Tag: cycling
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Giro d’Italia
Today was the start of the Giro d’Italia. The Slovenian rider, Primož Roglič, won the first stage time trial up to the Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca high above Bolognia. British rider Simon Yates came second, while Londoner Tao Geoghegan Hart finished 7th. There are three weeks of riding to look forward to,…
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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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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…
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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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Dimanche à Vélo
Dimanche à vélo from Adam Bowie on Vimeo. From last Sunday, trying out a different way to mount my Garmin Virb Ultra 30. I’m not completely convinced that I wouldn’t be better off with a high end GoPro rather than this, although it does let you add data overlays to video very easily. Inevitably, the…
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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’