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P-R ride
FlashUNC said it best, "It is the greatest and worst bike ride you will ever do". Did it twice in 93 & '94 as a brevet, then decided to compete in the amateur version race, 160 kms'-started right on the first cobbled section at Troisville. Each time I finished I swore i would never do it again...first year I doubled wrapped some Cinelli cork and wore first generation Spenco Gel gloves.....next year I had some vinyl, lightly padded tape and regular gloves and for the race I didn't wear gloves! Each outcome was the same, my fingers and hands hurt the most! The first two were on an older Vitus 979 with early STI components, and the race was on a Lightspeed Classic with Sachs components-no flats, but I did overcook a corner in year one, biffed in a field and bent one of the soft alu fork blades on the Vitus, rode the rest of the way wrestling the bars in order to keep tracking straight. Finished all three times, and best I recall, all three rides were on Wolber Pro SP1 tubulars.
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