Happy Birthday Wiggo TdF Winner – 2012 Quadruple Olympic Gold Medallist Six time track World Champion Wiggins’ transition from Olympic track star to TdF winner, and his perceived gentlemanly attitude to racing, won him many French fans in 2012. Back in the UK he was loved for his unconventional podium speeches, his Mod style and for finally winning the Tour for Britain at the 99th edition. A supreme ... Read More
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Methods in the Madness – Spring Classics Round-Up
“This be madness, yet there is method in it” – Hamlet And we are done. Bergs have been beaten, cobbles have been conquered, pavé passed and Murs mauled. The Spring Classics season is over and there is a small chance to draw breath and reflect on the tumultuousness before the Grand Tour season comes to rule our lives once more. It has been an undeniably classic ... Read More
Free Safe Cycling posters
thejerseypocket:These are cleverly designed, beautiful posters – and they are free to download and print.. Originally posted on Unofficial Unsanctioned Women's UCI Cycling Blog: Thomas Yang runs 100 Copies, selling limited-edition bike-themed prints, and today he’s giving his designs away. If you want the digital files of any of these Safe Cycling posters, email him at yangthomas [at] mac.com and you can tweet ... Read More
The Velo House – Birth of a Cycle Club – Part 3
Read Part I of the VeloHouse story here and Part II here. April 13th 2014. After two years of planning and four months of building, blue skies and Spring sunshine welcomed the opening of The VeloHouse cycle cafe & shop in Tunbridge Wells last weekend. I was more than happy to coincide a visit to the completed project ... Read More
Ronde Van Vlaanderen Cyclo 2014 – Ride Report
About three-quarters of the way up the climb the pain in my lower back reached an entirely new level of awfulness. Each bump in the rough cobblestone farm track rattled up and down the body and treated the kidneys to another set of organ-crunching tremors. It was as though someone was hammering out a staccato rhythm on each side of the base of my spine ... Read More
The Velo House – Birth of a Cycle Club – Part 2
Read Part I of the VeloHouse story here. March 2014. It’s almost nine o’clock in the evening when I get through to Olly Stevens for a catch-up about how things have been progressing at the VeloHouse project in Tunbridge Wells. The face on our video call looks tired but his day is still far from done. With only a few weeks to go until ... Read More
The Ups and Downs of the Round and Round – Track Life
For most there was a carnival-like atmosphere accompanying the return of competitive cycling to the Olympic Velodrome last weekend. The sun shone unseasonably brightly on the crowds who made their way to the fifth and final round of the 2013-2014 Revolution Series and they were also treated to some magnificent racing in the superb building affectionately known as The Pringle. But not everyone left the ... Read More
In Memoriam – Dylan Ellis Judd Smith
Dylan Ellis Judd Smith – 17.02.05 – 16.03.05 Our first child Dylan, died of a Group B Strep infection at 27 days old. He rides with me everyday. www.gbss.org.uk | www.gosh.org ... Read More
Bonne Anniversaire – Louison Bobet
Happy Birthday Zonzon World Champion – 1954 Tour de France Winner - 1953, ’54, ’55 Paris-Roubaix – 1956 Milan-San Remo – 1951 Ronde van Vlaanderen- 1955 Giro de Lombardia – 1951 France’s first post-war cycling hero, the elder and more successful of the two Bobet brothers was also the first rider to win the Tour de France three times in succession. His memory will be eternally wedded to the ‘Casse Desert’ section of the Col d’ ... Read More
The Velo House – Birth of a Cycle Club – Part 1
January 2014. Olly Stevens is standing in a freezing building site, watching his dream slowly come to life. Off to one side, beyond the usual jumble of site lights, half-filled buckets and strip-out detritus, Juan Antonio Flecha’s 2010 Paris-Roubaix Pinarello frameset hangs rather forlornly on an unfinished wall. Aside from that, and a small poster in the window of what was once Tunbridge Wells’ branch of ... Read More