Bike theft is a major problem in the UK. Unfortunately, the police often lack the resources to follow up these ‘minor’ thefts. If you lose your bike, you will only  have a small chance of getting it back. Stolen bikes are one of the biggest factors putting people of cycling. These are my top ten […]

The idea of a training periods is to vary the intensity and duration of your training in weekly and monthly intervals. For example, in a week one, you may have your highest mileage week of the month. Then a relatively light week, before increasing mileage for the next two months. Then at the start of […]

  Cycling has many great stories of sacrifice. – 1951 Tour de France, the Dutch cyclist Wim van Est was wearing the yellow jersey when he punctured and got dropped. Trying to frantically catch up on the stage leaders, he mistimed a bend and plunged off a ravine on the descent of the Col d’Aubisque. […]

I was interested in this article in The Times about the Muslim Ladies Cycling Club. It tells how, despite opposition from some of their own community leaders, Muslim women were enjoying the opportunity to learn how to cycle in London, giving a new sense of freedom. An early pioneer on the bicycle. It reminded me […]

I have known many cyclists who, after a long break from cyclists, get drawn back into the sport. Sometimes the gap is a few years, sometimes it can be even a few decades. But, there is a mysterious pull for many former cyclists to get back into cycling. See: Coming back to cycling after long […]

Often when cycling you end up repeating very similar training / cycling patterns. But, every year, you can learn something new. These are a few of the things that have helped over past 12 months. 1. Physio Therapy Works. In March / April I had six weeks off with knee injury. A sports physio seemed […]

Firstly, apologies to my cycling newsletter subscribers. I manage two websites (cycling and economicshelp.org). By mistake my cycling subscribers received a newsletter on economics  – so apologies if you were bemused to see a missive on debt default, balance sheet recessions and liquidity traps in your inbox  (and you thought cyclists were boring arguing about campagnolo […]