Tag: cycling
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A Microadventure in the Fenlands
A Fenland Microadventure from Adam Bowie on Vimeo. I’ve been meaning to do one of these for ages. I can’t remember what path of serendipity sent me in the direction of Alastair Humphreys and his blog, but I’ve been reading it for quite a while now. He describes himself as an adventurer, author and motivational…
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Tour of Cambridgeshire Gran Frondo
“This is a race!” That’s what the chap on the public address tannoy kept telling us as we queued up in our pens for Sunday’s start of the UK’s first ever Gran Frondo. Technically it was a race. And those keen club riders were in a front pen which would be let off first and…
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Tour de Yorkshire 2015
I spent a couple of days of the Bank Holiday weekend up in Yorkshire watching the cycling. This was the first outing of the Tour de Yorkshire, and you can only see it improving – at least if Yorkshire is willing to go on funding it (they’ve signed a 10 year deal with ASO). A…
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Paris – Roubaix 2015
When I visited Gent six weeks or so ago, it was to see the city and take in a little bit of cycling. Hence I got to watch Omloop Het Nieuswblad and Kuurne Brussels Kuurne. The former was a more interesting race and I duly found a nice bit of a cobbled ‘berg to view…
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Pavé
This weekend sees the Tour of Flanders, and next weekend is Paris – Roubaix. Since it’s been a while since I last did some screen printing, I thought I’d try to make a print based on the cobbled classics. I’m quite pleased with the results, but I thought I’d run through my process. I actually…
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Staying Alive in London on a Bike
While I wouldn’t say I was a cycling activist, I am definitely a cycling advocate. I love to talk about all forms of cycling, and have always enjoyed being out on a bike. I’ll dispense advice, rave about how wonderful Bromptons are, spend hours watching cycling on Eurosport, go out and take photos of cyclists,…
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Kuurne Brussels Kuurne 2015
If Omloop Het Nieuwsblad is for the tough guys of the peleton, then Kuurne Brussels Kuurne is a sprinters’ race. The two come together over the last weekend of February or the first weekend of March, although they seem to have different promoters. That also possibly explains why no broadcaster took the more exciting Het…
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Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2015
With a couple of days holiday to use up before the end of February, and not being too certain where to go, a friend suggested that Ghent was nice. I’d never been, and then I realised that if I did go, it’d be in time for the “Opening Weekend” of the Spring Classics – the…
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Revolution – Round 1
In my ongoing quest to get through all the photos I’ve previously taken and been sitting on, we reach this October 2014 event – the first round of the UK track competition, Revolution. To put this in perspective, they’ve just had Round 4. And it’s coming back to London in a few weeks, so I…
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Smithfield Nocturne 2014
Yes, I’m still going through photos I talk last year, but somehow never got around to publishing. For these we go back more than six months for the annual Smithfield Nocturne in Smithfield Market. A few here, and loads more on Flickr.
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Cyclo Cross World Cup – Part 2 – Men’s Race
As well as photos of the women’s race I also took photos of the men’s race, the weekend before last in Milton Keynes. Cyclo cross seems to have had something of a resurgence in the UK over the last few years. But then again, so has cycling in general. I’ve been going to the Rapha…
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Cyclo Cross World Cup – Milton Keynes 2014 – Part 1
Over the weekend, it was the Milton Keynes round of the UCI’s Cyclo Cross World Cup. It’s the first time a round of this event has taken place outside mainland Europe. So definitely worth a 30 minute train ride up to see it! The event took place on a specially built course in Campbell Park,…