By Our cycling community, on-line social media and off-line, has some real bike-snobs in it. I ride the track, road, touring, Time Trials, MTB, eMTB, vintage stuff, and the occasional odd-curiosity bike, so I think I’m pretty representative of all parts of the cycling community. However, we do have some serious
That perfect bike Photo
Here’s a thought. Have you ever taken the perfect bike picture, or can you remember the bike photo that’s stuck with you forever? Iconic photos like the Steve jobs book cover or Marilyn Monroe’s flying dress shot are the type of globally recognised photos, and not just because of the
Social Media International Rescue
It’s great to feel a sense of self achievement and satisfaction whilst also recognising that it couldn’t have been done without the help of others. It is also amazing that the help has been based on good faith, a willingness to support, and all based on a photograph and short
Have you ever……..?
Have you ever struggled to resist pressing that button even though you know something is going to go wrong? Humans press buttons every day, but buttons aren’t always easy to use, assess the outcome of, or understand the implications of. Also, when you’ve pressed the button and nothing has happened
The Dracula ride and Friday 13th 2020
At the beginning of the year, I had decided to do a bike ride I’d often thought about, but hadn’t ever got round to doing anything about. The bike ride would be a coast ride, about 2 hours-ish in duration and would end up with a great meal with my
Stickers or decals? Wire ties, cable ties, zip ties or tie wraps?
This might be a random post, but here goes anyway……. and I’ll deal with the stickers first. Do you have a fascination with the good old ‘sticker’? Where I come from, the classic self-adhesive label, which some argue, was invented in 1935 by a Mr R Stanton Avery, is called
Punk Maskara IV – The Swiss Spring Classic race
Cast your mind back through all of the cycling events that you have ever ridden in, and then pick the best one. Why did you pick this particular one? Because you won it? Because you did it with friends? Because the weather was good and the scenery spectacular? Because you
Oh Marin!….”Where were you while we were getting high?”
When Oasis wrote the lyric back in 1996 which I’ve used in the title to this post, I’m sure it wasn’t related to a bicycle, and the 2009 Marin Rift Zone I’m referring to certainly isn’t the stellar explosion ‘Champagne Supernova’ that the song was about. Some say, rightly or
The ‘Do-it-Yourself’ TT bike – The Final Part
As a follow-on to the two previous posts about this Time Trial (TT) bike build (if you haven’t read them before, you can check them out by just putting ‘Time Trial’ into the search bar), I can announce, that the last piece of the TT bike jigsaw has finally turned
The Carbon Raven
When did you last see or hear a Raven? I’m not talking about seeing or hearing the 1970s-80s British Heavy Metal band, Raven. This was the band set up by the two Gallagher brothers, and not Noel and Liam from Manchester, UK, who also started the globally successful band, Oasis,