Just bike stuff

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,

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

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

When the offerings that the cycling world present to us have a high level of sameness, it forces designers to do something different, something out of the box, something perceived as a bit weird at first sight, or even a bit quirky. Quirky is a strange English word that means

Apparently, the word August is derived from the Latin word augere, meaning “to increase,” and it is also the basis for the Latin name, Augustus, which means “esteemed” or “venerable”, and was a title given to Roman emperors. Anyway, right now, it’s August, and the end of it to be

I know the title of this post sounds like a pub, and maybe there is one in the world somewhere proudly bearing this name. However, it’s not what I intended. That pink rose in the featured image is named after the famous horticulturalist and garden designer, Gertrude Jekyll. It has

Whilst I’m always inspired by what people do, create and experience in the cycling world, there are a number of things, seven specifically, that are really boring in my view. I know that what is boring for one person can be very interesting to another, but still, there’s some stuff

I’ve got this theory. If you think about the best two bikes that you’ve ever owned, and you have to choose one as the best, it won’t necessarily be the bike with the highest level of capability or highest cost that wins. This theory is not dedicated to the hard

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