Just had my original 2005 Condor Baracchi cross bike resprayed. Went wacky and chose gloss black with white logos, mental! Rebuilding it as my training bike and keeping the Terra-X models locked away for racing and special. What a difference 5 years makes. These days the Terra-X internal cables are way better, geometry is improved and the all alloy frame is far far lighter than bonding a carbon

CX returned earlier that usual this year thanks to Sean, a local race organiser (and lad that who used to be in the same Primary school class as me). He single handedly set up, ran, organised and promoted a six race series and offered two training days for newer riders. I rode the final two rounds, finishing 1st in both, of course. On Monday I took my disposable camera to the last race. I tuck

Note: I have a hot pink pair I also wear with a clear lens...

I got bitten SO bad by a horse fly. My inner thigh is in agony. But here are some images of a summer CX series that is kindly run by a volunteer, who happens to be a boy who was in my class at primary school, Cypress Juniors (its a small world).

I've started reading 'Racing Hard' by William Fotheringham, a collection of all the newspaper articles he wrote for the Guardian between 1994-2013. It is a reminder of all the forgotten names and epic rides that happened over the last twenty years. As I was reading it, I started googling some of the riders names and the races to look back. Then I noticed how much warmer, hotter, tanned all the ri

August 2013 I love making schedules and plans and lists. Someone in Rouleur said 'just as lists are the unimaginative person's paragraphs, weather descriptions are the lazy writer's crutch.' But I find them motivating. A list of things to do has ensured I wasn't in a portaloo when being called to the start grid in a National series race. I like to make calendars too, it probably is more of