Just imagine how fast Bradley Wiggins would have gone, if he’d been wearing one of these. I want one, it will go very well with my orange bike. At least some things have improved. The helmet in question is a POC Sports Tempor TT Helmet.

There was no racing at the Weekend and after a day off on Saturday, to go down to London for the Olympic road race, I cycled to Prince Risborough for a few of the hills around the Chiltern ridge. The weather was glorious for the first three hours – 20 degrees, sunny, and with only […]

The mens and womens Olympic road races will be both be using Box hill as part of the Olympic road circuit. The men will climb box hill (Ziz Zag road) nine times, the women two times. It is a good hill climb 2.5Km, averaging 5%. It only climbs 125 metres, but after nine ascents it’s […]

Yesterday, a good friend sparked up a conversation with the opening gambit: “I hear a Brit is doing well in that big cycle race thing? “ – “you mean the Tour de France.” “Er, Yes.” Marvellous, this British Cycling revolution thing. There was me thinking Britain was completely converted to cycling – all ready to […]

The first Highway code was published in 1931. It produced sound advice, some of which is still in use today. It also gave cyclists the advice to: ‘Do Not wobble about the road but ride as steadily as possible.’ These days, they say if you dress up as an old lady and wobble around the […]