I have to admit a certain masochistic love of cycling up hills. Whilst others will go out of there way to avoid hilly routes, I will often cycle along way just to be able to cycle up long hills. When it comes to sprinting in a bunch, I would be nowhere, but, my physique tends […]

Yesterday, two separate readers left a comment mentioning this BBC link about using a bike helmet camera My observations: It is pretty tough to watch. It’s painful to see how angry the white van driver is, despite knocking off the cyclist. Though it ties in with my observations that the worse the driving is – […]

Just a few photos to inspire you to take the bike rather than other forms of transport. Cars in a traffic jam. Bike path by river Verona It’s quicker by bike Related Cycling England

A while back, I posted about a close encounter with a van driver not looking where he was going. Someone commented, it was my fault because I didn’t look him in the eye. If someone is driving without any attention as to where they are going, I’m not sure how trying to look him in […]

Saturday was a grand day. Sunny and relatively mild. Well 5 degrees feels mild after many weeks of sub zero temperatures. I cycled to Burford about 55 miles. I was intending to do more, but some discomfort in the knee forced me to turn back. I wouldn’t say it was pain, but gave a nagging […]

Lee Evans has a go at track cycling. You spend £5,000 on a bike and it doesn’t even have a stand.

I remember when the first mobile phones came around in the 1990s. I tended to turn my nose up and think who would want to get one of those? A few years later I, of course, had my first mobile phone. I never used mobiles much (save texts from students to say they had slept […]

We all want to be fit for when this kind of weather arrives. Planning for the New Year It is always good to have a target for cycling. Whether it is a 100 mile charity ride, improving your racing speed or just learning a new aspect of cycling, generally we work better when we have […]

I had a vague plan to cycle 1000 miles in December. Unfortunately the reality was more like 300 miles. It was the coldest December in the UK for 120 years, which was a pretty good excuse for putting up the feet and taking a break. But I’m hoping for a few weeks of non-icey roads […]

Junctions are dangerous An Interesting study from Australis which suggests in majority of cases motorists were at fault from collisions or near misses. It found in 83% of occasions of dangerous driving, drivers were unaware or least didn’t show any reaction for the dangers they had put cyclists in. In 88.9% of cases, the cyclist […]