Before we go any further we must announce that this ride is sponsored by the stoats of the doldrums, or maybe that’s too local a reference… or maybe it’s not even a stoat but he was very cute and not camera shy at all! In view of all the sunshine Read More

After a long lay off the camping thing we headed off to Bala for elevenses on Saturday. After filling our bellies we headed South a couple of miles to the end of the lake, booted up and headed out. We got a little impromptu Welsh lesson from the local park Read More

Fat hub, fat rim & fat spokes. All for one man and his dog.

201k audax followed by a trip back out to Pat’s house. Early start Sunday morning. Weather didn’t look too promising as we threw the bikes in the back of the van and headed round the M60 to Cheadle. Splatters of rain on the windshield. Parked up, pulled on the overshoes, Read More

Well, that was bloody fab. Got there in plenty of time, registered and had a chat with some folks. All too soon we were corralled between some tape, given some instructions and the we were off. Whoop! Took me a couple of laps to get into my cross bike groove Read More

Some stuff from the Core bike show. I think I’ve got a customer for this one…Shiny aluminium fenders from Extra. All sizes around £45.Fixie hub prototype using HG cassette cogs. Easier to swap cogs and use bigger ones than are normally available to screw on.Neat looking bar/stem solutionA great looking Read More

Drifty out there, and pushy and slidey too. Hopefully a return to almost rideable trails soon.

So, we dragged ourselves out of bed at a ridiculous time for a Christmas day morning and were out the door for 9 o’clock, eek! By the end of the walk some 7 hours later I looked and felt a bit pooped, Shona as usual was fine and still ‘Tigger-bouncy’. Read More

just got back from a week in spain with everyone at FreerideSpain in the very sunny Alpujarras region. We took the roadbikes for a last fling in the sunshine for 2009. It wasn’t the plan but somehow managed to ride every day… up to the alledged second highest village in Read More