Buying a Winter Bike – Is this the path to all year round riding?

I’ve never bothered with a specific bike for winter training. I’ve either just ridden my usual road bike all year round and accepted the increased need to perform distasteful tasks like cleaning and lubing the chain more frequently, or just ridden off road for most of the winter. After all there is to my mind …

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The Pearl Beyond Price. A Mountain biking Parable For Our Times.

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 …

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I’m not the rider I could be, and I’m cool with that.

There I've said it. It's out in the open. The secret is out, and the angst in my cyclists soul is laid bare, but that's fine. You see they say with age comes wisdom and experience. Well I'm not sure about wisdom and all experience seems to tell me is that getting up in the …

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Training With Zwift – Indoor pain for hopefully outdoor gains…….

So I've been using Zwift for a few weeks now and according to my online stats on the Zwift app I've ridden 262 miles, climbed 24,300 feet and burned 27 slices of pizza. To be honest I'm not entirely sure of the relevance or meaning of that last stat, but burning virtual pizza slices seems …

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