Neat Bike Racks  and a view through a wheel

You sometimes here the odd person say, bikes should be fitted with registration plates so we can identify bad cyclists. Well, I don’t think its a good idea. You might as well make Friday night revellers have a registration plate around their neck, so they can be easily identified on CCTV when they drunkenly kick […]

Every bike has a story behind it. I took a photo of this slightly unusual bike at the HQ of the recent 50 mile Time Trial. It is the bike of Mick Fountain who is a stalwart of the local time trialling scene. With his wife, Marion, he regularly acts as time keeper, and when […]

I wasn’t racing at the weekend. I was standing on the middle of a roundabout near Kingston Bagpuize with a fluorescent yellow jacket. It was a 10 mile time trial organised by Oxonian CC. My club is too small to organise a race, so I try and marshal once a year for my second claim […]

Safety in Numbers It’s good to hear about this report which shows an increase in the number of kilometers cycled, combined with a decrease in the number of fatalities. CTC link It is always possible to draw many conclusions from statistics, but, this seems good news. Intuitively as a cyclist you feel there is ‘safety […]

I often ride on my own, but, I also ride with a variety of people. I’ve noticed that when I ride with some people there is always some incident with cars and they start shouting or get shouted at. It is almost as if, they can’t help but get into an argument or create a […]

Cheaper bike frames will be made from solid steel. As pure steel is quite brittle, it tends to be quite thick making the bike heavier and unresponsive. Steel Alloy Frames. If Steel is mixed with another element it becomes much stronger and so can be thinner and lighter. For example, Chrome Molybedenum is made from […]

Recent years of following the Tour de France have left me pretty disgusted with many things. But, this year I’m getting alot of inspiration from watching the Tour. Yesterday, I was admiring David Miller go on a lone and ultimately futile breakaway. It was agonising to watch the final 5km as his minute lead rapidly […]

The Basic Levels of Cycling Fitness: Aerobic capacity. The ability to ride for long periods of time at low levels of intensity. This is increased by cycling at a relatively low intensity, 60% of Heart rate. It is often known as the ‘base level of fitness’. A base level of fitness is needed before moving […]

Here a man is pedalling a free bike hire bike by Velib (well, free for first 30 mins). They were quite common in Paris and seem to indicate a fairly successful bike hire scheme. Cycling through Bastille, there is a very good ice cream shop near here. A woman weaving her way through stationary traffic. […]