Stories from
the road
(and beyond!)
“Twice the fun, since ‘71!” - Why clubs matter more than ever.
For all the benefits of data-driven fraternisation, the immediate answer to a question from a random, if enthusiastic and potentially knowledgeable person on Facebook is perhaps not as valuable as the shared expertise of someone who knows you a little better, and who you can trust - where there is the ‘after sales service’ you get from friendships built around mutual investment in sharing an interest.
My #Festive500 - By Ruth Jones (age 7¾)
On the first day, I started the Festive 500 with my Daddy. I felt excited and determined to do 500 kilometres in 8 days. We went on roads that I knew and roads I had never been on before.
Our new, old bike - Just how green are we cyclists?
The question, as usual with an old bike, becomes ‘how far do you go?' We’ve ridden the bike, it works, it goes and stops, but the handlebar grips and twist shifters are ergonomically heretical, the chainrings look like a circulating shiver of sharks, and the ‘it’s knackered, change everything’ 0.75mm chain wear gauge flaps around in the links of both chains like a drunkard's wotsit in a pub toilet.