Blogroll: Velocast Journal

One piece of good news in this Novermber-like Summer's day: "Velocast Scott" is back - Back on twitter and in the guise of a Tumblr blog appropriately entitled The Velocat Journal.

http://velocast.tumblr.com/

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Lakeland Pedlar Cafe Review

Here is a review submitted to Louise McCall (McCake?)'s site Patisserie Cyclisme

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Lakeland Pedlar Cafe

Description:

Located right in the Centre of Keswick the Lakeland Pedlar Vegetarian Wholefood cafe/restaurant with a bike shop on 1st floor.

Route taken:

Lancaster - Levens - Bowness - Ambleside - Grasmere - Dunmail Raise - Thirlmere - Keswick - Whinlatter - Lorton - Buttermere - Honister - Keswick and back to Lancaster. Ride report and photos: http://lunercc.org.uk/edgar-ride-2011-report

Website: http://www.lakelandpedlar.co.uk/

What did we have?

Coffees, teas, organic cola (good bottle refill diluted with water!)

Date slices, Hummus toasties, bowl of olives, 3-bean burrito

How was it?

Good tasty food, friendly staff. Waiting for table, getting the orders through and served as well as the time required to eat through the massive portion made this the longest cafe stop we could envisage. Downside: Bacon cravings will not be fulfilled :-)

Cost/Value for money

Expensive as far as cycling cafes are concerned but that's OK. This place is quite special.

Facilities for cyclists

Well furnished and friendly bike shop on 1st floor. cycle parking limited to leaving bikes by the side alley.

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#Cafe #cafe stop #cycling #edgar ride #food #keswick

One for the Blogroll / RSS Reader: "Thinking about cycling" by Dave Horton

A plug for Lancastrian / sustainable transport thinker / uni lecturer / cyclist / nice guy Dave Horton's blog: http://thinkingaboutcycling.wordpress.com/

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#blogging #blogroll #cycling

First Aid for Cyclists by Steve Evans (@paramedicsteve)

Paramedic and cyclist Steve Evans (aka @paramedicsteve on twitter) put together a set of slides aimed at cyclists to increase awareness about basic first aid when out cycling. First aid courses typically cover the worplace environment and tend to focus on typical office environment hazards but this is quite different. I think any cyclists, clubs and groups of cyclists alike would benefit from having a look through those slides. Feel free to pass the presentation around. Copyright is Steve's but he's keen to have it distributed as broadly as possible.

Nic

PS: I know... I have already posted this on the Lune RCC website but different audiences etc... :-)

firstaid.pps Download this file

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