Sometimes, there are contradictions and tensions in the message when talking about ānew innovationā and āheritageā in the same sentence, unless you are a marketeer and you use heritage as āthe hookā for selling a new innovation. Iām using the two separately in this post, but both will be complimentary
The Interesting Interview Series – No.6: Stumpy
To date, the Interesting Interview Series has focussed on people and their lives. This interview is with a bike. All used bikes have good stories to tell, but they are never given the chance to get their adventures into print, so this could be a world first (maybe). The Specialized
The Interesting Interview Series – No.5: Jacquie Phelan
Welcome to āInteresting Interviewā No: 5 with some passionate and transparent words and thoughts of THE mountain biking legend, Jacquie Phelan. Our cycling and MTB industry continues to develop technologically and culturally at pace, and it is really important to understand where it all came from, and particularly from the pioneers that
Once a bedroom wall decorator, always a wall decorator?
Apparently, kids donāt 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
The Interesting Interview Series – No.4: Roc Fu
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 heās achieving for our cycling community. Let me introduce to you, Roc Fu. Q: Who is Roc Fu? A: I
Letās 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 āWonāt Back Downā 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 āKlunkerā 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 āInteresting Interviewsā. 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 āGleadow, Dibb and Company Limitedā 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.