Race: Ballantyne Trophy Road Race, Northumberland. Conditions: Overnight rain means wet and gravely roads. Come on guys, at least be quiet when the commissaire is talking even if your not going to listen. Ok, let’s roll out. Shoot, I’m a bit to close to the back of the bunch, I need to move up. It [...]
Well, it’s been a long time coming but I have finally caught up (not in a peddling sense you understand) with my Velo29 team-mates. On the May Bank Holiday Richard kindly invited us all to his house for a BBQ and drinks. As we all live in different parts of the area, work different job [...]
In May 2010 the world’s best mountain bike cross country racers took the trip to a Yorkshire Forest to race on what was voted the ‘best’ course of the 2010 season. In April of this year round two of the British Mountain Bike Race Series travelled from somewhere down south to set up a race [...]
The setting is Whinlatter Forest in the Lake District in late March, which could have provided a very tough challenge with the weather usually being a bit fickle at this time of year. I decided to travel over on the Friday to see a rock band in the area, which provided a great night and [...]
Sometimes in my cycling career I have no doubts I am one of the luckiest people alive and the weekend just gone was one of those times. Paid to race in one of the most beautiful places in the world with some of the friendliest people I’ve ever met. It doesn’t get better (apart from [...]
