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Gary Fairley @thegaryfairley.bsky.social · 10d

I bought this tome from the Vintage-Cycling Club at the Simpson Retro a couple of weeks ago. It is RIDICULOUSLY geeky, as well as being hugely informative. I’m already down a Carlton frame number rabbit hole. 🤓#CyclingBlueSky

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Gary Fairley @thegaryfairley.bsky.social · 22d

Chuffed to see Demi back to winning ways. 🇳🇱🇪🇺

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Gary Fairley @thegaryfairley.bsky.social · 29d

I worked there from late 1990 until 1994. Our offices were well away from the good stuff but I still remember walking across the main hall on winter evenings and watching snow fall on the glass roof. Magical. 😊

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Gary Fairley @thegaryfairley.bsky.social · Sep 26

My first posting as a very junior civil servant was a secondment to the NMS HR department. So long ago that it was called ‘Personnel’ then. 🤣

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Gary Fairley @thegaryfairley.bsky.social · Sep 15

“Monsieur Lappartient, this would be a great opportunity for the UCI to lead the sporting world and be on the right side of history for once.”

“Naaah….”

Domestique @domestiquecycling.com · Sep 15

UCI attacks Spanish government over 🇪🇸 #LaVuelta25 protests

“The UCI strongly condemns the exploitation of sport for political purposes in general, and especially coming from a government.”

📄 www.domestiquecycling.com/en/news/uci-...

📸 Cor Vos

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Gary Fairley @thegaryfairley.bsky.social · Sep 1

Bike build*

www.rivbike.com/products/roa...

*Bike not included.

Roadini Build - Will's Pick (frame not included)

Will's Build parts list* here. This is our standard drop bar package. If you'd like a different color of bar tape, just let us know or put it in the order notes and it shall be done. If this build ap...

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Gary Fairley @thegaryfairley.bsky.social · Aug 19

Definitely not a Flanders Classic at Ibrox tonight, at least not ifyou support the home team. Got a good pic, mind.

Ibrox Stadium under floodlights and moody skies

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Gary Fairley @thegaryfairley.bsky.social · Aug 19

On the local supporters bus to the Rangers v Brugges game tonight and sitting with my son and his pals. It occurs to me that my scarf is easily twice as old as all of them and probably older than their dads. 🤣

Gary Fairley @thegaryfairley.bsky.social · Aug 17

[email protected] are always brilliant live but Friday’s Patreon bash in Morecambe was next level. Throat still feeling the vocal exertions today, while the 70s disco outfit is on the washing line frightening the neighbours. Missing my long black hair, mind. 😂

Gary Fairley @thegaryfairley.bsky.social · Aug 15

That’s it sealed then 👍

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Gary Fairley @thegaryfairley.bsky.social · Aug 14

My morning commute is a 1km walk to the station followed by a similar walk to the office. Neither is onerous but I really really want a Brompton 🤣. #CyclingBlueSky

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Gary Fairley @thegaryfairley.bsky.social · Aug 9

At least 🤣

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Gary Fairley @thegaryfairley.bsky.social · Aug 9

An hour on the turbo has been scientifically proven* to equate to 4 hours on the road.
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*Citation needed

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Gary Fairley @thegaryfairley.bsky.social · Aug 9

Spotify has been trolling me with #Britpop all weekend, which has been no bad thing really (post-Morning Glory Oasis notwithstanding) and especially since I subsequently rediscovered Sleeper’s first 2 albums.

youtu.be/rJEyKr7J0Wc?...

Sleeper - Sale Of The Century (Video)

YouTube video by SleeperVEVO

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Gary Fairley @thegaryfairley.bsky.social · Aug 9

And this is happening under a Labour government. It really does beggar belief. 😔

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Gary Fairley @thegaryfairley.bsky.social · Aug 8

Goody Proctor also spotted, with the devil. Possibly.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Rupert Lowe reports charity rowers to coastguard as possible ‘illegal migrants’

MP agrees to donate £1,000 to crew’s fundraising effort after alerting authorities to their boat off Great Yarmouth

www.theguardian.com

Gary Fairley @thegaryfairley.bsky.social · Aug 4

Denmark, I have questions. #CyclingBlueSky

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Gary Fairley @thegaryfairley.bsky.social · Aug 3

Doing the tourist thing in #Copenhagen this weekend. This is King Christian VIII who eschewed the traditional length shorts with his coronation robes. Basically the Chloe Dygert of his day. #CyclingBlueSky

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Gary Fairley @thegaryfairley.bsky.social · Aug 3

To be fair, one of those gets under a front tyre and it’ll be carnage. You can’t be too careful these days.

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Gary Fairley @thegaryfairley.bsky.social · Aug 3

I’m a huge Demi fan but also wanted to see if Kasia’s win last year was a portent of things to come rather than a flash in the pan, so you can probably see from where my discontent comes! 🤣 PFP’s Roubaix was very special indeed tho.

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Gary Fairley @thegaryfairley.bsky.social · Aug 3

But France will have 3 stage wins and a maillot jaune tonight. So it’s all fine. 😉

Gary Fairley @thegaryfairley.bsky.social · Aug 3

Maybe this year just hasn’t lived up to my own expectations (hopes?) and I’m also acutely aware that I’m also partly looking through the lens of the men’s race and am probably channeling Henri Desgranges, so should probably shut up now. 🤣

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Gary Fairley @thegaryfairley.bsky.social · Aug 3

(But the planets haven’t half aligned for her, haven’t they? 😉) My issue is more with the race itself: it’s still too short and dare I suggest not different enough from other races in the calendar. Itzulia or the Tour de Suisse arguably have as much bang for buck over fewer stages.

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Gary Fairley @thegaryfairley.bsky.social · Aug 3

AvdB winning (and that’s not exactly nailed-on) will be because she started today 9 minutes down on GC. PFP isn’t the problem - I’m not a fan but she raced it perfectly and can only beat who turns up, and to suggest she hasn’t been the best of the field these 9 stages would be a nonsense.

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Gary Fairley @thegaryfairley.bsky.social · Aug 2

This is undoubtedly the result the ASO dreamed about but we’re going to have to redefine what “GC rider” means in the WWT if a rider can take a decade off and then put 3 minutes into last year’s GC podium on the queen stage of the jewel in women’s cycling’s crown. #CyclingBlueSky #TdFF2025.

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