Last week, I logged my one hundred thousandth kilometre on Strava! That might not be a lot compared to some, but it’s certainly a milestone for me.
Tag: road cyclist
The disc brake generation
Something occurred to me the other day. A thought. There’s probably a whole new generation of road cyclists that have never ridden anything apart from disc brakes. Disc brake equipped road bikes have been around long enough as the “mainstream” braking option that anyone starting their road cycling journey in the last couple of years…
2022 Resolution Ride #10 – First long ride on the meds
I’ve actually completed a couple of hundreds this month, but this one was the first since moving onto my full medication regime. I rolled out with the intention to ride hard and see how my body (and mind) reacted to the longer endurance ride with some efforts thrown into the mix.
2022 Resolution Ride #09 – Dancing on the pedals
Ever have one of those days where everything just clicks? Where you’re simply dancing on the pedals and floating across the tarmac? It doesn’t happen often, but when it does, you just know. My ride did not start that way, in fact it started early when the temperature was barely nudging 5 degrees. I couldn’t…
Where have all the real men (and 23mm tyres) gone?
Whatever happened to the 23mm tyre? It seems over the last few years it’s fallen out of favour and replaced with wider, softer, higher volume rubber. It’s coincided with bikes going soft too. Bring back the skinny I say! Bring back the days of stiff-as-a-board race pedigree road bikes rolling on skinny tyres pumped up…
Check out: Fit Recovery
My American brother-from-another-mother Big Jim over at Fit Recovery recently rolled over ONE MILLION VIEWS on his website. How cool is that? He’s a cyclist, father, husband, and all-round damn good guy writing about cycling and recovery from addiction (and about bowling too, for some reason 😜). A man of many wise words who can…
Two Wheels with TC 