By The latest in the series of Interesting Interviews sees us heading over to China to meet someone who I find truly inspirational and has earned some big respect for what he’s achieving for our cycling community. Let me introduce to you, Roc Fu. Q: Who is Roc Fu? A: I
Let’s Get Lost!
This post was inspired by an article I read recently in a 1986 edition of the first ever mountain bike magazine, The Fat Tire Flyer. The article was about somebody who regularly got lost on bike rides. I thought this ability to get lost could be turned into something quite
The Interesting Interview series – No.3: Charlie Kelly
My first meeting ever with the legend and top bloke that is Charlie Kelly was virtual, and sees him sitting in his computer chair, headset on and wearing a black Steve Peat ‘Won’t Back Down’ T-shirt. He stares at me through shiny eyes and tells me to get the first
Kash for Klunkers
I was listening to a track by the rock band, The Yidz, called Kash for Klunkers. The title of the track (marked E for Explicit by the way) appealed to me, because the term ‘Klunker’ is used to describe an iconic part of mountain biking history. More of this later
The Interesting Interview Series – No.2: Christoph Vetter
Welcome to the second in the series of ‘Interesting Interviews’. I first met Christoph when I had to give him some money to sign on for the Punk Maskara CX race. In return, he gave me a race number. His leadership of the whole event that day was legendary, as
The Brewery
In 1887, the “Gleadow, Dibb and Company Limited” was wound up, and a new company, “The Hull Brewery Company Limited”, was formed. It became a cultural icon of the northern, UK city that it was named after. One of my cycling routes around the city went past the big brewery.
Fingerpost
It’s obvious that when riding a bicycle, you experience the things around you a lot more intimately than you ever would in a car or motorcycle. You get chance to see, smell and hear stuff at a speed which creates many micro-experiences. For example, when I’m cycling in North Yorkshire,
The Interesting Interview Series No.1: Terrance Malone
Dear Reader, Since starting this blog, I’ve been lucky enough to meet some really amazing people, who have equally amazing and interesting stories to tell. So, in a brand new series of trying to share these people with you as well, here’s the first of the ‘Interesting Interviews’. Enjoy! ———————————————————————————————————-
Absolutely Trashed! and The Broken Windows Theory
Recently, I read an inspirational and interesting article in one of my favourite mountain bike (MTB) magazines, CRANKED (see link at bottom of page). It was about an organisation called Trash Free Trails (TFT), who have set about the task in the UK of collecting and reducing the amount of
86!
The reason this post is entitled 86 is not because it’s the country telephone code for China, nor is it because 86 is the atomic number of Radon, and neither is it because there are 86 metals on the modern Periodic Tables. No. To date, I have hammered out 86
