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Pro-Cycling 2020
The 2020 Pro-Cycling Season, has well and truly started. With the Tour Down Under (21st – 26th Jan) won by Richie Porte (Trek-Segafredo), all those fans are looking forward to a great year of cycling. Out to the UAE in February, then the Classics from March… With the...
A Funny Start to the Year
It has been a very funny start to the New Year - 2020 There is something in the air, it’s not quite right! It didn’t have a great start – my wife in hospital for a pretty serious operation, then a month of assorted hospital visits, and when I was back talking with...
Marco Pantani – 50th Birthday
Today we celebrate a special 50th Birthday of one of the most charismatic riders of the Professional Peloton. Marco Pantani (13th Jan 1970 – 14th Feb 2004) was an Italian Road Racing Cyclist, who was regarded as the greatest climber in the history of professional...
Building Relationships for more Business
Once you start to network on a regular basis, people will get to know you and will learn to trust you, and then they will refer business to you. But it is up to you to build those relationships. If you have promised to do something - do it! Very few people make good...
Cold Weather Cycling
October has rolled around again, and here in the UK, we are having one of those ‘early winter’ freezing weeks. The wind in coming down from the Arctic, and to say that it is ‘cold’ is an understatement. I accept that we don’t have anything like the winters in Canada...
Tour of Britain 2019
I’m a great fan of the Tour of Britain, and have followed it from the early days of The Milk Race. The 2019 Ovo Energy Tour of Britain was an eight-stage men's professional road cycling race. It was the sixteenth running of the modern version of the Tour of Britain...
Fausto Coppi
Today, the 15th September 2019 would have been the 100th Birthday of one of the greatest Road Cyclists of the 20th Century. Angelo Fausto Coppi was the dominant road racing cyclist just after the Second World War. He was an all-round cyclist, excelling at all levels,...
Tour de France 2019
The 2019 Tour de France was the 106th edition of the world’s most famous cycling race. The 3,365.8 km (2,091 ml) long race consisted of 21 stages, starting in the Belgian capital of Brussels on 6 July, before racing through France and finishing with a mad sprint on...
A Good Read #2
Another book turned up for my July Birthday…”Magic Spanner – The world of cycling according to Carlton Kirby”. Carlton Kirby has been a cycling commentator for nearly 30 years. He works for Eurosport and has commentated on the Tour de France for as long as I can...
Hydration – Water – Nature’s Health Drink
Water is our body's vital fuel, a health drink from Mother Nature. It is calorie-free, inexpensive and available everywhere. Yet few people follow the old fashioned advice to drink eight glasses of water a day. Most people drink when they are thirsty, but the drink...
Interactive Trainer
Turbo Trainer – Elite Drivo II The most accurate interactive home trainer in the world – so reads the promotional material for the Elite Drivo 2 Turbo Trainer. Drivo II’s colour catches your eye right away - black, sporty and aggressive just like its core, with an...
Kickstarter Successful Projects #1
3 Successful Kickstarter Projects: I first became involved with Kickstarter early in 2016, when I saw a social media post regarding a new ‘smart’ bike, which was being launched via the Kickstarter platform. Over the last few of years, I have pledged to support a...
2019 Sock Length
The 2019 Pro Cycling Season has well and truly started with the running of the “Tour Down Under” from Adelaide in South Australia. It will continue throughout the year ending sometime at the end of October, usually with the “Presidential Tour of Turkey”. What is this...
A Good Read #1
I love a good book, especially thrillers / detective stories. I also enjoy a good cycling book. This year, I found two ‘Good Reads’ under the Christmas Tree (Dec 2018), both by the acclaimed author William Fotheringham. The first was "Merckx: Half Man, Half Bike" and...
Tour de Zwift 2019
Tour de Zwift The Tour De Zwift is an annual cycling event held on the Zwift gaming platform, it is also their biggest event in terms of numbers participating. It is an epic 9-stage event across all 5 Zwift worlds. Open to the entire community, the Tour is a...
New Year Resolutions
An Easy New Year’s Resolution It is that time of year again… Everybody is making New Year Resolutions…ones that you know will last the best part of January, if you are lucky. You know the ones… Lose some weight; Moderate any drinking and that annual favourite – Get...
Team Sky
Team Sky On the 12th December 2018, Sky’s parent company 21st Century Fox, announced that they would be ending their sponsorship of Team Sky at the end of the 2019-cycling season. Sky has sponsored the team since it was formed in 2010. It has been one of the most...
Paul Sherwen
On the 2nd December 2018, it was announced that the ‘Voice of Cycling’ Paul Sherwen had died of heart failure, aged 62, at his home in Kenya. Paul Sherwen was born on the 7th June 1956, just ‘down the road’ from me in Widnes, (Northwest England). He grew up in Kenya,...
Beyond the Deepening Shadow
BEYOND THE DEEPENING SHADOW: THE TOWER REMEMBERS; an epic light and sound display held at the Tower of London to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War. The event filled the moat with thousands of individual flames: a public act of remembrance for the...
Kickstarter #2
In Feb 2012 a dock made for the iPhone designed by Casey Hopkins and became the first Kickstarter project to exceed one million dollars in pledges. A few hours later, a new adventure game project started by computer game developers, Double Fine Productions, reached...
The Debate – Helmets
Should the wearing of helmets be compulsory for cyclists…? The debate rages on, many newspaper column inches are written, pundits give their reasoned arguments and ‘experts’ mostly say it would be a ‘good thing’. Everybody who is anybody has an opinion. Whether you...