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Going Dutch - an immersion in cycling culture
A family holiday to the north of the Netherlands, to a city where the per capita use of bikes is allegedly the highest in the world, seemed like a good excuse to load the car with the full compliment...
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Choosing your tread for cyclocross tubulars
The most common question I get asked about 'cross tubs, at races, in emails and on twitter is....What's a good all-rounder tread to get?Or a derivative thereof.It's a good question - most people asking...
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And so it begins... #cx13/14
Now we've got this out the way.....We can get on with this.....Pic: Joolze DymondAnd the questions I hope to have answered by February are:Which of the big Euro pros will be on discs? And if so, which...
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A 3 Peaks Cyclocross survival guide
After the flurry of excitement in early June that is the lottery of how to obtain a Three Peaks Cyclocross entry, my Inbox has been reasonably inundated with anxious newcomers to the race asking how...
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Pyrenees 2013
Shots from my recent family holiday that also included regular riding partner Mark and his family and a conveniently chosen Pyrenean location in the Departement de L'Aude nr Ax-les-Thermes.Cue plenty...
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Preparing for the Cross Season
August – summer days, holidays, barbeques, a bank holiday to look forward to, preparation for cyclocross.Old timers will know all this already. Hopefully. But if you are thinking about starting 'cross...
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30 days of Peaks
So for September, I thought I'd run a little microblog covering the 29 days leading up to + 1 after, this years 3 Peaks Cyclocross.Follow it here
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Lister Lion Cyclocross 14th September
It's not often that there are completely new 'cross events, in new venues. This is one of them. Put on by the experienced team from My-Tri events, led by Emma Osenton, it's set in the beautiful grounds...
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New team bikes - Planet X Pro Carbon XLS
I'm fortunate to be riding two new Planet X bikes this season, both Pro Carbon XLS disc bikes.I rode the sample XLS last season and found it superb for flat-out racing. This year's builds are Ultegra...
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3 Peaks Cyclocross 2013
“To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.” - Francois de la RochefoucauldThat should be my 3 Peaks maxim from now on. I messed up this year, despite dishing out supposedly learned...
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The loneliness of Penyghent Lane
Hands down my favourite shot of yours truly at the Peaks this year. Geoff Waugh has form with the Peaks already, though he is best known as a multi award winning photographer specialising in mtb and...
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Very remiss of me not to post this earlier....Dave Haygarth followed Mark, my ever faithful 3 Peaks supporter around on race day. Here's his short film about Mark and those other 'backroom' folk that...
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Rapha Super Cross - Broughton Hall
Pic: Ed RollasonThe Rapha Super Cross series has been in many ways a game changer for UK cyclocross. My first introduction to ‘cross was in the fields outside a windswept farm near Macclesfield in the...
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Introducing the On One Pickenflick
My riding career, 'cross wise, started in steel - good old fashioned 531 and then 653, eventually handmade for me by a NW framebuilder. And great those frames were too - comfortable, light enough for...
View ArticlePeel Park, Bradford - the UK's best 'cross course?
The National Trophy course at Peel Park, Bradford is for me, the complete cyclocross course. It has everything – hard climbs, running climbs, treacherous descents, tricky off camber, barriers and slick...
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Sport Cross 2nd Feb - ride and watch 'cross with The Green Jersey
I love the Ribble Valley - endless quiet lanes, great climbs and some cracking cafes. But it's somewhere I've never really taken a 'cross bike to, aside from the odd run round Gisburn Forest with the...
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AbsoluteBlack single ring set up
I used to run a single ring, with guards, in the 1990s. I liked the simplicity of concept, it reduced weight a bit but more importantly it helped a bit with clogging. But since then I haven't really...
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Kerstperiode racing
Even for a cyclocross obsessed nation like Belgium, it is excessive. Six elite races in eight days between Boxing Day and Jan 2nd. Welcome to the kerstperiode.Opportunities to race to that degree in...
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Ronde van Oost Lancashire update
Andy Waterman's shots for the Cycling Plus feature on the Ronde, 2011I won't be running the Ronde van Oost Lancashire this year. Or any other year.After last year's cancellation due to adverse weather,...
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Dave Haygarth writes:Like all people who do not realise that we are all cyclists at heart, David Bramwell went and inadvertently wrote a song about cycling. He just needed this video to let him know...
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Chute
Chute, valpartij, incidente, choque......If you ride a bike, at some point you will crash. Pro cyclists know this as an inescapable part of the job, the 'metier' of being a professional bike rider....
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Despatches from the Cone of Shame
It’s part comforter, part tormenter and definitely a fashion statement for the ‘broken’. We’ve been together nearly 4 weeks now, but have plenty more time planned for each other in the near future...
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Regular visitors to this page will have noticed a paucity of posts over the last few months. This has in part been due to an accident-induced lack of riding and therefore lack of inspiration on my...
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Fluent in Cross cyclocross coaching days - Summer 14
Pic: Jo Allen New to cyclocross? Want to improve on your skills for the 2014/15 season? Learn from Fluent in Cross with BC qualified coach Mark Turner and myself...Friendly and fun coaching in the...
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Fluent in Cross and the Crossjunkie blog
My new project Fluent in Cross is now live at www.fluentincross.co.ukAs such, FiC will become the vehicle for most of my cyclocross related musings and output, leaving this blog as a more personal...
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