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 the maximum amount of ...

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 wrong. In the UK we...

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 the name of defeatin...

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 fell out of a tree. ...

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. There is a clear co...

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

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 an actual job to ma...

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. One more day to stoc...

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 doubt inspired by my w...

Apropos of nothing I thought I would compose a list of my favourite professional cyclists in the modern era, which I loosely define as that coming after the ...

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 miles away. I have sw...

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 great summer of cycli...

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 together. I have many...

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 Dangerous Road”. It ha...