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Anthony Lloyd of
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Chris Jose of Herbert
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Passions You’ve worked hard and been successful, you are passionate about how you use your personal time and as the famous quote goes -’It’s not about the bike’. Passion, as defined by Executive Cyclist E X E C U T I V E C Y C L I S T M AG A Z I N E
Magazine is the celebration of your achievements. through hobbies, activites, giving back to the community..... You are proud of where you are in life. Anthony Lloyd of Minter Ellison shares his passion of photography (from p42). On a sabbatical, he and his family spent some time in Cuba during the celebration of 50 years of revolution. A hobby that Anthony
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saw him exhibit and sell prints which is a remarkable achievement. Whatever passion you have, celebrate it. And if you are happy to share and talk about these passions, you’ll probably find you are not alone.
Simon. bigguy@executivecyclist.com
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Services industry for over 20
some amazing staff and
years, predominantly in New
customers and enjoyed all the
Zealand. I joined Westpac
various life experiences, such as
Group eight years ago and
donating fresh running water to
have had the privilege to work
a village and staying with locals
across New Zealand as well
in very remote villages drinking
as in Fiji, before moving to
Kava and singing late into the
Australia. In Fiji I was the CEO
evening, them trekking out.
Westpac Fiji which was an amazing experience for me and my family.
We currently love living in Sydney as it’s such a vibrant city and career wise I’m
From there we moved to the
working on a return to New
cycle capital of Australia,
Zealand in the CEO capacity
Adelaide, where I worked for
sometime in the near future.
Bank SA as GM Retail. What a great city to live in and enjoy cycling – the hills are so close to the city! Early last year my family and I moved to Sydney
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Northern Beaches. A good week is meeting up with mates and pushing each other up those hills and accomplishing about 300km over the course of the week. All rides have to be accompanied by good coffee! Describe a favourite ride:
am entered in for 2015. I love What sports have you been
I’ve never looked back from
ascending hills and coming
involved with?
there and equally enjoy the
from New Zealand also enjoy
I grew up in the South Island
time on my own in those early
the Crown Range – between
morning rides as well as the
Queenstown and Wanaka
great bunch rides pushing
as well as the port hills in
you along as you meet and
Christchurch. There was also a
befriend great people from
great climb in Fiji, Coli-I-Suva,
all walks of life. I’m an active
and although not step or long,
member of the Northern
in the humidity and heat it was
Sydney Cycle Club (NSCC) as
a good challenge. What made it
well as regularly participating
interesting was the wandering
in charity rides and organised
livestock, crazy bus drivers and
Fondo’s and races.
the wild dogs chasing you.
of New Zealand very active. I played representative Soccer (Football) and Golf (have played on scratch) as well as Athletics and Cross country running. After three knee reconstructions, all through playing soccer, I got into cycling late in life to rehabilitate my right knee.
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What is a cycling ambition? To remain fit and healthy and enjoy cycling as well as smash the 9hour mark at Three Peaks.
especially Mont Ventoux and Col de la Machine. I’m also really looking forward to the Beat Cancer Tour in January 2015. The Beat Cancer Tour is an official part of the Santos Tour Down Under whereby a select group of 30 riders will be chosen and given the chance to enjoy the full pro rider experience. The ride includes every stage of the Santos Tour Down Under
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in front of the pros, Soigneurs and domestiques to provide on and off road support, full mechanical support as well as VIP hospitality for the best view as the pros cross the finish line each day. I ride a charity tour each year to “Give Back” and this is the choice of 2015 so I can raise funds for cancer research and live life like a pro cyclist at the Santos Tour Down under. 21
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What bike/s do you ride? I ride a Specialized Venge, it’s a great
How do you balance your personal, professional and riding lives?
ride and as I’ve had it for a couple of
It’s an ongoing challenge as many
years it’s about time to upgrade as
readers will know. I have a very
per the “N + 1” rule.
supportive family and two teenage daughters, so it’s best to ride early in the morning. The alignment between work and personal life changes frequently with conflicting demands however for everyone’s sake I’m at my best when I have regular time on the Bike. I also manage to take my Bike on business trips and holiday’s so I can cycle in different countries as well as see more of this amazing country.
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I’m challenging myself to be as fit
story to share?
as possible for the Beat Cancer ride
I’m yet to complete Three Peaks
in January so I can really enjoy the
without a significant mechanical; the first I blew my whole wheel out only 2km’s from the start, had to borrow a mate’s wheel and eventually finished, after an extremely slow start. The second, I snapped my chain at the ascent of the back of Falls Creek, waited 1.15hrs and then a fellow cyclist had a spare link so off I went again, next year will be third time lucky.
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“Live like a pro” experience. I want to average over 30km/h for the tour and will also need to balance the Christmas and New Year festivities. So I’m about to significantly increase my amount of training and enjoy the summer weather in Sydney, oh and not having a haircut until January and then shaving it the day before the ride. All in the name of charity!
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Director Safetrac Group
a commercial role with the
passion and that’s what I
becoming an Internal Affairs
government and focussed
studied at university, straight
prosecutor, once I finished my
on anything computing,
after school. I left university
degree and was qualified.
technology or intellectual
after a couple
property related, as
of years and
that really interested
became a
me.
computer
I then took a pay
programmer,
cut to get some
then applied to
real technology
join the police
experience and
force (I’m still
worked at a small law
not sure why!).
firm principally doing
I had a lot of fun
technology related
doing different
legal work. Then I got
things like
what was then my
Highway Patrol
dream job as a lawyer
and Detectives
at IBM. It wasn’t long
before finally
before I was poached
settling into the
by the technology
Prosecutions
team at Minter Ellison
Section. It was
in Sydney, and then
a baptism of fire
went on to set up
and I learnt to think on my feet. I was sent
I really didn’t enjoy the side
out to relieve in the country
of life I was experiencing but
in my first week as a fully
I enjoyed the law and was
fledged prosecutor at age 22
determined to change into
and was left alone to do three
the corporate world and get
committals for arson, armed
away from crime. At that
robbery and conspiracy to
time I started lecturing part-
murder.
time in criminal law at UTS in
I studied law part-time and then moved to a specialist
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the law faculty, and then in communications law in the engineering faculty. I took
the Minters technology and telecommunications practice in Hong Kong. I worked there for almost 7 years, before returning to Sydney in 2007. I’ve been at Minters for 15 years now, and a partner for 13. I now head the firm’s Technology, Media and Telecommunications Industry Group and practice, where I
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specialise in large technology
What sports have you been
and telecommunications
involved with?
projects, joint ventures and
I have played football (primarily
international and I regularly work on transactions in the US
5 until I gave it away a year or so ago before I qualified
I’ve been very lucky to do some
I concentrate on following
extremely interesting work,
Liverpool. I have also played
including restructuring the IT
competition squash for around
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infrastructure arrangements
20 years but have scaled that
for the Bank of Ireland in the
back to the occasional social
middle of the GFC, in Dublin,
game now. I’m a rugby fan and
and Satellite aquisition and
into most types of motor sport,
launch work for SingTel Optus.
particularly Formula 1 and
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I’m also a director of the Safetrac Group. It brings together really innovative technology for compliance, an online board portal solution via a secure iPad application, and a recently launched online solution for the management of legal incidents and risks. The deal with my wife is when
MotoGP. I ride my motorbike at the race track which is more physically demanding than most other sports. I’m also a keen kayaker, which I do mainly in middle harbour. I’m a wake boarding addict. I used to go every weekend with my daughters when they were younger and when I lived on the water, even through winter!
I can retire from law I will go back and finish my architecture degree, while she continues her work as an M&A partner and then I’ll support her while she does her veterinary science degree.
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would be the icing on the cake,
people upload rides from all
on the bike:
but it rarely happens at the
over the world. It allows me
My mate Nathan got me into
moment. I’m keen to get back
to combine my passion for
into more regular kayaking, so
gadgets with cycling as the
I’m committing to go once a
iPad streams the vision to the
week before work with Ryan
TV and controls the resistance
O’Neill though I’m going to
on the rollers. It’s actually a
struggle to keep up once he
very accurate set up and you
perfects his paddling technique.
really appreciate it when you
try to ride to and from work as
I’m only just able to now!
get over a crest and the thing
much as I can, then a long ride
If it’s raining then I am on
on Saturday or Sunday morning
the rollers and have a set
(Bobbin Head, or Church Point
up where I can ride places
or out to La Pa). If I managed
like Alpe d’Huez, Madrid or
to get a lap or two of Manly
anywhere really. In fact, it’s a
Dam on the mountain bike
service where in addition to
(where I started) then that
commercially produced rides,
road riding, and moved me away from mountain biking. So that’s primarily what I do now. Typically we would do a couple of 30K rides before work during the week and I
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well. It’s only around 20k round
I really enjoy the Church
other road bike is a Ducati 1198s
trip though, so it’s not much
Corse, though it only goes on
exercise, but it means I easily fit
the track now.
in another few rides.
How do you balance your
Do you have an interesting
personal, professional and
cycling story to share?
Point ride heading out from Northbridge, across to Mosman and the Spit then up Wakehust Parkway and out to Church Point and Akuna Bay, looping back home. Riding from home
riding lives?
I’ve only been riding the road
to meet up with mates at
I have a very supportive wife
bike for a few months, but I’ve
Centennial Park, then going
and I maintain the balance
been on the mountain bike
along the beaches and out to
mostly by riding before
for quite a few years and love
La Perouse is also a favourite.
everyone gets out of bed. I’ve
the really technical stuff. I
perfected the art of getting
started riding to work about
What is a cycling ambition?
out of the house without
15 years ago when you would
To ride some of the rides in
waking everyone, especially my
be lucky to pass someone
youngest. It took some time
on the harbour bridge rather
to get past the cat without
than queuing to get on as
him yelling at me for food and
sometimes happens now. I was
waking everyone. I’ve had a few
also brave enough to ride down
disasters, most notably when
ramp between the northern
on the way to a ride I tried to
steps, but now I get off and
co-ordinate the sound of the
walk down.
Europe that I’ve only seen on video while on the rollers! Alpe d’Huez is my current favourite, though I expect to have to do lots of training before I can tackle it for real. I’d still really love to do one of those helicopter mountain biking things in New Zealand where they drop you at the top and you descend (some may say
car starting with the garage door going up and failed to wait long enough for the door to go up. I managed to rip the
that’s cheating).
bike off the top of the car and
What bike/s do you ride?
a great crash, all at around
My road bike is a Cervelo S5 with Enve 6.7s and mountain bike is a GT Marathon Pro Carbon (which is getting old now, but still does the job). I
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Motorbikes It’s the most cathartic thing I do because you get a complete release from stress on the track. You simply have to give it 100%.. If I ever find myself thinking of anything else, I go back into the pits and then get my head back in the right space. If you are leaning into turn 1 at Eastern Creek after going 270km/h plus down the straight then you need to be concentrating. I managed to get my daughters out on dirt bikes a few times, but nothing too scary yet.
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At the time, the Targa was the only car I had kept for more than 12 months. I had it for around 3 years and was going to ship it back to Australia, but with all
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years. It was finally out of its extended warranty and wasn’t worth much second hand, it needed some engine work and was starting to show its age. So I went about changing every part that was worn and bringing it back to its factory best, along with liberal lashings of carbon fibre suggested by my wife. At that time I fitted a Vortech Supercharger and a new cardan shaft
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to handle the extra power. It has a cup gearbox and turbo suspension and brakes, so none of those needed
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upgrading. It had 320bhp originally, and now has almost 500bhp, more than a GT2 of that period. The acceleration has been described by a friend as
I used to change cars every 12 months,
‘brutal’, yet it still happily sits in bumper
because I just couldn’t get enough of them,
to bumper peak hour traffic winding up
I was always searching for the next best
the Cahill Expressway. The Germans
thing I could get. Then I managed to get
know what they are doing. It may be
into a second-hand 911 when I lived in Hong
old but it’s still shiny, and a lot cheaper
Kong. It was a Targa,, I really wanted a
than a new one (which would be slower
Carrera 4S, but couldn’t afford one.
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Art & Architecture Art and Architecture have always been a passion. I’ve been fortunate enough to be E X E C U T I V E C Y C L I S T M AG A Z I N E
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pretending I was an artist juxtaposing American and Cuban culture. It turned out that it seemed to upset the locals, so we just managed to do one, just outside of Trinidad. One of the best photography experiences I have had was photographing the Big Day Out. I did it for an on-line magazine as a favour for a friend. I got to be a photographer for the day and hang out in the photographers pit and see some of my favourite artists up close. I got really excited when the management of Jet wanted to use some of my pics to promote the band, but sadly they broke up before we got a deal done!
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“Public Transport� At the time, Cubans were not allowed to trade cars. Vehicles belonged to families lucky enough to have them. The tradition is to pick up people and give them a lift if you have room.
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David Bell, Managing Director of
and runs 8 homes in Thailand for orphaned and
Kwik Kopy discusses how an annual
disadvantaged kids. Among Peter’s proudest
charity series of bike rides in
achievements is the fact that every dollar raised
I was blown away by Peter’s story. What impressed me was that he is such a modest person. He tells his harrowing story with no hints
The Kwik Kopy Hands Classic fundraising ride first came into being in 2012 following my
of sensationalism and he never has his hand (pardon the pun) out for help or money .
meeting with Peter Baines the founder of the
When I also found out that his main fundraising
charity Hands across the Water.
activity is an annual series of bike rides in
Kwik Kopy had been involved for a number of years prior to that in sponsoring various charity bike rides. This is mainly because of my love of cycling combined with a desire to put something back into the community . I first met Peter Baines in late 2011 and heard his amazing story of how as a chief inspector in the forensics department of the NSW Police Force he came to lead an international team of experts with the gruelling task of identifying over 3000 dead people following the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, most of whom were local Thai people who left behind scores of orphaned kids . As one might expect this became a life defining moment for Peter so fast forward a few years and he has now quit his senior position in the police and has started a charity to help these orphaned kids.” Hands” as it is sometimes referred to has now raised over $10 million, is a registered charity
Thailand I thought to myself, would it not be great to mirror this concept in Australia with a similar ride? And so was born the Kwik Kopy Hands Classic bike ride. I allowed my self the poetic licence of including the word “classic” in the title for a bit of fun! From the very beginning I was clear that the ride
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should be for all comers. It is very much a social ride and not a race . Our average speed is 20-25 kmh and we stop to regroup and have coffee every couple of hours. The initial format was a week long ride covering as close to 1000 km as we could get. The ride course changes every year and we always head for quiet country roads, making sure we include some hills to create some pain. I figure that if you are asking people to sponsor you they want to know that what you are doing is not going to be a walk in the park! In our first year one the riders who had done the Thai rides gave each of us a small laminated
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Long Distance Rides I am a classic week end warrior!
it up with a drink at day’s
Up early on a Sunday morning
end and a great laugh as you
to grab three hours on the bike
recount the days events. Magic!
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chores and routines .
Melbourne to Canberra Rotary ride. I was sure how I would go
Wouldn’t it be great if you
so I wangled a “try before you
could stretch yourself a bit
buy” opportunity and just rode
and see if you could push the
the last leg. A 110 km run from
boundaries in both distance
Cooma to Canberra !
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I came well prepared. I fitted a
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if you have a family to take care
a 11/28 cassette and thought to
of. So how about sweetening
myself either I will get smashed
the deal by adding a bit about
by the ride hardened veterans
doing “something for others” to
who had ridden all the way
balance it out?
from Melbourne or my fresh
Regardless of your commitment to the charity you are supporting there is no
legs would give me the edge. In the event the latter proved to be the case and I was hooked.
doubt that fundraising is hard
The next year I participated
work, so by setting yourself
in my first full 1,000km ride.
that further challenge you
We went around Victoria anti
are adding significantly to
clockwise including riding over
the experience of the charity
the Alpine Way from Omeo to
ride. It becomes a fantastically
Bright and on to Rutherglen.
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My first long ride was the 2006
When I first starting
Beyond that there is also the
participating in the longer rides
undoubted pleasure that you
I was not sure how I would go
get to challenge yourself with a
over seven days of riding. I
group of mates and seeing how
expected that each day I would
each of you reacts and rises to
lose energy and recover a little
the day’s riding, then following
less well so that by the end I
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would have no gas left in the tank at all. What surprised me was how well I recovered every night so that by the following
a special diet including a huge breakfast. I soon found out that was unnecessary. Now I just eat whatever I like but eat regularly during the ride and drink plenty of water and not too much Gatorade! Since that first year I have done one long ride every year and they have becoming a great highlight of my year. Even though I first starting
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riding road bikes at the age of 9 when we lived in France, I never had any particular desire or ambition to ride endurance events. I pretty much fell into it as part of the middle aged desire to take on new challenges to prove that I still have what it takes on the fitness stakes . As a pro cyclist once said to me “the secret to training for long rides is easy. Just get on your bike and do as many kms
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normally starting around December and January when I have more time to ride and the weather is warmer. My training then starts to include a mixture of short circuit rides around my home in Lindfield and longer rides around West Head and Akuna. I like to get as many hills into that mix which is not too hard when you live on the upper north shore of Sydney. I do not feel that my bike ride training has much of an impact on the family
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because I ride early before any of my teenage children have even surfaced from their weekend slumbers and I use my commute to work as part of my training. I do not think my bike riding impinges on my work commitments. Interestingly some of my clearest thinking and problem solving occurs when I am out on my bike so perhaps I should be doing more riding during work time and it might make me a more effective CEO ! There is little doubt that bike riding has significant long term health benefits. I rarely get sick even when there is a contagion of flu running through the
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a sore neck when I have been riding non stop for over three hours or more but that is nothing that a couple of Nurefen and a hot shower at the end of the ride
get pretty tired so I always careful to make sure I get between 7-8 hours sleep a night. The other thing I have found is
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cannot fix. The body copes well with the
rides if I have a complete break from riding for a week or so before the start. This allows all the stiffness and soreness to evaporate and I feel stronger for it when I first hit the bitumen again. On the longer rides the main difference in terms of how you feel depends on a mixture and weather and the ride profile on that particular day. I hate riding into the wind above all else. I find it much
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more energy sapping than hill climbing. I don’t mind the cold but I am not too keen on the rain particularly if it hits you early in the day and you then spend hours with soggy feet. Having said that in eight years of week long charity rides I have only had three hours of rain in total. It must say something about the weather in late March . There is always terrific satisfaction finishing the ride particularly as in I my role as organiser I feel responsible for the safety and satisfaction of all the riders. On the first Kwik Kopy Hands ride
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back in 2012 I did tear up a little when we
We got the last laugh though when the
got back to Sydney at the thought that I
next morning at breakfast we noticed a
had safely taken 35 riders out over 7 days
sore and sorry looking young cowboy
and 800kms and only had one minor
with bloodied arms and knees. We later
prang when a rider misjudged a bend and
found out that he decided that riding
end up in the ditch with a bit of bark off
around the gravel carpark on a road bike
his elbow!
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bucking bull at the rodeo. He soon found out he was wrong when his boots failed to cleat properly and spread-eagled himself in the gravel!!
of the hill next to the cattle yards on the
I have a couple of challenges which I
same night as all the cattlemen were also
would still like to attempt before too long.
in town for the annual autumn cattle sale.
Firstly I would like to complete the 165km
When we walked into the bar of the hotel
Fitz’s Challenge in Canberra followed by
in our multicoloured Lycra and padded
the ultimate challenge the Three Peaks
bike pants the whole bar turned around to
in the Victorian Alps. Most riders know
stare. It reminded me of the famous scene
the Three Peaks as the ultimate one day
in Priscilla Queen of the Desert when
endurance ride in Australia. 230km in a
Priscilla walks in to meet the locals at the
single day including the Tawonga Gap
Broken Hill pub. Fortunately it did not
climb, the Mt Hothan climb and some say
take us to long to establish our credentials
the hardest of the three, the Falls Creek
in the beer drinking stakes and we were
climb from the Omeo side. I am under
soon great friends .
no illusion that this would some serious
training of up to 300kms per week plus
because you are passionate about a cause
plenty of long steep hills. This one might
does not mean that your friends will be.
have to wait until the kids have left home
Most people donate to many worthy
and I have retired!
causes these days so just because they
Fund raising for charity rides does require planning and effort. The most important thing for me has been to establish my own database of contacts with whom I can communicate with quickly and effectively. I have found that most of my friends and
do not support you does not mean they
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do not care. Once you remember these principles then the fundraising effort simply becomes a numbers game. The more people you can talk to the quicker you will reach your fundraising target.
acquaintances are very generous with their support but you must make it easy for them to donate so you need a very user friendly donor portal. When you send your contacts an email asking for support they must be able to just jump onto a portal make their donation and get back to work in less than five minutes. The other thing to remember is that just
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We are planning for an extended European trip. We will be travelling July/August – could be pretty hot in Italy. There is an opportunity to include a cycle leg – always fun. The cycling needs to suit both my wife Penny, and me. We had previously enjoyed cycling in Italy and France. Should we try something different?
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And there was one other
While on that previous tour,
criteria that I needed to factor
having just climbed the Ghisallo
in. Our last cycling tour was
up from Bellagio on Lake Como,
a 14 day tour in Tuscany, the
we bumped into a Punto Tours
Dolomites and Lake Como
group and got talking to one of
- wonderful riding and very
the guides. We were impressed
enjoyable, for me at least. But it
by some of the things said and
was strenuous with many large
the way they were organised
mountain climbs. So severe
(and I particularly noted that
was it that I have since said
they rode Wilier bikes – my own
(only half jokingly) that Penny
brand). We later checked their
only stopped talking with me
website and noted the Norway
for 2 days. In short, for this trip
offering.
a better balance was needed.
On this premise we decided
Importantly, there wasn’t a day
and courses loaded). We then
to pursue a cycle tour in
when Penny stopped talking to
embarked on tour full of the
Norway. Certainly different to
me – success!
expected vistas and plenty of
the options we had previously enjoyed. So it was that we found ourselves in Stavanger for the start of the Punto Tours Norwegian Fjords tour that over the next 10 days would see us cycle more than 800 kilometres through villages, passed fjords and lakes with many reflections and waterfalls...and more waterfalls.
Overall a great balance of cycling with some solid ‘undulations’ (meaning nothing
opportunity for me to put in a few hard turns and for Penny to
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was flat but no big mountains).
A really well thought out
We covered over 800km over
itinerary by the Punto Tour
the 10 days, with the longest
people. One of our Italian
day about 140km. We started
guides has a Norwegian mother
with an easy loop around
and spent many a childhood
Stavanger getting used to the
summer in Norway. This local
Gran Turismo bikes (all fitted
experience certainly showed
with a Garmin 810 with maps
in the tour structure and the
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In summary, the cycling was
challenge riding in Norway
solid and enjoyable, but well
is in some of the tunnels
suited to differing standards
which increasingly pervade
of riding, the hotels were
the Norwegian road network.
great, the meal choices were
Some of the tunnels could be
thoughtful and the itinerary
avoided by using the old roads
sufficient to provide a lovely
as a pleasant by-pass. Others
introduction to this country.
however, there is no way to
The Wilier hire bikes were
travel but through the tunnel,
very good and the two guides
and this can be very scary.
worked together well, and
The scariest was one uphill 9%
mostly within the differing
gradient tunnel with the traffic
capabilities of the riders.
in both directions making a
Norway is a great place to ride
terrifying noise. On the worst of
and Punto Tours did very well in
the tunnels the guides sensibly
allowing us to enjoy it.
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Punto Day One - Stavanger warm up ride www.strava.com/activities/173031925
Punto Day Two - Stavanger Loop to Preikestolen www.strava.com/activities/173658149
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