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A Good Read #3
A new addition to my library “End To End” by Paul Jones. The Land End to John O’Groats Cycling Record – A Tale of Obsession and Happiness. From the cover: The End to End is the longest place-to-place cycling record in Britain. It is a daunting 842 miles and for the...
Ride London – 2022
An all new Ride London is back…! The world’s greatest festival of cycling returns on Sunday 29 May 2022, with a new format, exciting new routes and a new partnership with Essex County Council. The first 10,000 UK general entry places for 2022 RideLondon-Essex 100 have...
End of the Season – 2021
As we come to the end of another cycling year, here in the Northern Hemisphere, the only thing you can say is that it has been an odd sort of a year. Better than 2020, but nowhere near a full calendar of events. Many of the iconic Events and Races were cancelled,...
Fitwins October Crowdfunder Appeal
For some months now, I have been using the Fitwins Fitness App to log my Virtual Miles. The creators would like to improve the App, by adding new features, including Street View to the Google Maps. To fund this, they are looking at crowdfunding – using the Crowdfunder...
The Grand Tour of Great Britain
The Grand Tour of Great Britain started on 1st May 2021 and continued for two months, through May and June. It is a 3,000 km, 7 Stage Virtual Road Cycling Tour through the United Kingdom including a 500km stage through Northern Ireland. On completion you receive a...
The Manx Missile is Back
Exciting Breaking News… Mark Cavendish (36) will race the 2021 edition of the Tour de France. His team, Deceuninck-Quick-Step announced today, that Cavendish will be the team’s nominated Sprinter for the 108th Edition of the TdeF. Sam Bennett was the Team’s chosen...
Chris Froome – Tour de France 2021
In a terrible summer of lock-downs and very little Bike Racing, it has been announced that that Chris Froome (36) will ride for the Israel Start Up Team in the 2021 edition of the Tour de France. (26th June – 18th July). He will ride as Road Captain, supporting their...
Hot Weather Cycling
For the last few weeks, here in the UK it has been very sunny. We have been having our annual “summer”. The time of year when we have a few weeks of very hot weather and the headline in the newspapers is ‘What a Scorcher…!’ It lasts about 3 weeks and then we are back...
Tokyo Olympics 2020
It has been confirmed that the Tokyo Summer Olympics will be held between 24th July to the 9th August 2021. Originally scheduled to take place from 24th July to 9th August 2020, the event was postponed in March 2020 as a result of the Covid-19 Pandemic. This is the...
Fitwins Virtual Challenge
Fitwins Virtual Challenges: FITWINS means winning physically, winning mentally, taking on a challenge and smashing your goals. Throughout 2020, as well as my usual riding on Zwift, I was also taking on a number of Virtual Challenges. These included, Lands End to John...
Zwift – Level 50
Zwift is a popular multiplayer online, cycling and running, physical training programme that enables users to interact, train and compete in a number of virtual worlds. It was founded in 2014 and the first ‘beta’ version was available in Sept 2014. A fully-fledged...
Santos Tour Down Under 2021
The Santos Tour Down Under is a professional cycling race held in and around Adelaide, South Australia, and is usually the first event of the UCI World Tour and features all 19 World Tour Teams. It also incorporates a UCI Women’s Pro Series event and a one day circuit...
Covid-19 Pandemic
My first report on what has become known as the “Covid-19 Pandemic” was in February 2020 with my article – “A funny start to the year”. The COVID-19 pandemic in the UK is part of the worldwide pandemic of the coronavirus disease 2019, which causes severe acute...
CADEsport 2020
I came across CADEsport in mid-2020, it looked a good possible alternative to Zwift. Originally the Beta programme was released under the brand CVRcade, which was changed to CADEsport shortly afterwards. Although the reviews weren’t brilliant, in fact some were pretty...
5 Rules #2
Moving on from my original article in September 2017, I thought we would revisit “The Rules – The Way of the Cycling Disciple.” As a reminder, there are 95 Rules contained in the book, that all cycling enthusiasts are encouraged to follow. However, many of the Rules...
Tour de France 2020
The Tour de France was scheduled to run from the 27th June – 19th July 2021. It was the 107th edition of the race. However, due to the ongoing Covid-19 Pandemic, it was postponed to the 29th August 2021and it finished in Paris on the 20th September. It was a strange...
Laurent Fignon
August 2020 represents 60 years since the birth of Laurent Patrick Fignon and a short 10 years since his death. Fignon (Le Professeur – The Professor), 12 August 1960 – 31 August 2010; was a French Professional Road Cycle Racer, who won the Tour de France in 1984 and...
Wiggo’s Money Troubles
Money woes continue for Olympian and Tour de France winner Sir Bradly Wiggins. At the end of 2019 he wound up two of his companies with debts of more than £1m after the failure of his Team Wiggins cycling team. A report has revealed that Wiggins Rights Ltd, the...
Chris Froome to leave Team Ineos
It has been announced that one of Britain’s most successful rod cyclists, Chris Froome (35) is leaving Team Ineos at the end of the 2020 season, after they have decided not to renew his contract. With 10 years and 7 Grand Tour wins (4 x Tour de France; 2016,15,16 and...
Networking Beyond the Basics
Once you have mastered the basics of Networking, what else can you do? Start to move further out of your comfort zone. Try writing an article for a relevant magazine or the relevant section in your local paper. You are then a published author and you can refer to it...
Kickstarter Unsuccessful Projects
3 Unsuccessful Kickstarter Projects: Only approx 35% of projects are successfully funded, and go on to full delivery. Here are three projects that I backed, but they did not reach the amount required to go forward. Fortunately, if the amount pledged does not reach the...