Montreal Hosts World Championship Road Race
Greetings from Tibbs. I wore the jersey of the MBC this afternoon at the UCI World Championships Road Race. An exciting event. I started off at the corner of Côte de Neiges and Souvenir. There is a tough right hand turn onto CdesN at speed. For the next pass of the leaders and peloton I cycled along to chemin Polytechnique, a climb that continuously gets steeper. The crowd along this stretch was loud and wild, very festive. They seemed to inspire the racers as they flew up the hill, quite impressive. I was able to get a shot of the eventual winner being chased by another rider at the corner of Gatineau and Marecha, the location of a fire station, an extremely quick 90 degree turn. My most dramatic posting was up on a couple of large concrete construction blocks at the bottom of the long ramp below the main pavilion of UdeM. Frightening to wa...
