Nice bikes for getting around town.

I always like to see a bit of Yorkshire in my adopted home town. This vintage Bob Jackson cycle from Leeds stands out from the crowd. Bob Jackson cycles have been hand building quality bikes for over 67 years. Based in Leeds they specialise in building Steel / Cromoly frames with the best Reynolds and […]

Trek Madone Project One. Custom colour – an incentive to keep it clean! I wanted a new road bike to replace my current one. My old bike was from Ribble; the frame was made from scandium (close to light aluminium) with a 5 year old mix of Dura Ace and Ultegra. It was light, and […]

Only £100 – well in 1938. Being the kind of cyclist who spends £50 on a tubular, and £500 on a wheel, it’s hard to get my head around the idea of buying a bike for £100. If you bought the parts separately, they would certainly add up to more than £100. There are bikes […]

I saw this Raleigh explorer bike, and thought it would make a good addition to the vintage bike collection. You might not be able to see from this photo, but underneath Raleigh, it says ‘the all steel bicycle.’ A great simple single speed. A like matching bell and saddle (though it doesn’t look very comfortable.) […]

My first bike was a bmx. It spent about seven years hidden away in a garage, rarely been used except for my Sunday paper round. I never really got any joy from a bmx. I never saw any attraction in learning to do tricks – either that or I fell off at my first attempt […]

This part of my series of  tips for beginners to Cycling. Reasonable Bikes Start from £150-200. For a very small investment, you can get a decent road worthy bike. It won’t be competitive in the Olympics, but, you don’t need any of those top end features.  Consider how much you spend on bus fares / […]

I hope when I’m an old man, (in roughly 65 years or so….) I hope that I won’t be a grumpy old man I’ll still be riding my bike. I will still be racing a bike. Many people who do time trials are ‘Vets’ – people over 40. In fact I know of many riders […]

The freedom of fat tyres! The last few days have been a very interesting experience riding my budget mountain bike. I’ve always riden road bikes with narrow tyres assuming speed is everything. It’s quite an eye-opener cycling on a mountain bike. The idea of being able to ride straight over potholes takes quite a bit […]