Category: Cycling
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RideLondon Classique 2018
This last weekend saw a massive collision of all things cycling. It was the final weekend of the Tour de France – fabulously won by Geraint Thomas. That had been pushed back a week to stay clear of the World Cup. Meanwhile it was also the Saturday night of the Dunwich Dynamo, from London Fields…
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Geraint Thomas Wins the Tour
It has been thrilling over these last three weeks to see one of cycling’s real Mr Nice Guys win the Tour. I couldn’t say exactly when I first became aware of him, but Britain’s success on the track meant that I’d seen him pick up medals ahead of his gold at the Beijing Olympics in…
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Empty Essex
Empty Essex from Adam Bowie on Vimeo. Empty Essex is the name of ride in Jack Thurston’s excellent Lost Lanes book (NB. The first one. There have been two others since, for Wales and the West Country). The route starts in Southminster in Essex, heading out to Bradwell-on-Sea and past the St Peter-on-the-Wall chapel on…
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London Nocturne 2018
[Scroll down for more photos – and even more over on Flickr] I like to get along to the London Nocturne when I can – the Mr Porter London Nocturne to give it its proper title. There are a series of races across the afternoon and into the evening. Earlier in the day, before I…
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Trigger’s Broom
There’s a great gag from an episode of Only Fools and Horses where street sweeper Trigger has been rewarded by his local council for using the same broom for 20 years. “This old broom has had 17 new heads and 14 new handles in its time.” This is actually an example of Theseus’s paradox, a…
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Ride to Cambridge
Saturday was a nice day for a ride. Cambridge Ride from Adam Bowie on Vimeo. And via Relive, here is the route I took. Relive ‘Ride to Cambridge’
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Giro D’Italia – T-Shirt
It has been a while since I screen-printed anything, so with Simon Yates in the Maglia Rosa at the moment, winning today’s stage at the Gran Sasso d’Italia, I made the t-shirt above. I’m reasonably happy with it, and that’s a treated image of Fausto Coppi on the right, the five times winner of the…
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Garmin Varia RTL510
I seem to have a constant battle with rear lights on my bikes. The main problem is that I use a saddlebag on my full-size bike, and attaching a bike light to it is a seemingly simple task, but tends not to be brilliant. If you have enough seat-post showing, then placing the light below…
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Right Hooked – A Near Miss
A Ford Fiesta turns right oblivious of me being in a cycle lane along the right hand side of the road. This is known as a left-, or in this instance, right-hook. A near miss. The road is Maple Street which, unusually, has a separated cycle lane along the right-hand side of the road rather…
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Wicken Fen: A Cycle Ride from Ely to Cambridge – Stuck in Draft #4
Here’s a cycle ride I took in April 2016. I think the winter and spring months are quite a nice time to do this ride. It’s not especially demanding and is easy to reach from London with direct trains from King’s Cross. Another in my series, Stuck in Draft. Reading Rain recently, I realised that…
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A Shopping Failure – Stuck in Drafts #1
Note: This was written several months ago, but for some reason I never published it at the time. Hence the “Stuck in Drafts” label. I recently visited The Cycle Show at the Birmingham. It was an entertaining – if slightly tiring day. Obviously it’s a bit of a trek from my part of North London,…
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Lights
It has been a week since British Summer Time ended, the clocks went back an hour, and suddenly the sun is setting around 4:30pm. If you ride a bike, and work regular hours, that means that you’re going to be cycling home in the dark. Now I’m a pretty live-and-let-live cyclist, in that I’m not…