My great friend and fellow cycling fanatic, Stephen Murphy, recently returned from a family holiday in Croatia. His first taste of Croatia!

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...

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

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...

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 ...

These are the strangest of times. A country in lock-down is no longer the preserve of post-apocalyptic films.

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 ...

How to pack your bike to enjoy it abroad.

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. ...

Vojnic is a sleepy little place in Croatia where not much happens. Although all is quiet today this small farming village has seen more ...

It is that time of the year when thoughts turn to the New Year and with it resolutions both realistic and unrealistic.

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In that great tradition of Throwback Thursday (#TBT) I thought I would dedicate a blog to a time when I cycled down the “World’s Most Dan...