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2018 – Another Twelve Month Cycle

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Armastice Day 200

After storms on the south coast and a rough crossing we rumble down the ferry ramp into France in calm, dry weather. It’s really early, a bit after 4am local […]

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Newhaven to Nyhavn

SATURDAY The smell of baking bread wafts through the air as I climb the hill away from the ferry. The streets are still and quiet. Beyond the light pollution stars […]

cycling

I’m Not Sure About This

I’ve had itchy pedals since I got back from the Alps in the summer. After five days of riding across Belgium and France (and a tiny bit of Switzerland) I […]

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London X League round 1 – Stanmer Park, Brighton – September 2017

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M+1

In 1990 I went off to Canterbury School of Art in Kent as a fresh faced scrawny twenty year old taking my Raleigh Scirocco racing bike with me. Not only […]

cycling

Three is the Magic Number

A while back my friend Ollie from work said he wanted to ride up Mont Ventoux for his fortieth birthday. I mentioned that my friends Jo, George and Oli had, […]

cycling

Alpine Weekender

Thursday “Not here, you need to be at the North Terminal”. I really should have checked my boarding pass before I joined the huge queue to drop off my bike […]

audax

a tour of Essex with forays over the border into Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, and Suffolk biplanes over rolling Cambridgeshire fields, skylark song the aural equivalent to the shapes of the wind […]

cycling

Bespoked 2016 weekender

Since first visiting the Bespoked Handmade Bicycle Show in Bristol a few years back the thought of riding to (and maybe from) the show has been floating around my head. […]

cycling

Jo Burt x Reilly Cycleworks

I’ll be riding down to Bristol over the next couple of days with Jo Burt to visit the Bespoked handbuilt bike show. Jo is riding a bike newly built by […]

audax

The Shark [Brevet des Grimpeurs du Sud 2016 ride #2]

Waiting in an underground car park early in the morning […]

cycling

Road to Rouen

I was invited by the nice people over at Victor and Liberty to write something for their blog. They asked a couple of weeks before I had a day trip […]

audax

Kent Invicta Grimpeur [Brevet des Grimpeurs du Sud 2016 ride #1]

A quiet, pretty corner of Kent, lanes tucked away between […]

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2016 London X League team championships

Went and heckled friends at the 2016 London X League cyclocross team champs on Sunday. Wasn’t as revoltingly cold as last year. Then again I got a lift up with […]

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2018 – Another Twelve Month Cycle

Armastice Day 200

Newhaven to Nyhavn

I’m Not Sure About This

Chianti Classico

London X League round 1 – Stanmer Park, Brighton – September 2017

M+1

Three is the Magic Number

Alpine Weekender

Kingdom of the East Saxons

Bespoked 2016 weekender

Jo Burt x Reilly Cycleworks

The Shark [Brevet des Grimpeurs du Sud 2016 ride #2]

Road to Rouen

Kent Invicta Grimpeur [Brevet des Grimpeurs du Sud 2016 ride #1]

2016 London X League team championships