Comments on: #bikeablegood – Vive la France (you are now entering cycling country)

By: Alastair

Alastair — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 07:58:34 +0000

Was amazing, I felt like I had arisen to the occasion, especially after the 15th hairpin, and going through Dutch corner was just surreal!

By: ragtimecyclist

ragtimecyclist — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 07:28:55 +0000

That’s great – this has happened to me a couple of times in Cumbria. I love that sense you get from people of ‘i have no idea why you’re doing that…but WELL DONE!’

By: ragtimecyclist

ragtimecyclist — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 07:27:25 +0000

Le Diable Ecosse – now that is a nickname worth having! Sounds fantastic…it must have felt like you were really part of something, sounds like you rose to the occasion (saltire and white beard flying)!

By: georgie

georgie — Fri, 27 Dec 2013 13:07:50 +0000

If only people here had that much happy spirit with cyclists. Yesterday on the hills, a car with German plates passed me after a sharp hairpin – the response of the inhabitants of the vehicle were massive thumbs up and waving. Really gave me an extra energy spurt. Lovely feeling indeed.

By: Alastair

Alastair — Wed, 25 Dec 2013 15:38:41 +0000

Going up Alpes d’Huez on the morning the Tour came up later, I was flying a saltire & was my usual older self, with a white beard. The thousands do fans cheered us up, gave us pushes plus cries of bravo & chapeau, but the best was “Allez, Le Diable Ecosse”!!