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Feels Like Heaven – Cycle Touring In Japan
Cycle touring is my idea of fun. The more I do it, the less I want to spend a holiday sitting on a beach. A few months ago I fulfilled a lifelong dream, taking my bicycle to Japan for several pedal...
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John O’Groats To Gibraltar Ride – Get Involved
I get quite a lot of emails about totally irrelevant stuff for this blog, but a message popped into by inbox this week and I was inspired to share it. Cyclists Mark Beaumont, Donald MacDonald and...
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The best and the worst sports drinks and energy bars
I wrote the title for this piece first, and then thought, ‘if I have to list all the worst, most disgusting sport nutrition products I’ve tried, I’ll be here all day.’ Some of them are so vile they...
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My Cycling Bucket Wishlish
I’ve always been kind of anti ‘bucket lists.’ For some reason I find the whole concept slightly depressing – to me bucket lists bring your mortality into sharp focus and I don’t like to spend a whole...
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Review: Peugeot 5008. Yes, a car!
Peugeot recently got in touch with me and asked whether I’d like to try out their new 5008 to see how it fits in with a cyclist’s lifestyle. It’s a bit of a random one, though it slots neatly into the...
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Goomah G733 Bike Check
I’ve been riding my Goomah Bike for a few months now, and in that time we’ve become firm friends so I thought I’d introduce her to you. The bikes are designed and developed by the Assos...
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It Ain’t Easy Taking It Easy
The past couple of weeks have been rotten! It all started two and a half weeks ago when I work up feeling terrible after drinking three bottles of beer the night before. I thought that I’d reached a...
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Camille McMillan & Hartley Cycles at Bespoked
I first met photographer Camille McMillan at Eroica Britannia last year, where he cut a dashing figure swaggering around in a silk scarf shooting images and taking rides on a motorbike under the Brooks...
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Assos shoots and cycling Swiss motorways
I just got back from a whirlwind visit to Switzerland, where I met up with the Assos family to shoot some new images. As I live in the beautiful south west of England, actually getting there took...
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Judging at Bespoked, Dartmoor, Ireland and Mountain Biking
The last week has been hectic. After getting back from Switzerland on Tuesday night, it was straight into a shoot for Met Helmets on Wednesday morning, with Dave joining me on modelling duties. The day...
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Bikmo Plus Bicycle Insurance Q & A
I’m super pleased to report that my lovely bicycles are now covered by cycling insurance specialists Bikmo Plus which is one less thing to worry about.. and I worry a hell of a lot. It always makes me...
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Women’s Cycling Needs Help
The lovely folks at Velovixen, the female focused cycling website, recently asked me to contribute to their newly relaunched blog. I thought I’d make my opening piece for them really count and write...
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A Female Frame Builder Speaks!
Unashamedly a feminist trying in my small way to redress the balance and to celebrate talented women, when I decided to write something frame building in the run up to Bespoked Handbuilt Bike Show, I...
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Steel City DH – My First DH MTB Race
As I wrote the title of this blog just now, I got to thinking that I should have done a ‘my first’ series whereby I go and try every kind of bike race and activity and write about my experiences. I...
View ArticleVideo: A 15 Minute Mountain Bike Shred
I’m a little obsessed riding mountain biking right now, so you may well see a lot of it on Bikes N Stuff, sandwiched between all the other bikes I still enjoy riding! Having never made a mountain bike...
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Never say never
I don’t mean to turn a blog about cycling into some self-help site filled with motivational crap – that kind of thing makes me cringe – but sometimes what begins as an idle thought floating about my...
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The Next Step For New Cycling Converts
One of the reasons I write this blog is to share things that I’ve discovered in my journey deeper and deeper into the mysterious world of cycling in the hope that these tips and insights might speed up...
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Wideopen Magazine’s Juliana Bike Check
Me and the guys at Wideopen Magazine became acquainted over the internet, as you often do these days, but I finally got to put a name to the editor Jamie’s face when I went down to their Local’s...
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How Fit Can You Get In A Month?
Those of you that follow this blog or any of my guest blogs will most likely know my attitude to training. In a nutshell, I don’t do it as I made the decision to focus on riding for pleasure alone...
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Get Fit In A Month Begins
And it begins! With no time to spare, James from High Rise Coaching and yours truly have got cracking on what’s to be a pretty intense month of cycling, the aim being to see how much difference you can...
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