Drive to Belgium to photograph a famous bicycle. Then drop it…
Another call from Specialized. Another solo road trip with co-ordinates and cameras. This time Belgium the next day for the building of Marcel Kittel’s new missile ready for the start of the Belgian classics a […]
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A friend of a friend that builds bikes
As tends to happen in the cycling world, a visit to a friend in Santa Barbara led to a friendship being made with a couple of coffee roasters, which in turn led on to a […]
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Restart as you mean to go on
Reading about a good friend’s arrival to interview Gordon Murray, in this month’s Car Magazine and thinking he’d be the nightmare visitor because of what he’d arrived in reminded me of my only visit to […]
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‘You’ve been Schlecked’…
There was a time when Nice and Monaco were more familiar and dare I say it, routine to me than my hometown London. That’s probably true of many a lensperson in cycling to a local […]
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I suppose I could have changed my name…
It was a few years ago now and the second time I’d been up the Atomium building in central Brussels and not found any chips at the top. I know the Belgians like a dollop […]
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Perspective
The little issues – missing a workout or rain stopping play – fretted about over the years are brought into perspective when you experience real catastrophe on two wheels on a foreign road. I learned […]
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Alberto Masi
Having been driven all over Europe as a child by my father and often found ourselves in northern Italy, among the various road trip memories the reaction my father made every time Milan was optioned […]
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And I had a Land Rover a thousand miles away…
Even though it was perhaps 75km away I’d only been to Spain a handful of times and always to point cameras at people. As I drove south in January in a small, under powered two […]
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