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Mechanically minded?

The one thing that all cyclists have to suffer – apart from a visit from the aforementioned P-fairy – is some mechanical of some kind. No...

That thur London

London, that thur London. For my mum it was always the capital, to me and my siblings it was up town. For years, whenever we said to mum...

London calling

The one thing that has always astounded people is that I used to commute to London. The idea of cycling for 15 miles seems to befuddle...

A consistent approach

One of the principles of training is that you set out with goals and targets, nth degree planning and a state of the art carbon machine....

No dope

I’m lucky with where I live. Richmond Park on the doorstep, the Surrey hills down the road and the North Downs and South Downs not too...

Bonkers

The one thing that is warned about but never really listened to is bonking - less sniggering at the back there. Even for a bear on a...

Puncturing the mood

I’m going to talk about something that affects all cyclists, young and old at least once in their lives. Some may cope, others may fall...

Take the train

Training. Bloody training, I hated training when I played Rugby and I hate training when cycling even though it’s an evil necessity to...

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