Le maillot BOOM
For smashing stuff , beating the odds or doing wicked sprints. The first awardee this season is Ed Laverack for his determination at the 2013 Tour of Normandie. The welsh kid was one minute cycling through the black mountains and the next pulling on a Rapha Condor JLT jersey to turn pro within 18 months.
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Balint's Back!
Balint Humvas the CX shooter has released his third book. It follows the circus of riders and events in the 2012/2013 season. He also photographed myself and fellow Vicious team mate at the Koppenberg Cross, our first foray into continental cyclo cross racing. "It’s that time of the year. It’s been a great season. I covered over 30 races this year, I have travelled over 22 000 miles, I
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My way to 100k
If someone told me tomorrow that in the summer I would have to run a marathon, I wouldn't know where to begin. I usually run 10k every few weeks but I'd have no clue how to progress my runs around the local duck pond to running for up to 5 hours in a mass participation event. Luckily I don't have to do that. But I can share confusion or frustrations of new riders or competent&n
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Floating Books
Just installed floating book shelves. Search: Umbra Conceal Book Shelf
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My cycling memoirs
I signed up to the Rapha Women's 100 Facebook page and was reading through the comments and noticed a few had queried how exactly they should kick start their riding and build to the 100k target. Got me thinking of how I started cycling and how it lead to buying my first proper carbon road bike to now being able to leap onto a bike and choose the lanes I love to cycle throug
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Nearly 100
Rapha have pledged to get 100,000 women to ride 100km on the 7th July. The 7th is also the day of the Etape, an event that follows the route of one stage of the Tour de France, which also happens to be celebrating its 100th year. After only riding for up to an hour through the winter (Sept to Jan) as part of cyclo cross training, last weekend, I decided to bite the bullet and do a proper cycle.
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Tube @ 150
"London is quite a complex cognitive experience for people, some people can deal with that and others can't. London Underground was a way of easing people into modernity, I think it's made people more intelligent and LU posters are part of that." London Transport Museum has selected 150 LU posters from 3,000 pieces which are on display in a new exhibition.
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