Sentence examples for * the descents from inspiring English sources

But on the descents, I reckoned that my sleeker road bike would have been far faster.

Make sure your brakes work well for the descents, chain is cleaned down and lubed up and check for punctures or things stuck in your tyres.

On the descents, at times Froome and his Sky team-mates could be seen taking the hairpins at walking pace with their brakes locked.

I thought it would open some gaps on the descents but I needed it to be harder earlier in the race.

On the descents, the riders knife by at fifty miles an hour, which is thrilling to behold, unless you think about their bodily integrity, in which case it seems impossible that any of them will survive.

The piece is rich in allusion, with tableaux echoing the Descents from the Cross of Caravaggio and Rubens, and swaying friezes of linked figures recalling Sargent's paintings of mustard-gas victims.

The twice-a-day commercial flights from Jordan that carry most reporters into Baghdad, with their spiraling, missile-evading, heart-in-the-mouth descents from 30,000 feet to the runway, are rarely full these days.

Beginners can wobble along level tracks while experienced riders take on the technical descents of the Ridge Rides.

Home prices in Las Vegas are down by 60 percent from 2006 in one of the steepest descents in modern times.

"It's not right to say I attacked Roberto - I just did one of the best descents of my life and he couldn't follow".

Mr. Esrey's downfall stands out from the epic descents of some other noted telecommunications executives who rode the industry boom of the late 1990's, only to leave under financial clouds -- most notably Gary Winnick of Global Crossing and Bernard J. Ebbers of WorldCom.