Category: Cycling
Something to do with bikes. Could be road cycling, bike mechanics, bike commuting…
Around the Downs
July 2021 Feeling the need to get some branches in my hair, I devised a mash up route of the Downs Overnighter and the King Alfred’s Way, to spend a long weekend bikepacking up and around the No... Read More
How to build a bike (in 25 misleadingly easy steps)
1. Plan an adventure. 2. Realise this is the perfect opportunity to convince yourself that you need a new bike that will suit the demands of the adventure better than your current bike(s). 3. Spend an... Read More
Moonrakers & Sunseekers
November 2019 Over 100 people thought that riding 300km in November, starting at 10pm, sounded like a fun way to spend a night (and a day). The brainchild of Will Pomeroy from Audax Club Bristol, the ... Read More
Cycling across France on La Vélodyssée
August/September 2019 This is my trip report on cycling two weeks north-south along the west coast of France on La Vélodyssée, approximately 1,200km. It’s rather long (hey, so is France!) so g... Read More
Le plan for La Vélodyssée
In 2018 I went on a long walk across New Zealand. In 2019 I decided I wanted to do a long cycle. I’ve done a few audaxes and rode across Wales, which confirmed that I really like riding my bike ... Read More
Cycling across Wales on the Lon Las Cymru
April 2019 Jo and I had talked about going on a little cycle trip for a while, and settled on cycling across Wales on the Lon Las Cymru over the long Easter weekend. Initially we thought of camping, b... Read More
The 3 Down audax
April 2019 As part of preparation for London Wales London (LWL) in May (400km audax) I had signed up to the Dean in March, a 300km audax. However, I bailed after just 100km of the Dean, when I was una... Read More
The Poor Student 200km audax
August 2016 In some end of 2016 festivities with the wonderful Broken Spoke Team Beryl folk, someone mentioned their intention to go on a ride in early January. This ride would be 200km long, in a tri... Read More
How to cycle to a wedding
July 2017 A friend was getting married in Marlborough and I’d started looking at how to get there (no car). Public transport would involve a laborious amount of buses and trains, and I thought I... Read More
Cyclocross: mud, trees and beer
November 2016 “I’m not going to be able to make the race anymore, do you want to take my place and borrow my bike?” Gee, well, there went my plans for staying warm and dry on an autu... Read More
How I got into road cycling
July 2016 *This post also appears on Broken Spoke’s blog* My first memory of riding a bike is around and around a bush in a campsite somewhere in France. Our family holidays were pretty active, ... Read More
Bristol Grand Prix Crit
June 2016 Getting back from a Copenhagen work trip late the night before probably wasn’t the best preparation for my 3rd race of June. This was the Bristol Grand Prix – a city centre crit ... Read More
Silverstone TTT
June 2016 Second of my series of 4 races in June was the Silverstone 9-up Team Time Trial. It was on the actual Silverstone race track, how cool is that? It was 3 laps of the full F1 Grand Prix circui... Read More