from balance bikes to racing bikes; on-road and off-road
🚲 94.5miles, 5279m climbing, Cols: 🏔 Pic Arthaburu 1156m, 🏔 Col de Bagargi 1327m, 🏔 Col de Soudet 1520m, 🏔 Col de la Taillandère 1836m (3D video of route) After a good meal and a sound night’s sleep we set off early in only slightly damp kit, well aware that the day ahead was likely to be tough, but full of optimism. On […]
🚲 59.5miles, 2261m climbing, Cols: 🏔 Col d’Ibardin 317m, 🏔 Urtsualdea 550m, 🏔 Collado Anzola 585m, 🏔 Col d’Ispéguy 690m (3D video of route) A la gare After being dropped off by Dad at Poitiers, we found that the TGV, legendary for its speed and punctuality, was running an hour and 20 minutes late. We managed to book new tickets for a later connection […]
My quest to be better at 40 continues… (part I here) More skill at 40! At work I find my that, through teaching, my depth of understanding and therefore my ability improves. This seems to translate to cycling. Writing The Cyclocross Bible helped me think carefully about technique and this year I put that into […]
The cyclocross season is drawing to a close so it’s time for all those end-of-season blogs, photo montages and messages of thanks to sponsors! I feel I have a good excuse to write a season wrap-up blog (or two) this year though. Following surgery last week, I’m not fit to do anything else! I am […]
Yet again I feel compelled to put down on paper my Three Peaks story – for the three-fold purposes of therapy, self-publicity and, of course, hopefully, your enjoyment. If you’d like more information on the course and how to tackle the event, there’s a large section devoted to it in The Cyclocross Bible. As always […]
The change This season I decided to go over to the dark side and get disc brakes. I did this for a few reasons but the main one was that I wore through four carbon rims in one weekend of sandy Belgian mud last year (Superprestige, Diegem and GP Sven Nys, Baal). So, what to […]
What a whirlwind… not quite sure it wasn’t all a dream now we are back. Maybe that’s just because I’m now pretty tired, but more likely it’s because I can’t quite believe that a couple of days ago I was racing up the Muur van Geraardsbergen after some of the best cyclocross riders in the […]
