Spring kit 2014
cl;imb galibier – Large
Rocky
Keen and excited for the shadow of the season ahead? Nervous about your impending form? Worry not; I have the solution, the Philadelphia Solution. Simply follow these three steps and I will guarantee you a better season than last. Than ever imagined. No magic or potions, just a trio of easy steps and progress for
I am electric. This is why I ride.
My front tyre scribes the perfect arc around the final bend on the descent. Sweeping the inside edge of the white line paints my racing line. My fore fingers sit alert teasing the levers but applying no pressure. To scrub off velocity on this stunning road would be a sin. Out of the corner
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Share the Love
This past week you will have noticed a strange creature lumbering along the side of the road at the speed of a push mower. The bit of the road where you normally are. A life form, more gifted in girth, and facial rouge than the conventional occupant of the rolling kerb. Glorious natural hair is
Keep your anger!
He sounded like an ambulance of anger, the way he yelled out the window at us. All red faced and scary and wrong. “GET off the phuckinn rRr….” was all I got before his rage was lost in diesel smoke and speed. On any 100km spin I will meet a ‘him’ at least once. Some
Cycling Lexicon
Just for fun, Celebrating the difference. There is only one rule: Ride and smile. Extensionlead: Drafting a person on an electric bike into a headwind. Bumroll: Finding an imperfection in handlebar tape application, after completion of fitting. “Perhaps it is for the best” : Power meter not reading on your head unit. Chequered Flag holder:
Comm 1
Mostly never seen, rarely mentioned but with a view of the professional racing circuit that money could not buy. No event could proceed without the race commissaire. In a dungeon somewhere in Switzerland, covered in cobwebs and folklore, exists the biblical 400-page UCI rulebook. Cycle sport’s blue jacket wearing judges are the only humans who