You Can’t and You Don’t and You Won’t Stop
Failure and success are destinations not often visible to the traveller. This is why it is nice to focus instead on the beauty of the…
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Apr 13, 2016 • 70 comments
Failure and success are destinations not often visible to the traveller. This is why it is nice to focus instead on the beauty of the…
Dec 30, 2015 • 21 comments
I do love my Dutchmen. That much I admit. I also admit my love for the Americans with whom I share a passport. These affections…
Jun 25, 2015 • 127 comments
My bike weighs about 6 kilos. It is no waify little thing either, with it having a 61cm frame and and three stories of seatpost. It has beefy…
Mar 18, 2015 • 59 comments
The rain is coming down in sheets, blowing sideways out from the coast. I hear its intensity more than I feel it; the drops reverberate through my…
Aug 15, 2014 • 37 comments
I have met @chris on the original Keepers Tour. He seemed like a reasonable person at the time. Then again, @rob passes himself off as…
May 23, 2014 • 36 comments
“You ruined a heap of photos!” Not the words you want to hear when the photos in question are ones you didn’t shoot, but were…
Jan 6, 2014 • 150 comments
We’re not really supposed to have favorites, but everyone does. Just ask your parents. So while I’m not supposed to have a favorite, I do,…
Dec 1, 2013 • 47 comments
I realise that I may never live this down, and that my reputation within the Velominati community will be damaged irreparably, but I’m out. –…
Oct 18, 2013 • 42 comments
Legends are central to any culture, ours perhaps more than most. The Ventoux is a French legend, rising 1912m above the rolling hills of Provence.…
Jul 5, 2013 • 21 comments
There are many paths to learning lessons, many of which have their merits. Reading a book, for instance, is a popular way of learning something.…
May 15, 2013 • 168 comments
We close out the 6 Days of the Giro with our sixth and final installment. A body at rest, stays at rest. A body in…
Feb 25, 2013 • 37 comments
Sometimes, getting the job done means doing it by any means necessary. Football coaches, who have just seen their team scrape out a win by…
Dec 31, 2012 • 148 comments
I can’t really call it an obsession. If it was an obsession, I would have commissioned a bloke I’ve never met to build me a…
Dec 21, 2012 • 252 comments
Truth be told, how many of us can resist a photo of ourselves Looking Fantastic on the bike? How many of us can resist the…
Jul 29, 2012 • 32 comments
@936adl loves a Cogal and he didn’t mess around with this one. Later today the San Francisco Cogal report and next week the much awaited…
Jun 29, 2012 • 66 comments
@eightzero is throwing down the sweaty gauntlet here. He has a vision of a V-kitted, Rule compliant freight train of pain. Normally this post would…
Apr 23, 2012 • 93 comments
With Keepers Tour: Cobbled Classics 2012 stitched up and in the history books, the challenge of documenting the trip became immediately obvious; how do you…
Apr 17, 2012 • 82 comments
With Keepers Tour: Cobbled Classics 2012 stitched up and in the history books, the challenge of documenting the trip became immediately obvious; how do you…
Apr 13, 2012 • 140 comments
With Keepers Tour: Cobbled Classics 2012 stitched up and in the history books, the challenge of documenting the trip became immediately obvious; how do you…
Jan 27, 2012 • 88 comments
One of the cairns on the unknowable path to Cyclist is riding one’s first unimaginable distance. In the non-metric world it would be the first…