Howdy Red Riders...
Ol' Curly has been doing some research for this big bike race called "Paris-Roubaix"... ever heard of it? Seems that the little ol' tour that curly signed up for prior to the PRO race is going to be something of a race... and sponsored by the ASO-holes... OK, so maybe a cyclotour isn't really a big race like say Pacific Raceways or Chilly Hilly... but I guess people go fast and try to get a good time. Perhaps Ol' Curly should think about getting a TT bike for it and a set of them fancy disc wheels.
Regardless, Curly will be rolling a 62 up front to help ease the taint pounding good time that will occur.
By I digress... Ol' Curly has been doing some research on Paris-Roubaix and it seems that the roads aren't really all that great. People get hurt and stuff and ifn' it rains, those cobbles can be slick. There's an entire book out (see picture above) on how painful and dangerous this cyclotour can be... I found it interesting that there's never been a "women's" race... Now the old Curly might have offended some in the past around this subject, but I'd like to think that the reason that the lady-folk don't try to pound themselves into a pulp to try and win a trip around a velodrome and a fancy cobbled trophy is that maybe they're just a lot smarter than the men-folk sometimes...
So, back to the book... it's a good read... packed full of pretty pictures for those that don't read so good as well as some tidbits about Curly's old friend "The Cannibal" and some other fellas that didn't die doing the race... It gets a two thumbs up from Ol' Curly.... even if all you want to do is look at the pretty pictures.
Stay tuned... Ol' Curly has a few posts coming soon about the type of equipment he'll need to ride the cyclotour... and I don't mean Chimay glasses and brown paper to wrap the frites in...
Peace...
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