"Do you ride with Valverde?"

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"Do you ride with Valverde?"

Postby Mike I » Sun May 18, 2008 9:00 pm

So there I was in the early part of the Hampshire Hilly Hundred, when a fellow rider turns to me and says, "Are you that guy who rode with Valverde?"

"I must be going well", I thought, "This chap thinks I'm riding like George!"

I felt it only fair to put the record straight, but who's the most famous cyclist you've been mistaken for? Mills and/or Paul? Champion from Belleville Rendezvous? A bear from a Russian circus?
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Re: "Do you ride with Valverde?"

Postby Andrew G » Sun May 18, 2008 9:25 pm

One for you here Dad :wink: .
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Re: "Do you ride with Valverde?"

Postby Roy Green » Sun May 18, 2008 10:01 pm

"Are you the guy that rode with 1960s star Frenchman Raymond Poulidor?" Well, yes, actually.
In 1961 when I worked on Sporting Cyclist magazine I spent a week or so in Nice in March, following the pros in their training camps and races there. I stayed at the same hotel as Poulidor. He actually asked me to keep him company on a couple of training rides. No heroics needed from me, as with a race every other day, the pros would ride easy tempo, for about 100km. The hardest part was keeping with him descending the Alpes Maritimes climbs. By the end of the week I was quite a fearless descender!
Poulidor was a thoroughly nice, placid, guy. He would have been the best Tour rider of the decade but for a certain Jacques Anquetil getting in his way. The week after the Nice training he won Milan-San Remo. Don't think I can claim any credit for pushing him ... It gave me a good headline for my article: 'I trained with winner of Milan-San Remo'. As for Anquetil, have just finished reading Paul Howard's steamy biography of him 'Sex, Lies and Handlebar Tape'. Quelle homme!
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Re: "Do you ride with Valverde?"

Postby -Adam- » Sun May 18, 2008 10:20 pm

Well a dropping Liquigas up Ide Hill was fun, to be fair though, it was Fillipo Pozzatto that started it! 8)
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Re: "Do you ride with Valverde?"

Postby Stu Merckx Man » Mon May 19, 2008 12:44 pm

i had nice little sprint up the selsdon park hotel drive with old oscar pierero 8)
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Re: "Do you ride with Valverde?"

Postby -Adam- » Mon May 19, 2008 3:49 pm

[quote="Stu Merckx Man"]oscar pierero


Who??

Oh waitn, you mean Pereiro!? :lol:
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Re: "Do you ride with Valverde?"

Postby Stu Merckx Man » Mon May 19, 2008 6:13 pm

you say tomato i say tomato :wink:
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