Back in May was my 40th birthday and my lovely partner, @abigailthompson and Richard Mitchelson colluded in secrecy (Abi snuck in to my Twitter account to get Richard’s contact details - how very dare she!) to get me a dream present. I had been after an iconic cycling related framed print for a while and [...]
August 20, 2010
This is the fictional account of Tim Krabbe, the rider and author, who is competing in a tough mountainous one day race called the Tour de Mont Aigoual. It follows his, sometimes surreal, wondering mind as he occupies himself over the steep climbs of the day. From the start we find out that he is an [...]
August 11, 2010
Whilst I was away I got time to read this rather marvelous book Bad Blood by Jeremy Whittle about doping in Cycling. Prior to reading it, whilst not being totally naive, I had pretty much assumed that because of the apparently fewer positive tests in the last two seasons and since the dark days of the [...]
August 6, 2010
After watching my first ever pro-cycling race stage at this year Tour de France I thought I would put together a few of my favorite pictures from the set on my Flickr stream One of things about watching cycling races, is that basically you are way better off watching it on the telly. Eurosport have decent coverage, [...]
May 4, 2009
The final ride before next Sunday's 68 mile mid-route Duncton Sportive was a 30 mile round trip from Brighton to Henfield, via Ditchling and Poynings. The overall aim was to taper the distance down from last Wednesday's 50 mile ride and concentrate on speed a little bit more.
August 23, 2010
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