Diary of a Cycling Nobody

TAKK Adventurewear: A chance encounter on a mountain

Chance encounters between people have had a real influence on what has happened historically in the past, and it’s one thing that is guaranteed to continue to happen. I had a chance encounter recently. I was riding my ‘classic’ Cannondale

Welcome to the U.K. Mountain Bike Museum

I walk into the well lit entrance of the UK Mountain Bike Museum. I get a feeling of warmth and belonging, because mountain biking is ‘my thing’, and has been since 1994, when I got my first ever mountain bike

Bikes & Kites, or Kites and Bikes.

Once upon a time, and in quite recent living memory, our High Streets had record shops, book shops, magazine shops and even kite shops. Today, there are few of these shops, if any, as we well know. Fortunately, whilst the

The vintage bicycle market is NOT dead, but it’s NOT kicking either, and here’s why.

Back in November 2022, I wrote a post (link at bottom) about the vintage bike market, and questioning whether it was dead or alive. I can confirm that it is still alive, but not quite kicking. The restoration of bicycles

Plastic Fantastic: 3D Printing for my Cannondale Super V!

As someone who scores highly on the ‘Vintage-bike-ometer’, and specifically, but not exclusively Cannondales, I’m always on the look out to enhance the bikes that I have, and without compromising their place in bicycle design history and evolution. At the

Stoogeness Abound, on the trails and now on YouTube

Stoogeness Abound is a term I’m using to describe the rides I have on my new Stooge Speedbomb. In addition, I reckon my new term also sounds like the name of a weird rock group, and taking a slight Stooge-type-detour

So what do you expect from a really good bike shop? Before you answer, I’m going to tell you about my perfect bike shop. Firstly, location is key. My perfect bike shop would be situated on a crossroads that have traffic lights and which would be on my commute