Easter weekend saw the 40th Edition of Scotland’s Premier Bike Tour and also Velo29’s first outing of the Premier Calendar team.
The Givan is a true Classic Cycle Race and the list of previous winners read’s as a who’s who of British Cycling. This year’s race promised to be another great year, with some changes to [...]
Being on the reserve list isn’t great news when you have 1 and a half hours of driving each way to get to a race. However, I spoke to the organiser the night before the event and he was quietly confident I would get to race. I arrived nice and early to give myself a [...]
After my 2 blog entries from early season road races I feel I owe the blog community an entry from my first mountain bike race of the season. Sherwood Pines was the venue which offers flat, fast and singletrack terrain, some tight and twisty, some open and smooth. Arriving at 9am I set out on [...]
After last weeks disasterous start to the season I made sure I completly over dressed for this one and had pockets full of knee warmers, arm warmers and gillet after the first 20km! To be fair it was only 5 degrees but with no rain and a very excited bunch there was no hanging around. [...]
They say a lot can change in a year; well a year ago the Phillip Russell Road Race commenced in arctic conditions Mr G and I went out the back after 1 lap and spent the rest of the race sat in Mike’s car drinking tea. The plan this year, pray for two easy laps [...]
