In the depths of winter, your love for the bike can wane. Summer, with its shorts and short-sleeves, its trips to the mountains, and its spike in form, seems a long way off. Dips in strength and grim rides through mucky local roads into headwinds, on cold and uncooperating legs, can make you question why you …
A chat with Pete Harrison: The pursuit of power, the power of porridge
Pete Harrison has watts. Lots of watts. More watts than I can even comprehend. And whether these watts need pumping out in a twenty minute frenzied surge of adrenaline and caffeine (more of which later) in a local 10 mile TT, or whether they need carefully managing over the controlled burn of an ironman leg, …
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An idiot’s guide to the Haute Route Dolomites 2017 parcours: A guide written by an idiot
Well, the long awaited parcours for the Haute Route Dolomites has been revealed. Having made some ill informed and throwaway comments on the Alps route here, it would be rude to not have a look at the Dolomites too, given I’m riding that as well. I’ve never ridden the Swiss/Austrian Alps or Dolomites, so can’t …
