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Bus stop guarding

There is a little known unsporting trick that riders of the X68 bus use, it's called Bus Stop Guarding. Typically people who do it, have not been waiting the longest. Bus Stop guarding is the art of turning up to the bus stop and hanging around the actual stopping sign to ensure they are first on, in disregard for others who have been waiting longer on the bench or the wall. If you played footb


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"I’ve enjoyed the Tour de France but, so far, I think the highlights DVD won’t be a blockbuster because Wiggins and his team have controlled the race. For me a good race sees the yellow jersey flutter from shoulder to shoulder like a butterfly on a summer breeze. But this year Cancellara netted the yellow butterfly in the prologue. A week later Wiggins and Sky team have caught it and look to set to mount it in a glass case for display in a London museum." "We’ll have to see


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TdF haul - the branded guff

Leather note book Cooler bag Mavic cap Mavic service car Chocolate biscuits Route 'booklet' (268 pages) Lanyard Special edition newspaper Sick bag for day in the team car Wallet


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Tour de France Game

I downloaded the Tour de France app, its quite good although you have to pay 69p for it. It has photos and live updates and if you are going to France to watch a stage it will tell you when the riders and caravan are due to come through certain sections. I noticed at the bottom there was an Official Game - it cost £1.99 to buy the app. You load a game, choose a team (1 of the present Pro Tour t


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Condor & IG Markets Nocturne Bike Race 2012 from Crispin Deverill / Taiko 太鼓 on Vimeo. Note my new role: Camera Assistant. That's right, move over Scorsese


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Ben's Mum Bets

I once bet on the 2006 World Cup and won £90 from a £2 or maybe £1.50 bet. It was quite a slim chance of getting it right. I bet 0-0 by full time with Zidane to score in extra time for France. Betting is tiresome and pointless, you'll always loose in the end, with Bradley Wiggins odd on favourite for yellow it would be no use betting on him to win, it as you'd get pennies back the odds are so s


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