Two years ago a Scottish friend encouraged me to ride a mountain bike marathon event in the Scottish Borders, roughly an 85km route with some serious amounts of height gain. It was rather wet and muddy, I snapped a chain and went the wrong way twice (don’t ask) so I had a personal score to [...]
The 2010 Radar Ride. It was truly an ‘epic’. We arrived at Wanlockhead at about 8.15 am. Driving up the M74 from Brampton it went from grey to dark grey to light black with the camper van being buffeted by the wind. There were three of us in Andy’s camper van and conversation was subdued. [...]
My bike racing this year has been approached from a slightly different angle to previous years, for a start I’m a lot more relaxed and have more fun and as I love all areas of cycling I try to ride a wide variety of events, from flat crit races, to hilly road races, to short [...]
Not long after the dust had settled from round 2 of the Nutcracker race and it was all go again from Round 3 at Dalby forest on the weekend of my 29th birthday. The Dalby XC course is fantastic and has been designed to test the worlds best, the whole course it technically demanding with [...]
It’s been a couple of weeks since my win at Richmond, the weather has been quite kind so I’ve been doing a fair bit of bike riding. With the Arthur Caygill road race cancelled the bank holiday weekend was an excellent invite to do lots of peddling. To compensate for the cancelled hilly road race [...]
