Bikes and Kit

They say you should try something new every day – I say why stop at one new thing? That was, roughly,…

Swiss brand Assos, like time-travelling sleuth Austin Powers, have a formidable reputation in the shorts department but until recently I’d never…

Unless, like the inhabitants of Royston Vasey, you only ride local sportives (and if that’s the case, you really should broaden your…

Asking for an ‘expresso’ is a great way to identify coffee snobs at a cake stop – the aghast facial expression…

Tradition and cycling go hand in mitt, but sometimes innovation yields not just performance gains but aesthetic advantage too.  Take these…

A few weeks ago a spur of the moment idea sent me into the attic, pulling aside cobwebs and arm-wrestling spiders…

The world of cycling is liberally sprinkled with French terminology. Many of these terms have no direct equivalent in English but…

There comes a point in the life of every sportive cyclist when you have to take your bike on a plane….