Descent of Col d'Aubisque...

At home nursing my wounds and getting over a cold I've come across this...

Looks amazing doesn't it... unfortunately he is riding down the way we will be riding up!!!!

11 minutes down hill at that pace is err... several more going up and this is just the little bit between the Col d'Aubisque and Col d'Soulor!



On the plus side this was shot with a GoPro Hero 2 mounted on a chest mount, at 720p the video quality looks great.

2012 last training ride... not quite to plan!

Well 2012 didn't quite finish as i had hoped! On one of the last planned training rides this happened! Its not meant to do that!

My SRAM RIVAL rear gear lever snapped off!!!!

After doing a bit of searching i found I'm not alone as quite a few others have had the same thing happen. Grrr, not a happy bunny as a new lever set will cost about the same as the gopro action camera i wanted to get for the trip.  Arh well no point in having a nice camera on a cycle ride if you bike isn't working!