the man from icon

No one bats an eyelid, raises an eyebrow, or tuts when a suggestion is made to drop down from the Downs to find coffee and some tarmac, maybe even the […]

cyclocross

Between the Storms

As the day tilts into action a thin gauze of cloud stretches across the sky. A meek light casts weak ghost shadows, there out of the edge of vision but […]

cycling

The Old Ways and New Ways

Jump on a train west to Chichester to make the most of the forecast weather. Head for home with the wind on my back and scudding clouds and an intermittent […]

france

Upturned

Crossing the bridge over the river the thick cold mist bites. Back in the village frozen droplets clung to the trees lining the road out. The cemetery across the field […]

france

That didn’t go to plan

Pull my phone from gilet pocket and tap WhatsApp. Aborted. Legs and head both gone. Heading back to Dieppe, should be there by 1pm. Three course lunch and beers? Hit […]

audax

Randonneur Round The Year?

Whilst idly plotting some routes earlier I realised that the last two months I’ve done 200 kilometre rides in France, both of them logged as DIY by GPS audaxes. There’s […]

cycling

2019 photo album

commuting

Ernest Journal issue no.9

I wrote something about the South Downs and familiarity of place through the repetition of commuting by bike for issue 9 of Ernest Journal. There a whole load of interesting […]

cyclocross

Duinencross

Having had barely a handful of hours kip on the ferry the night before last plus the four thirty start for the two hundred plus kilometres from Dieppe to Dunkirk […]

france

De la Med à la Manche – part II

Wednesday It’s pitch black when I wake up, I can hear rain outside. This isn’t surprising as it was forecast. I doze off again but my 6am alarm rouses me […]

france

De la Med à la Manche – part I

Saturday I tap the gear shift button. Nothing. Fucking fuck! I’ve just snagged the di2 cable in the seat clamp rebuilding the bike outside Montpelier airport and now I have […]

france

Tour des Trois Vallees 2019

cycling

From the South Downs to North London

Saturday – Rule 5 Bikes Summer Send Off Meet up with friends at Freedom Bikes, sign on and collect brevet card…and a pen, as usual I’ve forgotten to bring one. […]

bikepacking

Transcontinental no.7 – Part 2

I pull into a tiny petrol station in the small Croation border town of Ilok to buy water as I’m almost out. I would have bought some before leaving Serbia […]

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the man from icon

Spring is in the Air

Drowning In Sunlight

Grey

Between the Storms

The Old Ways and New Ways

Upturned

That didn’t go to plan

Randonneur Round The Year?

2019 photo album

Ernest Journal issue no.9

Duinencross

De la Med à la Manche – part II

De la Med à la Manche – part I

Tour des Trois Vallees 2019

From the South Downs to North London

Transcontinental no.7 – Part 2