Happy New Year everyone, I hope Christmas treated you well and you enjoyed the festive week and got in a lot of riding. As you may be aware I kind of dropped the ball in terms of blogging taking a two week holiday but you can now expect more frequent blog posts, hopefully twice a [...]
Read more →Rider: Eddy Merckx As we draw to the end of the Christmas countdown we see that Eddy Merckx was the most victorious cyclist ever with 333 road victories during his career. There is little to say about Eddy Merckx as his palmares are complete barring one race which was Paris-Tours. Fellow Belgian Noel Vantyghem said famously, “Between [...]
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This is a guest post from Dad. Thanks Dad for writing it. Enjoy! Also thanks to Climbing Cyclist for the wonderful picture. Please check out his blog which is a plethora of knowledge about Victorian climbs at http://theclimbingcyclist.com/ It was bound to happen, eventually. There had been signs for a while, in fact – a [...]
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Today I rode my third Amy’s Ride. Amy’s Ride is a charity event used to raise money for road safety. Amy Gillet as you may well know was a professional womens cyclist. Her life was tragically cut short when she was killed training on German roads. The Amy Gillet Foundation seriously promotes road safety and they hold [...]
Read more →It all started with a single tweet. The end result was a beautiful morning, birds tweeting, the ocean swaying and the coffee machine brewing. Back to the beginning, it all started with a single tweet, this tweet as a matter of fact. After this monumental tweet I made a monumental decision. I decided too wake [...]
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