My relationship with cycles with treaded knobbly tyres is a long and complex one. Once way back in the mists of my competitive youth off-road riding meant winter cyclo-cross races held at muddy playing fields or municipal recreation grounds during the road racing off-season. Like many aspiring junior roadies I subjected myself to these bleak windswept afternoons of cycling …
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Cycling Forums – I ride, ergo I must always be right, ergo everyone else must be wrong and is therefore a moron of the first magnitude!
Would a relative beginner notice the difference if he bought a carbon fibre framed bike? and would said hypothetical bike make him faster? A seemingly innocent question which was posed recently on one of the most popular UK-based cycling forums in the section specifically for beginners to our sport / hobby. A reasonable enough question for a …
Cycling Etiquette – What not to wear, what not to ride, and what not to say!
A once famous cycle racer who now must not be named once said 'its not just about the bike', and he was right. Although the bike is terribly important in terms of things such as frame material, manufacturer and chainset configuration, it's also about what the rider wears, how he or she wears it, and most …
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Knee Pain – Continue riding or rest up? (man-up or laze-up?)
As we enter a period of what our weather forecast professionals tell us could be an Indian Summer my body which as been relatively creak free all through yet another wet miserable British summer has decided to celebrate the warmer temperatures by throwing its metaphorical teddy out of the pram. My left knee is sending all the …
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Indoor Pain, is there any gain?
Turbo training - unpleasant sweaty bore festival or useful addition to the cyclist's training schedule? I have to admit to being in the latter camp until fairly recently. Like many riders a turbo trainer had been gathering dust at the back of my garage for many years. Bought one winter in a fit of optimism …
The Declining Cyclist 