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2019-05-14 13:06:54 - After the long weekend miles around the lanes, on café rides and on Zwift, there's a certain excitement ahead of your season's big rides, whatever the distance. Suffice...
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2019-04-30 20:20:54 - Since starting my cycling training business a few months ago, I've been trying to understand why coaching (i.e. expert advice) is widely adopted in some sports but not...
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2019-04-12 10:22:25 - The view on what is a suitable bike and tyres for the Tour of Flanders has changed quite a bit in recent years, especially in terms of what tyres to use. Whereas it...
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2019-04-12 08:07:25 - The Tour of Flanders offers four different routes for sportive riders on the day before the main race. 16,000 amateur riders get to test their cobble riding skills on...
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2018-10-31 11:58:53 - The 2019 edition of the Etape du Tour is a relatively short 135km but it packs a pretty decent punch with a total of 4,563 metres of climbing and a summit finish in the...
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2018-10-26 11:52:34 - All too soon it's that time of year again when the nights are drawing in and we may, I'm sure, start getting some inhospitable weather at weekends so one has to decide...
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2018-09-18 11:31:08 - My first "grown up" bike was a mountain bike. It was the Very Early 90s at the time and I had just won the school raffle. The prize was a shiny, red Diamondback with 14...
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2018-07-24 11:30:42 - The Dunwich Dynamo has grown in popularity over the years, with many riders now considering it to be one of the iconic rides of the year. Always held on the Saturday...
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2018-07-23 11:44:00 - La Marmotte is one of the toughest and most enjoyable sportives in Europe (and the world) but the logistics of getting to the Alps and back are enough to leave you...
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2018-07-13 11:25:07 - La Marmotte is one of the toughest sportives in Europe with a total distance of 174.5km and 5,750 metres of climbing in the day. The day starts in Bourg d'Oisans, with...
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2018-07-13 09:18:17 - The good news is that there is a broom wagon for La Marmotte. The bad news is that it won't get you back home until really quite late in the day and it will probably be...
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2018-06-06 14:27:07 - "So Oisin, I hear you're riding the Tour de France?" asks a cousin on a trip home. "I didn't realise the cycling was going so well!" This is awkward. "Ha ha! Well yes, I...
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2018-05-04 11:46:10 - After months of ignoring a niggly pain on the outside of my knee, the time had come to finally do something about it. Armed with the latest advice from Google and a 4mm...
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2018-04-30 07:26:52 - It seems like a long time ago. Back in April 2016 I somehow found a Kickstarter campaign for an Analog GPS Speedometer called an OMATA. The prototype looked fantastic...
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2017-10-23 20:09:27 - The 2018 Etape du Tour is a 169km ride from Annecy to Le Grand-Bornand, taking in four significant climbs and totalling an estimated 4,756 metres of ascending during the...
