Category: Bike Rides
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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Return Of The Zwift – Back On The Gain Train
The return to indoor cycling after enjoying a sweltering summer outdoors.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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…
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My Backstory
As a teen, I joined a cycling club and started racing. Of course, I gave “all that nonsense” up the moment “rock ‘n’ roll” beckoned. There followed a long gap in time and a massive hit to my weight and fitness. Then, more than 10 years ago, inspired by my nephew asking me to help…