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KEVIN MCCALLUM: On your bike, roll up to the start, reach the end, drink beer — that’s the Cycle Tour
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On Thursday, four days ahead of the Cape Town Cycle Tour, it rained in Cape Town. In the tinkling of a cloud my carefully planned training programme for what will be my 15th Cycle Tour was thrown into disarray. Mind you, if I had gone for a ride on Thursday it would also have been the start of my training for my 15th Cycle Tour. I should stop talking about how many Cycle Tours I have done. Number crunching your cycling is not very cool. It is decidedly showy-off and amateur. Not every second counts even when it is all about the bike. Get on your bike, roll up to the start, get to the end, drink beer. That is what Cycle Tour Sunday is all about. I’ve never really taken my cycling as seriously as I should have for a man who has seven bikes at home. At the last count, there were three road bikes, two mountain bikes, a commuter and a BMX. I love bikes. I have been known to walk into Dunkeld Cycles, my local bike store, just to chat and ogle bikes. I don’t need a new bike. I wouldn’t kno...
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