Category: Road Cycling

In the pantheon of triumphant returns there are giants that stand head and shoulders above all others. Michael Jordan walked away from basketball because he…

I want to make something absolutely clear: I’m no randonneur (I’m no superhero, fan of the right of politics, lover of mushrooms or tightrope walker…

Holidays always seem more exciting if they require an early start.  That’s how I’d always felt anyway.  It was now though, amongst the dark and…

I’m sitting on my sofa, which needs the covers washing after repeated assaults by my five-year-old son, or rather by his ketchup, porridge et al,…

These types of days are golden days.  They stand proud of other days, their heads held aloft, simultaneously covered by clouds in their elevated environment…

The weather was, for a British summer, unfamiliarly sunny and hot.  I was out on the bike as much as I could, making the most…

In the last instalment of Roads Like These I fawned over Beachy Head Road, this time it’s a descent.  Anyone who rides out of Brighton…

With summer merely moments away in the northern hemisphere, the latest selection of short sleeved jerseys are out all vying for our attention, and our…

As climbs go it’s not really that tough, there are certainly harder climbs closer at hand. Unlike many of these, save perhaps Ditchling Beacon, Box…

I’ve been home a few days now so the wistful glances back to the day I spent climbing, rolling, descending and climbing again around some…