Arriving at road.cc in 2017 via 220 Triathlon Magazine, Jack dipped his toe in most jobs on the site and over at eBikeTips before being named the new editor of road.cc in 2020, much to his surprise. His cycling life began during his students days, when he cobbled together a few hundred quid off the back of a hard winter selling hats (long story) and bought his first road bike - a Trek 1.1 that was quickly relegated to winter steed, before it was sadly pinched a few years later. Creatively replacing it with a Trek 1.2, Jack mostly rides this bike around local cycle paths nowadays, but when he wants to get the racer out and be competitive his preferred events are time trials, sportives, triathlons and pogo sticking - the latter being another long story.
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Apparently, someone's written Free Luke Rowe on the base of the Galibier.. which is quite funny.. meanwhile on twitter.. the #freetonymartin hashtag has another meaning, anyone remember that Farmer who shot a burglar a few years back.
Izoard is such a visually stark climb, I've been up it once, but was driving a support van, my pals cracked it and more doing Raid alpine. Bloody lovely descent in the van to get ahead so could get drinks/food etc ready.
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Well Quintana had 7 minutes at one point but is back down to 4:30 so others have had to chase that down but that there are four other riders from four different teams, all in with a shout (before NQ making 5) negates the loss of riders to jumbo and Ineos to a small degree. I
t's not like Ineos nor jumbo are having to do all the attacking to put alaphilipe under pressure as both BH and FDJ will be wanting to ramp things up for their men to have a crack. And as mentioned elsewhere, on stages in the Alps you can lose over a minute in a mile if a rider isn't on it.
Both riders were daft but easy to say as I'm not 2.5 weeks into a grand tour, exhausted, stressed in riding in a crazy heat.....give them a break, it wasn't a serious incident. Looks like FDJ have the organisers on their side.....what a shock.
The bloody French will do anything to get a winner of their own race! LOL