Classics and  cycling sprint ace - Tom Boonen Gary Barlow off of Take That (blonde on the left)

... famous people Marcel Kittel (cyclist, Giant-Shimano)  Dolph Lundgren (Rocky, View to a Kill)

will not miss Cleaning my bike in the dark, every weekend for 17 weekends Getting my bike out of the shed the following weekend to find, there are still smeary marks and bits of dirt I missed. Digging twigs, stones and clumps of sand from the seal of the washing machine Training on a turbo in pitch black Car Tetris Jet washing my shoes, daily rotating the newspaper stuffing and pray they w

Imagine mud and then image riding on mud that feels like a slick frozen pond except with the added bonus of filth spraying on your legs, in your hair and all over the bike. That was the course at Derby. The frost and hard frozen bike lines were melted within a lap of the first race on the course and by the time the gun went for the Elite Women's race the lines I was going to use we

Last weekends race (Flickr)

Image: Balint Humvas for Cyclephotos.co.uk  Delia and I wanted to do another cross race in Belgium that was at least UCI - C2 or C1 in classification (higher than British National Trophy races). We have to pick them not on the course but on the distance from Calais and so it came to be that we registered and entered for a race in Essen, a small town on the boarder of Belgium and the Ne

Opted out of the National Trophy in Shrewsbury because originally no Vicious riders were planning on go and its a really far away course, a good course but a long way away.  Decided to ride London League a course that uses the grounds of Bethlam Royal Hospital. This would be my first race since Christmas break and the race in Essen.  There is a wooded section and if the course