Dans la Forêt
A usual road from the port following the Arques valley to the first town inland where we turn over a small stone bridge and start up a narrow lane towards […]
North London Dirt III
The woodland, bridleways and quiet lanes beyond the confines of the M25 are not the reason I set an alarm and drag myself from bed on a dark wet morning […]
Grey
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
2018 – Another Twelve Month Cycle
Rule 5 Bikes Summer Send-Off
For the last three years Paul who owns Brighton bike shop Rule 5 Bikes has organised a fifty(ish) mile RoadOffRoad ride to celebrate the end of summer. A mix of […]
Pleasant Valleys Sunday
Fancy a short cx ride tomorrow? Nothing serious, just pissing about. Sounds good, yeah. Tilt at Fiveways at 9.30 good for you? Yep. See you there dude. Where we gonna […]
I should have stayed in bed
It’s dark when the alarm goes off. I think to myself “I can’t be bothered today” and doze off again thinking about getting the train to work a bit later. […]
Farewell White Chalk Hills Ultracross
Since 2012 there has been the annual tradition of the stupid cyclocross ride across the South Downs, usually on the Saturday between Christmas and New Year. I missed the middle […]
White Chalk Hills Ultracross 2015
Stretched out along the fence line, the peloton splinters into clumps of riders. Shadows tumbling down hillsides. Pedalling not against the gradient but the wind. Silhouettes scattered along the next […]
Happy Valley CX
A few photos from yesterday sitting in the sun, drinking beer, and heckling friends at the London X League race at Happy Valley, Brighton. Full set of photos over at […]
Mary Towneley Loop Cyclocross*
The Mary Towneley Loop is 47 miles of bridleway that forms part of the Pennine Bridleway, and straddles the border of Yorkshire and Lancashire. I was expecting this to be […]
London X League team champs
Wrapping up warm, and packing a saddlebag with a bigger coat, a bobble hat, a cow bell, and a flask of hot whisky mac I headed north into a relentless […]
Sumners Ponds Cyclocross
Last weekend my friends Andy and Tim at Velo Bagarreur put on the penultimate round of the London X League. There’s a full set of photos over on flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/themanfromicon/sets/72157648172963623/ […]
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