gravel riding

• Cycling

Mountain biking before the comfort years…

• December 23, 2020

I was always of a singletracked mind. Riding mountain bikes in England usually turned the bars toward hidden technical trails like a water diviner finding a stream. That was what the bikes I owned sought […]

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• Cycling

A further challenge

• September 9, 2019

The last year has been the challenge of this lifetime. I was involved in a cycling accident in July 2018 on a local col ten kilometres from home at the end of an all day […]

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• Cycling

Wet

• June 30, 2019

Wet through before it’s begun. Gore-Tex, Gabba, grimace wet. A wall of grey turning black above and black below. Three or four white lines to the false horizon. Back in England. 23mm tyres and carbon […]

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• Cycling

Dust Remembered

• June 22, 2019

Floors lay piled with boxes crammed with a life not lived for months. Rooms are now still and awkward like un-winnable life sized games of Tetris placed on pause. Having no stuff was quite nice […]

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