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PBP - It's gonna be a rain ride....
Paris Brest Paris is a 1200K brevet that
only happens once every 7 years. So you work your ass off doing all the qualifying events, fly your ass to Paris, and guess what, it's going to be 1200K in the rain. You wouldn't wish a fate like this on your worst enemy. Ride starts in a few hours (Monday morning Paris time). |
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PBP - It's gonna be a rain ride....
Paris Brest Paris is a 1200K brevet that only happens once every 7 years. So you work your ass off doing all the qualifying events, fly your ass to Paris, and guess what, it's going to be 1200K in the rain. You wouldn't wish a fate like this on your worst enemy. You don't have to when they wish it on themselves. I wonder if Scott Dickson will show up. The race just hasn't been the same since Opperman won. Bob Schwartz -------------- Dickson isn't on the American list. Looking at the Paris, France weather, and it looks like it's going to rain during the days, and not the nights. It takes 50-90 hours to do the ride. Having done some rain rides in the middle of the night, once you get soaked, you never seem to get dry, you just get more and more miserable. Nighttime temps are going to be in the 50's, which is really cold, if you're wet. They have around 3000 signed up for the ride, which will really suck in bad weather. When they hit the time stations, they may have to wait in line, standing in the rain to get their time stamp, and wait in another line, in the rain, for the ham sandwich, or ham and eggs, or whatever the french can dream up to make with ham. Personally I don't like ham, mixed with anything. Ham if it's done right, can very good, but if it gets a little old it's putrid. |
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PBP - It's gonna be a rain ride....
Crescentius Vespasianus wrote:
Paris Brest Paris is a 1200K brevet that only happens once every 7 years. So you work your ass off doing all the qualifying events, fly your ass to Paris, and guess what, it's going to be 1200K in the rain. You wouldn't wish a fate like this on your worst enemy. You don't have to when they wish it on themselves. I wonder if Scott Dickson will show up. The race just hasn't been the same since Opperman won. Bob Schwartz |
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PBP - It's gonna be a rain ride....
Paris Brest Paris is a 1200K brevet that only happens once every 7 years. So you work your ass off doing all the qualifying events, fly your ass to Paris, and guess what, it's going to be 1200K in the rain. You wouldn't wish a fate like this on your worst enemy. Ride starts in a few hours (Monday morning Paris time). Paris-Brest-Paris, randonee version, happens every four years, not every seven. ----------- Yea, you're right. The last one was in 2003. Don't know why I was thinking 7. |
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PBP - It's gonna be a rain ride....
Dan Gregory wrote:
Crescentius Vespasianus wrote: Paris Brest Paris is a 1200K brevet that only happens once every 7 years. So you work your ass off doing all the qualifying events, fly your ass to Paris, and guess what, it's going to be 1200K in the rain. You wouldn't wish a fate like this on your worst enemy. Ride starts in a few hours (Monday morning Paris time). Not raining at this moment http://www.parisbrestparis.tv/paris_...igne_de_depart --------------- they aren't on the road yet. It looks cloudy on the webcam, not to threatening by what I see with your link, right now. I hear the Seattle rando folk do the best if it rains, and of course they all have fenders. |
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PBP - It's gonna be a rain ride....
On Aug 19, 6:32 am, Crescentius Vespasianus
wrote: Paris Brest Paris is a 1200K brevet that only happens once every 7 years. So you work your ass off doing all the qualifying events, fly your ass to Paris, and guess what, it's going to be 1200K in the rain. You wouldn't wish a fate like this on your worst enemy. Ride starts in a few hours (Monday morning Paris time). Paris-Brest-Paris, randonee version, happens every four years, not every seven. |
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PBP - It's gonna be a rain ride....
Crescentius Vespasianus wrote:
Paris Brest Paris is a 1200K brevet that only happens once every 7 years. So you work your ass off doing all the qualifying events, fly your ass to Paris, and guess what, it's going to be 1200K in the rain. You wouldn't wish a fate like this on your worst enemy. Ride starts in a few hours (Monday morning Paris time). Not raining at this moment http://www.parisbrestparis.tv/paris_...igne_de_depart |
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