S10 Ep150: Explore | Tour d'Écosse stage 8: Leith – Dunfermline
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4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
It’s a relatively short stage but there’s a deceptive amount of climbing on the course today and Simon is beginning to feel it. His efforts to slow Lionel down come to nothing.
Tired legs does not explain the sinking feeling the pair get when they reach Cowdenbeath…
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| 0:00.0 | Why is there some kind of sandbag in my bottle cage Simon? |
| 0:07.0 | Oh look at that. How did that happen? |
| 0:11.0 | What is it and where has it come from? |
| 0:13.0 | Must be just something to do in today's stage. |
| 0:16.0 | We must have, the organisers must have made it so we have to carry a little bit of extra weight around. |
| 0:23.0 | Who knows? |
| 0:25.0 | I mean it's not very well balanced. I think it's going to fall off the minute I pedal. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm not too worried. |
| 0:32.0 | If you are worried I can maybe empty the contents of the bag right into your front bar bag things. |
| 0:37.0 | Maybe something to your pockets. |
| 0:40.0 | We can adapt. |
| 0:43.0 | Oh dear. |
| 0:45.0 | No I'd like to just ride as I am if that's right. |
| 0:50.0 | I'm not that good. |
| 0:57.0 | The Scottish FA Cup 4th round, Reconcidied Nill, Dundee United 1. |
| 1:02.0 | Clyde Bank against a burning as a lead kick off. |
| 1:05.0 | Dundee 1, Better Bank Tissle 1. |
| 1:08.0 | Happened academic 1. |
| 1:10.0 | By the well, 2. |
| 1:12.0 | Simon's attempts to weigh me down with sandbags like I'm some kind of horse in a handicap race would do to fail of course |
| 1:18.0 | because I was feeling pretty sprightly ahead of stage 8. |
| 1:21.0 | The penultimate one in this first block of tour de cost stages. |
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