Plan A was to go to Wales in late October and explore the gravel tracks in the mountains west of Rhayader. Then Storm Brian arrived and Plan B looked more attractive. The problem was, Plan B was only loosely formed: ‘find somewhere a lot further south –...
My cycling guilty secret: I love gravel more than any other surface. Even more than cobbles, although it’s a close run thing. I’m currently half-way through a project to find the best 100 mile ride in Wales containing as much gravel as possible: more on...
Pictures by SGL, Jimi Thomson of TTT and Kev Mellalieu. Words by SGL. Click on any image to view fullscreen and then use your back button to return to the story. It was pitch dark. A few hundred metres ahead, I could see two rear lights blinking away and to my right,...
All photos by Kev Mellalieu. Click to view full screen and then use your back button to return to the story. I’ve never been good in traffic jams. It’s one of the reasons that I moved out of London. We’d been stationary, engine switched off, for...
It all started in April 2013 when I rode the full distance Liege-Bastogne-Liege sportive, a day ahead of the pro-race, as the final day of Phil Deeker’s ‘hArdennes’ training camp. At the time, it was by far the toughest ride I’d done and it...
Words by Sir Guy Litespeed, photos by Robbrecht Desmet of Too Soon, Too Late All the photos here are reproduced with the very kind permission of Robbrecht Desmet, film maker and photographer: https://www.facebook.com/toosoontoolatefilms/...
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