cycling – Page 6 – the man from icon

Restless

An overwhelming desire to be somewhere else. The overnight ferry from Newhaven to Dieppe. 130 kilometre potter around a corner of Normandy. Lunch and a nap on a beach. The evening ferry […]

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Scuffing the edges

Riding on the edge. Not the ragged edge but the blurred edge of what I think is possible. Travelling along ancient ways, drove roads and holloways. Ignoring the red and […]

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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 […]

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The Lanes – Gorham’s Lane

Starting in the Ouse Valley Gorham’s Lane is essentially a dead end, you’re unlikely to ride up it unless you live in the tiny village of Telscombe hiding in a […]

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The Man of Kent 300

Start, kilometre 0 – Tonbridge, Saturday 20:30 Proof of passage: Sainsbury till receipt, 2 litre bottle of Evian Preparations for this overnight perm haven’t exactly been perfect. Last night George […]

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The Sussex Spring Classic

A couple of years ago I planned a ride for the Sunday of Paris-Roubaix incorporating some inappropriate sections for road bikes on skinny tyres. There are no cobbles or secteurs […]

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Vuelta de Los Picos // Dia 6 // Oviedo to Asturias Airport

The alarms go off at 7am. Today should be a […]

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Vuelta de Los Picos // Dia 5 // Riaño to Oviedo

We wake up to a very different view out of […]

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Vuelta de Los Picos // Dia 4 // Riaño to Cain de Valdeón to Riaño

We wake up to sunlight streaming through the apartment windows. […]

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Vuelta de Los Picos // Dia 3 // Potes to Riaño

The original plan for today was to ride up to […]

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Vuelta de Los Picos // Dia 2 // Cangas de Onis to Potes

Whilst I breakfast on bread, ham and cheese and watch […]

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Vuelta de Los Picos // Dia 1 // Asturias airport to Cangas de Onis

As our flight descends over the Atlantic Ocean towards the […]

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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. […]

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

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

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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 […]

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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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