Notes · Three
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Three notes. One about four days in a mould, one about a woman who has climbed the same col two hundred and six times, and one about ninety seconds.
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04 February 2026
Ninety-six hours in the mould
Four days, five hundred pieces of cloth and one cure. What actually happens to a Col between Monday morning and Thursday night.
Making -
12 May 2025
Two hundred hairpins
Aurélie Bonnet has ridden the Colombière two hundred and six times. We went with her on the two hundred and seventh, at half past five in the morning.
Riding -
19 September 2024
Ninety seconds, and where they come from
Two winters in the tunnel at Saint-Cyr, one argument about seat tubes, and the numbers that decided the Vire.
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