Just bike stuff

I’m definitely a ‘Glass half full’ type of person. I look for the positive energy, the inspirational people, the amazing situations and the good things all of the time. These things make me feel good, give me creative ideas and help take me to new phases, projects or crazes in

When I was a kid, teeth cleaning technique meant putting toothpaste on your brush and then vigorously brushing in an ‘up and down’ direction. Doing this correctly meant ‘no fillings and other work’ to be done at the dentist, which was never somewhere I ever wanted to visit in case

Apparently, kids don’t put posters on their walls anymore. In fact, postering up your bedroom wall has been on the decline since we hit this century and today, it is only the few (about 7% of girls and 12% of boys) that actually get their super heroes stuck or taped

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

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.

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

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