Oh Deer…
So here’s a run down of my week. Brought to you by the words: Etape Caledonia, Deer, Clavicle, Surgeon, & Alps. And the number 21.7. I like the Etape Caledonia. I’m not a big fan of...
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Our core business is niche Price Comparison websites. We have some very successful sites like Boot Mooch and iPod Prices that perform a simple but valuable service saving people 30 minutes or more of...
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In 1982 at the tender age of 15 my pal Duncan and I persuaded our parents to let us ride around northern France unaccompanied and carrying all of our own gear. We used the same bikes that we rode to...
View ArticleBradley Wiggins On Tour. Lewi’s Homework
I am writing about one of my favourite cyclists who was in my favourite race this year. The author is Bradley Wiggins and this book is an autobiography of his time in this year’s Tour de France....
View ArticleFirst Time Wheel Building
If I were half the blogger that I should be then this post would have started a couple of weeks ago and continued in regular installments as the build of my very first bicycle wheel took shape. You...
View ArticleIt fits where it touches.
A bicycle is a human powered machine. We, the rider, make 3 points of contact with our bike and through these points of contact we move ourselves and our machines. An hour of pedaling will see us spin...
View ArticleBicycles at Sportive Kinross – It’s all about firsts
On Saturday April 23rd 2011 at the Sportive Kinross three generations of our family will ride together. Nothing particularly remarkable in this but for 2 of the 3 generations it will be their first...
View ArticleCycling Helmets, the law according to Bicycles
Every cycling website has a heated debate about helmets somewhere in its midst. Bicycles won’t have this because we are going to risk the wrath of the fundamentalists and have a defined stand on...
View ArticleStar Gazing
As we plan our classics trip for next spring we got to talking about the incredible accessibility we all have to the heroes of cycling. Earlier this year we were at the start of the Paris Roubaix where...
View ArticleMinding the Gaps not reinventing the wheel
Bicycles will try to do a few things that aren’t done elsewhere on the net. We will try to fill some of the gaps. From what we see reliable cycling information is quite hard to find so people go to...
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