Sportives
Velo Birmingham 2017 Review
I hadn't planned on riding the 2017 Velo Birmingham. I was registered as tickets went on sale but I baulked at the £85 entry...
Sportives
La Ronde Picarde 2017 Review
La Ronde Picarde was planned as the last big ride of 2017 and the last little trip away with the bikes. The plan was...
Sportives
Mad Summer Hare 2017 Sportive
The final warm-up before tackling La Ronde Picarde a week later, the Mad Summer Hare was to provide a good challenge. It’s the first...
Sportives
Wiggle Yorkshire Tour Sportive 2017 Review
I was supposed to be going on holiday cycling from Berlin to Copenhagen for a week but because of Ryanair refusing to take the...
Cycling Tips
Rapha Rising Challenge Roundel 2017
Rapha Rising is a challenge on the Strava website to climb a certain amount of metres across a set number of days. Riders from...
Time Trials
Saracen RC Open TT 2017
This was to be my first time trial in a little while, having busied myself with sportives and managing to overdo things and strain...
Racing
Civil Service Cycling Championship 2017
One of the perks of working in the Civil Service (for non-UK people, think employee of the state) is that they have a sports...
Sportives
Ride Staffs Sportive 2017 Review
The Ride Staffs sportive took place on 2nd July 2017. Starting from Chillington Hall, a large country house between Wolverhampton and Telford, riders were...
