Cycle Rates in UK Summary Cycling on the road in the UK has increased 12% up the last 10 years (using 3 year rolling average). The biggest increase has been on surfaces other than the road. The % Cycling ‘mainly on the road’ has fallen from 46% (2002) to 40% 2009 London has seen the […]

Some Guinness world records about cycling. Most Vertical Distance Climbed in 24 Hours The record for the most vertical metres cycled in 24 hours is 20,049.9 m (65,780 ft 4 in) and was achieved by Horst and Gernot Turnowsky (both Austrian) at the Rinnegger highway, from Weinitzen to St. Radegund, Graz-Umgebund, Austria, from 30 June […]

It’s tempting to train on the aspect of cycling that you like. For me, I like most training up 5 minute + hills which are around 5-10% gradient. Given my build and constitution, that is the type of cycling which is my strongest. At that kind of gradient, my power to weight ratio is at […]

I was going to write an article on the UCI and their attitude to doping in the past 20 years, but after two minutes of research – I thought, this is too much. I can’t take any more. It is too depressing; it’s worse than politics. Right now, I’m glad I’m an amateur, racing for […]