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- Aug 4, 2020
- 9 min
The Pull of the Bike
hese 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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- 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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- 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...
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- 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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- 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...
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Jan 14, 2020
- 4 min
Shipping your bike abroad
How to pack your bike to enjoy it abroad.
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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