-
How To Fix A Creaky Press Fit Bottom Bracket
There’s nothing more annoying or demoralising than that sinking feeling you get when you’re rolling silently, like a gentle breeze, along a glass smooth tarmac surface on your best road bike, and that rhythmic eek, eek, eek, eek randomly starts up.
-
The Odd British Time Trial Tradition
The club time trial scene is peculiar to the UK. It’s odd and draws parallels with the good ‘ol rural English cricket match. There’s the tiny village hall, often used for the cubs and scouts on the edge of an immaculate village green nestled among thatched cottages.
-
The Truth About Rim Tape: A Comprehensive Guide
Rim tape, the cause of so much pain we never knew we suffered…
-
How To Build A Zwift Time Trial Team
Zwift team time trials are fascinating. I’ve been transfixed and thoroughly entertained by the pre and post race chat in our discord team channels…
-
Across Wales And Back In A Weekend – pt3
The Aftermath… A look into what it actually feels like having ridden 379 miles over nearly 9,000 meters of elevation 2 days? The mental and physical ups and downs as you recover. This is the third and final part of the Bryan Chapman Memorial ride.
-
Across Wales And Back In A Weekend – pt2
The Grands Depart. The second of a three part Bryan Champan Memorial ride report. This covers the ride itself. From leaving Chepstow at the break of dawn to the return, some 40 hours later…
-
Across Wales & Back In A Weekend – pt1
It was a glossy promo video that hooked me. Hard-men and hard women on beautiful artisan racing bicycles powering through the rugged Welsh countryside, suffering horrendously in adverse conditions, whilst looking suitably pained and weathered. Could I do this? Could I ride Wales South to North and back again within a 40-hour window? I so…
-
End Of The ZRL Season 1 – Titans Grove
Six was it? Not sure, but if memory serves, there were a total of six events in ‘Season 1’ of the latest ZRL series of races. This, the last race of the season, was oversubscribed again. We had too many riders in the team willing to race. That’s a great problem to have.
-
Popping Out For Some Crisp Sea Air
The plan was to go to bed by 9pm. Plans are meant to be broken, right? Well, this time I was determined to prep the bike and make sure all my stuff was ready for a fast, I mean with absolutely no faffing, get-away. The car was ready for collection from the garage where I’d…
-
Soho – A Short Story Of Dentistry And Money
I never liked the dentist! Submissively lying back, mouth open, whilst someone pokes their nitrile-gloved hands around your teeth and gums, pulling back your lips, investigating every nook and cranny under an intense spotlight. “You ok?” she’ll say as you suffer the big guns of metal surgical tools prodding under the gum line and into…
-
How To Restore A V1 Wahoo Kickr
Now, if I could source those parts, we may be able to rebuild her cap’n…
-
The Arrival Of A Broken Wahoo Kickr
A club mate of mine, who is a superb human being, offered to let me have an old broken, Wahoo Kickr he had lying around, almost as an ‘If you can fix that old pile of crap you can keep it’ type of challenge. It was a red rag to a bull……
-
How To Captain A Zwift Team Of Strangers
I’d been the captain of my cycling club’s B category Zwift racing team for two seasons. This season I was being asked to run a new C cat team of riders recruited online…
-
A Loop Of The UK’s Côte d’Azur
There’s a feeling that’s hard to pin down when you go for a relaxed ride along the beach on a balmy summer evening. It’s kind of magical and serene…
-
Full On – The Urban Hill Climb Race
Swains Pain, as some in London affectionately call it, is a murderously tough, short, and in places very steep, stretch of tarmac that cuts through Highgate Cemetery, where many rich and famous have their final resting place. It’s also a place of pilgrimage for London based cyclists to come and hone their hill climbing abilities.
-
The Awesome “Moonrakers & Sunseekers” 2021: Audax UK
I’m late to the review party for the 2021 event, but having had such a great time, and the event being so well organised by Will and his crew, I feel bound to tell the story…
-
Return Of The Zwift – Back On The Gain Train
The return to indoor cycling after enjoying a sweltering summer outdoors.
-
Getting To Know One Of The Death Machines
My encounter with a vertical milling machine in the hope I’m able to develop my ability to make and repair bike parts!
-
My First Experience With Zwift & Online Racing
How, with the help of my friends, I got into to the wonderful world of indoor riding and racing, what I learned, and the shock to the system.
-
My Fourth Dunwich Dynamo Double – The Suffering
Tales of a magical, glittery, ultra endurance, midsummer night ride, to greet the rising sun at the Norfolk coast, during the hottest day on record.
-
A Boy And A Bicycle – Part 2
Painting a picture of when, as a teen, I succumbed to the allure of a rock and roll lifestyle, left home for London, and eschewed any thought of sport or fitness to seek fame and fortune.
-
A Boy And A Bicycle – Part 1
I don’t remember exactly what originally attracted me to riding bikes in my early teens. Was it the sense of freedom? Did I want to go kerb crawling on two wheels to pick up a date? Was I into causing havoc and road rage by cycling on the pavements and running red lights? Whatever the…