One of the perhaps lesser known Biblical parables is the story of the Merchant and the Pearl often known as The Parable of the pearl beyond price. To heavily paraphrase the verses basically a rich Merchant see’s a beautiful gigantic pearl and is so consumed with the need to possess it he sells everything else …
Continue reading The Pearl Beyond Price. A Mountain biking Parable For Our Times.
In preparation for the long-awaited rebuild of my poor long-suffering and chronically neglected Lapierre Zesty I've been watching a few 'how to' videos on the wonderful world of YouTube. And what I've concluded is that they can quickly lull you into a false sense of security about the task you're about to attempt. Take the …
Theres a well-known cycling adage that the formula for the perfect number of bikes for a cyclist to own is n+1 where 'n' equals the number of bikes a rider owns at any given time. The implication that a true cyclist is always thinking about the next bike they're going to buy as they toil …
Continue reading The Hopeless Quest for Cycling Nirvana via eBay and Mindless Optimism
Guilt is a very corrosive emotion. It nags and niggles and eats away at you from the inside. Insidious thoughts begin to pervade your waking hours and darken your dreams. Its even worse when the cause of your guilt is based and founded on your own wilful neglect of something that once was so special. Once she was …
The Declining Cyclist 