The Café Stop 1 – February 27
Welcome to The Cafe Stop, the venue for this, the first in a series of cycling webchats hosted by journalist Lionel Birnie. This week’s chat has now finished. Join me next Monday at 1pm (GMT). The first edition of the chat is available to read...
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CYCLING Why the Tour de France is not a three-week jolly >> A bit of a change of pace today. This blog is not intended to be serious all the time, rather it’s a random collection of thoughts as they occur. If there’s anything you’d like to read about in future, drop me a line at [email protected] or send me a message on Twitter @lioneljbirnie I made the mistake of complaining to a friend the other day that booking hotels for this summer’s Tour de France was turning into a bit of a nightmare. “Everywhere within 40 miles of Liège is already...
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