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2023-09-15 14:19:34 - By the time last October rolled round I found myself sitting on a personal record mileage, but I still hadn't ridden an actual sportive all year. It was time to put that...
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2023-08-25 15:26:19 - What and where is The Cooley Thriller - and has there ever been a better pre-ride briefing than that witnessed by riders on the 2023 edition? To take care of the "what"...
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2023-08-08 12:47:17 - Some events just capture the imagination and when news of The Stone Circle, Hotchillee's new gravel event, first crossed my desk I was instantly sold. A 200km gravel...
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2023-07-04 16:18:51 - Any Hozier fans in the house? The Wicklow-born singer introduces one of his songs with the observation, "Usually the only time you hear about the Wicklow Hills is before...
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2023-06-26 12:04:39 - "I'm riding today because the Dragon is known as being a really tough ride," said one rider I chatted to, who told me they had travelled to South Wales all the way from...
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2023-05-25 09:29:53 - That's right, we're in Spaghetti Western country where Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef strutted their stuff back in the sixties. Roll on to 2023 and four Brits, three...
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2023-05-10 15:18:24 - Bikepacking adventures are essentially about preparing for and meeting challenges. Raining at home? No problem, you'll miss the club ride this week. Raining whilst...
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2023-04-25 10:41:39 - Each year I like to set myself a new cycling challenge. This year I chose the GranGuanche Audax Gravel, an endurance cycling event traversing the Canary Islands off the...
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2023-03-21 00:49:06 - The second edition of GranGuanche Audax Gravel is underway, with 100 hardy bikepackers racing across the Canary Islands. I rode the launch edition in 2022, and watching...
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2022-11-09 16:40:25 - Once I'd picked up the cycling bug, I found myself looking longingly at cycling holidays with thoughts of "what if" and "how good can they be?" My wife Chris and I...
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2022-11-04 20:11:11 - Well, it's done. I'm finished. I don't mean physically, mentally, and spiritually kaput curled on the side of a road someplace in the foetal position. I rolled across...
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2022-10-05 11:27:05 - Now in its second year, the King's Cup Gravel Championships is the ultimate gravel cycling festival in the UK. Starting with some thrilling racing and ending the weekend...
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2022-09-29 14:28:51 - There's something about the words 'London to Brighton' that conjure up the stuff of myths in the minds of most cyclists down in the South East of England. For some it's...
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2022-07-25 13:50:28 - Flatout in the Fens was one of my first long distance sportives back in 2013 when it was organised by Kilo 2 Go. I feel sure that the event was about eighty miles,...
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2022-07-05 17:26:46 - David Lean's 1962 cinematic masterpiece, Lawrence of Arabia, brought international film stardom to Peter O'Toole. Even I'm too young to have seen it when it was...
