Category: Cycling
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UCI World Championships – Harrogate 2019
With the first home cycling World Championships since they were at Goodwood in 1982 (which very much predates my interest in cycling), I was always going to be spending late September in Yorkshire. There were a series of events held over a week, but I headed up after the time trials had taken place, reaching…
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Eight Seconds
This year is the 30th anniversary of what in my lifetime has been the greatest Tour de France of all time. In 1989, American Greg LeMond defeated Lauren Fignon by just 8 seconds with everything coming down to a unique final stage time trial. Usually, the end of the Tour is a processional stage followed…
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Need For The Bike by Paul Fournel
My Tour de France inspired cycling themed book marathon continues with Need For The Bike, a classic that I’d somehow never heard of. Paul Fournel is a French writer, poet, publisher, and cultural ambassador – a wonderful job description to have, I’m sure you’ll agree. He’s also been in love with bikes since he was…
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Racing Through the Dark: The Fall and Rise of David Millar
Continuing my non-stop cycling reading during this year’s Tour de France, I turned to a volume has been sitting around on my bookshelf* for a number of years – David Millar’s book where he digs into his life story, and in particular the years that he doped. I’ve always liked David Millar, and latterly he’s…
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The Cycling Podcast Mug
I was delighted to receive this in the post today. Stacey Snyder has been making these mugs during the Grand Tours this year to help raise some money for good causes in association with The Cycling Podcast (on which I am a producer). They sell out quick, so listen to The Cycling Podcast and check…
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Tour de France 2019 – Brussels Grand Depart
Sometime during Glastonbury (a blog still to come), I suddenly realised that it had been far too long since I’d been to see the Tour de France in person. 2015 was the last time I’d been there, when I’d taken my bike to the Pyrenees to both watch the race and do a little cycling.…
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Hire Bikes and Hire E-Bikes in London
There are now at least four major public bike hire schemes across London. There is the original TfL run Santander Cycles (aka Boris Bikes) using docking stations, the Chinese-owned dockless bike system Mobike, the electric-assist Lime bikes, and now the electric-assist Uber Jump bikes which launched this week in London. There was also Ofo, another…
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British Cyclo-Cross National Championships 2019
Last weekend, I headed down to the Cyclopark in Gravesend to see the British National Cyclo-cross Championships. These are held annually and the winner gets to wear their national flag on their jersey for a year (unless they go on to win the World Championships of course). The event was taking place at the Cyclopark,…
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Epping Autumn
A lovely autumn day meant I could both go for a cycle ride and take the drone out flying. The results are above.
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A Single Speed Conversion
You know how sometimes you’re idly looking for something on eBay, and you don’t find it. So you create a saved search for it on the off-chance that it comes up the future. Then you sit back and forget about it. Until… …One day an email drops into your inbox. The thing you were looking…
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Cycle to Work
This is a quick video I shot the other day of my ride to work. Shot with a cheap GoPro Hero 4 Session, I’ve run it through Microsoft’s Hyperlapse application. I’m not sure that app gets an awful lot of love, despite being really useful for making this kind of video. The stabilisation is immense,…
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Hertfordshire 100
Relive ‘A Very Wet Hertfordshire 100 (KM)’ You know how when you check the weather forecast for something, how you totally rely on it? Well that didn’t work out too well for me today. On Friday, on a whim, I signed up for the Hertfordshire 100, a cycling sportive that begins and ends not too…