• Cycling

A visit to the old school

• August 8, 2020

I’d been in this country an hour and a half and had been offered coffee three times by three different people. No wonder Italy was so energetic. With caffeine hitting the bloodstream, my guides Paolo […]

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• Cycling

3 degrees of separation…

• July 31, 2020

I’ve long felt that perhaps one of human kind’s best inventions is photography. To be able to record life and replay it at will forever more is inherently special. Magical even. It was a generation […]

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• Cycling

The call of four cols

• July 28, 2020

The plan, simple. Point car south, drive 15hrs until big hills get huge. Decamp, aclimatise, clip in, drop out. Temperatures rise gradually as a blue horizon draws closer. Hit the bottom of France then turn […]

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• Cycling

Skips and biscuits – Royce Engineering

• May 23, 2020

“Royce Engineering, good morning…” “Hi, It’s Gus here, I emailed you about coming down to take some pictures in my photographic tour of the bike industry, I’m just checking it’s still ok to pop over […]

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• Travel

Fifteen hours on a coach

• May 19, 2020

Fifteen hours on a coach driven fast by a Dutch husband and wife long distance team avoiding German police speed traps was my first and to date only experience of former eastern Europe. When the […]

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• Photography

A magical fragment of time

• May 8, 2020

More than ever now a camera is a tool to me, just a box with a hole in the front and the mind that looks through it is what really matters. But photography is still my […]

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• Cycling

Among the trees and before the autobahn

• May 1, 2020

I can’t quite believe what I am watching. It appears to be a TV consumer show rating sex toys. A couple, surprisingly comfortable on television in their own home bathroom are presenting, testing and rating […]

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• Cycling

Photographs of cyclists and X-rays of me.

• April 26, 2020

While there are much more important things happening in the world as I write this, I do so by way of a few moments of respite from current affairs. A snapshot of a former normality […]

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