Yesterday was 12 months since the inaugral Gravelton, which, in the space of the past year has grown into a 9 month-long calendar. A bit mad really. In my true unprepared style, I realised on Friday I had no nutrition and my bike hadn't been touched for weeks, only having a new lower headset bearing … Continue reading The Gravelton 2024
About 12 years ago I started to sell a brand of accessories in my shop by Serfas. Lights, tyres, saddles, grips, bar tape etc, I had a small slatwall full of it. It's American-based and was actually decent kit, just nobody new the name. https://www.serfas.com/ I would always try what I sold, where possible, and … Continue reading Tracking down a Saddle
I think it was a first for me buying a new road bike while on holiday. The trails have just been too sloppy to enjoy them so I'd begun thinking about a road bike rather than slapping road wheels on my gravel bike. As the weather had been so wet for months in the UK … Continue reading New Bike Day
It's The Gravelton in a couple of weeks so I'd decided to test myself this weekend and see where I was at. I gave myself a choice. Ride 100 miles or complete 2000m of elevation. ..and as I rode on Star Wars day, I've tried to work in 7 quotes from Star Wars films. Some … Continue reading May the 4th
I've just spunked over £60 to enter an event. I'm happy about the ride, more on that in a bit, but I feel a bit dismayed events have now got so expensive and are becoming the domain of the affluent. Going away with my bike has become a bit of an annual thing for me … Continue reading Times Have Changed
We got back from Fuerteventura around 8pm on Thursday night and it was back to work the next morning. Yuck! Stepping off the plane to 9 degs after leaving 22 degs was a bit of a shock. Post-holiday blues always set in once you are back. Sat in bed drinking a coffee yesterday morning thinking … Continue reading Back to The Grind
Yesterday I decided to actually go and do a loop on the bike. The fresh tarmac road from Parques Hollandes, I found the other day, intrigued me so I decided to ride south through the dunes again, pick up the new road and climb up to Villaverde and gravel it all the way back via, … Continue reading Gravel, Goats and Chipmunks
After an early start and 9.30am flight, we were in our Corralejo apartment by 2pm yesterday. Helped, in part, by our bags been 3rd and 4th off the carousel and the private transfer caning it down the motorway at 90mph lol. Checked in and unpacked, we hit a local bar for our first beer and … Continue reading Lines
After many years of bouncing around cycling clubs, racing, riding and help run them, that all came began to fade away after I closed my shop. The store rides that were established carried on in some capacity for a few years but I decided to officially end them in 2019. Since then I've never been … Continue reading Not What I Expected
Lets have a bit of nostalgia. I've been cycling for over 35 years and in that time I've competed in a few (questionable) club cycling kits but back in the day I did go through phases of wearing garish trade kits. Lets have a look at some I've worn over the years. Kelloggs Tour of … Continue reading A bit of Retro
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