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    The Pull of the Bike
    • Aug 4, 2020
    • 9 min

    The Pull of the Bike

    These are the strangest of times. Lock down, working from home, furlough and strangest of all I only went and published a book. When the ...
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    Splitting from the Family
    • May 9, 2020
    • 7 min

    Splitting from the Family

    My great friend and fellow cycling fanatic, Stephen Murphy, recently returned from a family holiday in Croatia. His first taste of Croatia!
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    Zagreb with Kids
    • Apr 27, 2020
    • 4 min

    Zagreb with Kids

    How long does a haircut take? For me and my thinning hair, anything more than 15 minutes is unacceptable. As it happens this is also th...
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    Selle Italia SLR Superflow Saddle - A new necessity for indoor training
    • Apr 20, 2020
    • 3 min

    Selle Italia SLR Superflow Saddle - A new necessity for indoor training

    It has, so far, been nothing short of a revelation. Whilst it will not work miracles and make training on the indoor training anything but
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    Lock Down - A Day in the Life
    • Apr 2, 2020
    • 7 min

    Lock Down - A Day in the Life

    In the movies, the descent into the lock down of cities is portrayed as chaotic. There is anarchy. But we know now that the movies are w...
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    Tour de France 2020 - A race unseen?
    • Mar 31, 2020
    • 5 min

    Tour de France 2020 - A race unseen?

    When I heard that plans were being considered for the 2020 Tour de France behind closed-doors due to the lock-down forced upon France in ...
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    Covid-19 and Cycling
    • Mar 29, 2020
    • 4 min

    Covid-19 and Cycling

    These are the strangest of times. A country in lock-down is no longer the preserve of post-apocalyptic films.
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    Free Fallin'
    • Feb 21, 2020
    • 5 min

    Free Fallin'

    It has been a while since I have written here. The reason? I fell out of a tree. I fractured a rib. Yes you read that correctly. I ...
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    Shipping your bike abroad
    • Jan 14, 2020
    • 4 min

    Shipping your bike abroad

    How to pack your bike to enjoy it abroad.
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    Looking back on 2019
    • Jan 4, 2020
    • 4 min

    Looking back on 2019

    It has certainly not felt like a vintage cycling year and the stats back me up. My 2019 cycling stats did not make for pleasant reading. ...
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    Running Back in Time - The Forgotten Partisan Hospital
    • Jan 2, 2020
    • 6 min

    Running Back in Time - The Forgotten Partisan Hospital

    Vojnic is a sleepy little place in Croatia where not much happens. Although all is quiet today this small farming village has seen more ...
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    In 2020 don't give your money to the gym...
    • Dec 31, 2019
    • 5 min

    In 2020 don't give your money to the gym...

    It is that time of the year when thoughts turn to the New Year and with it resolutions both realistic and unrealistic.
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    Running Rio - Conference Stress Buster
    • Dec 20, 2019
    • 5 min

    Running Rio - Conference Stress Buster

    As much as I would love to spend all my time riding my bike, running and writing witty prose I, like most people in the world, have to do...
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    • Dec 13, 2019
    • 3 min

    Christmas Gifts a Cyclist Really Wants

    Get the cyclist in your life something they will really like for Christmas. Not a novelty gift in sight.
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    Enjoying the last days of Summer
    • Sep 22, 2019
    • 4 min

    Enjoying the last days of Summer

    When the weatherman tells you the last day of summer is coming, then this is something that has to be taken very seriously in Scotland. ...
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    So you bought a bike…what else do you need to buy?
    • Sep 18, 2019
    • 5 min

    So you bought a bike…what else do you need to buy?

    You have put in countless hours researching the perfect road bike for your budget and you are itching to get out on the open roads, no do...
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    My Cycling Heroes
    • Sep 10, 2019
    • 8 min

    My Cycling Heroes

    Apropos of nothing I thought I would compose a list of my favourite professional cyclists in the modern era, which I loosely define as th...
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    New Job.  Same Commute.
    • Sep 5, 2019
    • 4 min

    New Job. Same Commute.

    I recently started a new job. It is only a few hundred yards away from my old place of work but metaphorically it really is a million mi...
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    Holiday Time.  Bike Time.
    • Aug 30, 2019
    • 5 min

    Holiday Time. Bike Time.

    I have recently returned from our family summer holiday in Croatia where I was reunited with my long-suffering bike. It has not been a g...
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    Hamax Siesta - Long Term Review
    • Jul 1, 2019
    • 3 min

    Hamax Siesta - Long Term Review

    When I had my first child, the purchase I was most looking forward to was a bike seat so that we could enjoy getting out and exploring to...
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