Archive for June, 2006

Great Divide Race

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

The Great Divide Race is ongoing at the moment. A couple of thousand miles, off-road, down the line of the Rocky Mountains, from the Canadian border to Mexico. Unsupported. On bikes.

Three guys even set off on fixies, but only one is still in the race at the moment.

“…and yeah, this fixie thing, […]

Solitude Build

Monday, June 26th, 2006

As I mentioned earlier, I won a custom built bike frame at SSUK2006 from Alex at Solitude Cycles. I finally got round to filling in the build sheet tonight. Here are my replies to some of the questions. Caution: I ramble.

WHAT SORT OF RIDING WILL YOU BE DOING? (Track? Off-road? 24hr […]

It’s the end of the world as we know it…

Thursday, June 15th, 2006

…but everyone seems to feel fine.

He wants us to buy hybrid cars and compact fluorescent lightbulbs. He proposes many other things like that—including walking and biking “wherever possibleâ€?—baby steps in the right direction. Add up all the baby steps and, sure, it’s a tick in the right direction, sort of like getting people to move […]

Nigel Havers. What a tosser.

Tuesday, June 13th, 2006

Bez responds to Nigel Havers spouting a load of crap about cyclists in the Daily Mail.

SSUK 2006

Monday, June 5th, 2006

SSUK2006 happened at the weekend. Lots of great riding, with some cool people.

I rode up to Hamsterley from home on the Saturday morning, with all my camping gear on the rack on the back of the Kona singlespeed. I’ve no idea what it weighed, but I couldn’t lift the back wheel off the […]