Train, train, train… Work hard. Track your results… Maybe not get quite enough sleep. Probably won’t eat quite as well as we should, and well, come race day, just hope for the best. Sound familiar? If not, then good for you, but if so, count yourself among some good company because I’d bet most of [...]

Just like you, I’m busy. Sometimes I have to work late, sometimes I have to mow the lawn, sometimes I’ve got to look after the little lad… The list is seemingly endless. Oftentimes, this barrage of commitments limits my ability to plan and coordinate group rides – I’m not lamenting this fact, it’s just life. [...]

Yes, that’s right, I’m declaring cyclocross season officially open! Okay, maybe it’s not quite cyclocross season yet, (we still have some great mtb and road racing ahead of us) but I’ve already been out for two CX rides, and seen a lot Facebook chatter about racers getting their new whips built up, tuned up and [...]

116km, 6,490 calories, 4,046m of climbing and 3 days later, the inaugural Furious 3 is behind us. As I had lamented in a post prior to the race, I was feeling a little undertrained. And by undertrained, I mean that I hadn’t really trained at all, and that my time on the bike almost solely [...]

Stage Three (the final leg) of the inaugural Fernie edition of the Furious 3 mountain bike race is in the bag! It was another early morning start (8am) for racers, and despite an initial false start due to reports there was a train blocking the route out of town, everything got underway smoothly. There were [...]

Stage Two of the Furious 3 mountain bike race began with an early morning 8am start, as racers were sent off in three waves. The first wave was comprised of the racers who’d posted the fastest times yesterday. Team Mike & Mike (Team PEDAL) were in this group today, having come in an impressive 7th [...]

Riders rolled into the start area en mass with gleaming bikes, and high expectations for the first day of Fernie singletrack, and based on what everyone said afterwards, it delivered in spades. Though the first stage today, was by some measure, ‘short’ (40km), the elevation gain more than made up for it, with the course [...]

Back in June of 2010 I wrote about the big changes the UCI had in store for the 2011 cyclocross season… In particular, disc brakes. Since then, any technological progress has been pretty quiet, but now the first prototypes are starting to appear! Whilst browsing VeloNews’ coverage of the 2011 Sea Otter Classic I ran [...]

2011 Tour of California — Intro from RAPHA on Vimeo. Always one to enjoy a good bike film, I wanted to highlight the series of short web-films from Rapha about their own 2011 Tour of California experience. Of course, Rapha, already being known for their unique style, these short films don’t disappoint, offering an effective [...]

Back in November I wrote about a pretty cool lil’ iPhone app/game that was in the works called Hipster City Cycle – Well, after a few more months of development it’s finally here! It makes it’s debut in the App Store today, but Bikeridr got it’s hands on the app early so I’ve used the [...]