In our privileged stables of bikes, it ranks towards the bottom of the heap as Bike #2 or lower, but…
It requires a combination of factors to intersect. You need to have already spent loads of time on a bicycle. Enough…
As a byproduct of brakes being strictly for ornamental purposes, cyclists are often forced to find alternative means of stopping…
This is an exciting time of year. The Giro is in the books, the Tour is firmly in everyone's sights,…
Why would any sane person choose to suffer? The answer to this question is a primal one and of particular…
I love the shape of it. Aroma of it. The way it feels to be around it. It will catch my…
It came to me in a moment of absolute clarity, the kind of clarity which only arrives to one in…
Everyone knows that things like "tactics" and "thinking" are for the weak. After all, if you're strong enough, loud enough,…
See that huge mountain over there? The one with the steep, twisty road going up it? The one that is often…
Have a look around to see who you find occupying your immediate vicinity. Presently, I am surrounded by a pleasant-seeming…
I feel it in my bones. I feel it in my breathing. I fixate on how much I feel it…
We gather here today to pay our respects to one of the most exciting developments the Cycling world has ever…
After a winter of long training rides that offered more in the way of numb extremities than it did in acute enjoyment, I…
The Rules are about cultivating a passion for riding our bikes to gain the maximum enjoyment possible. This requires humility,…
I thought I'd take this opportunity to move en danseuse on Rule 89 and to refer to Liege-Bastogne-Liege by its…
With Keepers Tour: Cobbled Classics 2012 stitched up and in the history books, the challenge of documenting the trip became…
When people think of the The Netherlands, they generally think of flat lands, windmills, and a topography where people claim…
We rode the Pavé of Roubaix in the dry, and any comforting feelings we might have been carrying about with…
You don't have to be in Flanders very long before you start to breathe in the history of the area.…
The Keepers and Rigid rolled into a region in France called Flandres which, without doing any further research into the…