Sep 25, 2021 | Crowdfunding, Cycling, Fitwins Virtual Challenge, Indoor Cycling
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...
May 10, 2021 | Cycling, Hot Weather
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...
Oct 24, 2020 | Cycling, Road Cycling, Road Racing, The Rules, Velominati
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...
Mar 5, 2020 | Cycling, Road Racing, Tour de France
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...
Oct 25, 2019 | Cycling, Mark Cavendish, Tour of Britain
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...
Jul 28, 2019 | Cycling, Road Bikes, Road Cycling, Road Racing, Tour de France
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...