National Hill Climb Championship

A ride five years in the making and all over in 3 minutes and 12 seconds.

Weird prizes in cycling

Cycling is weird enough. Lycra. Funny hats. Chafing cream. It’s little wonder the sport hands out some very odd prizes. Piglet anyone? Giant sausage?

Are you mental? Riding off-road on a road bike

Off the map. The tarmac ends just like that. No warning. Mud, gravel and rocks ahead. Behind the ignominy of retreat, of surrender. Time to hit the mud.

Back to the hills

Back among the stick insects. Hill climb racing. Competitors so thin they almost disappear when viewed in profile. Sleek and minimal, it’s hard to believe a human is crammed inside. Widths and waists measured in millimetres in the pursuit of milliseconds.

One star cycling reviews ⭐☆☆☆☆

Scorn. Vitriol. Bleak humour. This is a celebration of the one star review, an ode to keyboard revenge. Real reviews from angry people. Ignore them at your peril!

How to ride the Dunwich Dynamo

How to stay awake and enjoy this overnight ride from London through the small hours to the Suffolk coast. My favourite ride.

Another world – Cycling in Asturias, Spain

Welcome to a world of steep climbs, impossible gorge roads and wild bears. Welcome to Asturias and the Cantabrian Mountains in northern Spain. Steep and scenic summits, short and sharp, the climbs breathtaking in more ways than one.

Gorges and gasps at the Mercan’tour granfondo

Gorges, snaking roads and more gorgeous gorges. Tall triangles corrugate the horizon, a wall of snow-capped mountains as far as the eye can see. Welcome to a stunning tour of the Mercantour national park, France. A ride to remember.

The virgin road

New. Never travelled. Perhaps your eyes traced a pixellated line on a screen the night before or perhaps you simply turned left instead of right. Ahead only virgin road unridden. The unknown.