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2013 Rapha Festive 500 [part 2]

Day 3 – A tale of two rides As is tradition it’s time for the Boxing Day Century (imperial, not metric). I say tradition, but what I mean is I […]

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2013 Rapha Festive 500 [part 1]

Pre The weather forecast for the next week looks well iffy so I’m in two minds whether to even start a Festive 500 attempt. I did also vow last year […]

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Tourist Trophy 2013 // Stage 12 // December // The same, but different

For the final official Tourist Trophy ride of the year […]

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Tourist Trophy 2013 // Stage 11 // November // Cornwall

The sun is rising into an otherwise empty sky as […]

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Tour of Britain

Back in January I read about a challenge that my friend Jo Burt posted on the road.cc website, the Tourist Trophy. The idea was simple – to go and ride […]

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Coast

A zig-zag route with a profile like saw teeth. Narrow lanes between high hedges, rough and twisting. Stick and stones, mud and leaves, over pitted tarmac. Gently turning into a corner the front […]

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Tourist Trophy 2013 // Stage 10 // October // Peaks and troughs

I’m on Winnats Pass in Derbyshire. I’m lying on the […]

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The long way round

Shutting the front door whilst the nearly full moon still hangs over the city to the east I head west. The sun is yet to break cover. Where the sky […]

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as you crest Chapel Hill…

Look left you’ll see probably my favourite view in Sussex. I never tire of the view west. It’s up against some stiff competition – Steyning Bowl, the Weald when you look […]

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Two

Two years ago today I phoned up a bike shop to enquire about a Trek 1.1 they had in the sale. A week later I handed over 450 quid and started cycling again. In […]

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White Chalk Hills Cyclocross (part three)

So, once the kids, women and vets had really mashed up the course the seniors were released. It wasn’t pretty… Full set on Flickr

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White Chalk Hills Cyclocross (part two)

Some photos from the Juniors, Womens and Vets races. Full set on Flickr Senior race photos coming soon

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White Chalk Hills Cyclocross (part one)

Sat in the pub surrounded by Long Man ale and tired, smiling faces. It can only have been the inaugural White Chalk Hills CX race organised by Velo Morphe

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Tourist Trophy 2013 // Stage 9 // September // The Black Mountains

The YHA weren’t lying when they said the Wye Valley […]

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Tourist Trophy 2013 // Stage 8b // August // Norfolk

The next day I ride north into Norfolk to meet […]

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Tourist Trophy 2013 // Stage 8a // August // Suffolk

Riding the coastal flat lands of Suffolk, an edge of […]

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