Tag: cycling
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The Yellow Jersey by Peter Cossins
The first thing to say about this book is that it’s beautifully made. Telling stories from the Tour isn’t a new idea – there are dozens of books that, quite often, recycle the same stories of races of yesteryear. But this book takes as its starting point the Yellow Jersey. This year is the 100th…
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The Tour According to G: My Journey to the Yellow Jersey by Geraint Thomas
For many people, Geraint Thomas was the surprise of last year’s Tour de France. He had gone into the race as joint leader with Chris Froome with Team Sky. Having spent years as a loyal lieutenant, he’d be a protected rider. While Froome had triumphed in the Giro d’Italia earlier in the year, to become…
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One Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels by Jonathan Vaughters
As the Tour de France is underway – as I write, they’re on the first rest day – I thought I’d catch up on a few cycling books, both new and ones I’ve been sitting on for a few weeks/months/years. First up is One Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels by Jonathan Vaughters. Vaughters…
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Champagne Superova: Sport and TV
Sunday was an incredible day for sport. Personally, I spent quite a lot of time flicking between ITV4 and Eurosport’s coverage of Stage 9 of the Tour de France, with South Africa’s Daryl Impey winning from a breakaway on France’s national day. But I was also watching quite a lot of cricket – especially early…
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Hire Bikes and Hire E-Bikes in London
There are now at least four major public bike hire schemes across London. There is the original TfL run Santander Cycles (aka Boris Bikes) using docking stations, the Chinese-owned dockless bike system Mobike, the electric-assist Lime bikes, and now the electric-assist Uber Jump bikes which launched this week in London. There was also Ofo, another…
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Giro d’Italia
Today was the start of the Giro d’Italia. The Slovenian rider, Primož Roglič, won the first stage time trial up to the Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca high above Bolognia. British rider Simon Yates came second, while Londoner Tao Geoghegan Hart finished 7th. There are three weeks of riding to look forward to,…
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British Cyclo-Cross National Championships 2019
Last weekend, I headed down to the Cyclopark in Gravesend to see the British National Cyclo-cross Championships. These are held annually and the winner gets to wear their national flag on their jersey for a year (unless they go on to win the World Championships of course). The event was taking place at the Cyclopark,…
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A Single Speed Conversion
You know how sometimes you’re idly looking for something on eBay, and you don’t find it. So you create a saved search for it on the off-chance that it comes up the future. Then you sit back and forget about it. Until… …One day an email drops into your inbox. The thing you were looking…
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Cycle to Work
This is a quick video I shot the other day of my ride to work. Shot with a cheap GoPro Hero 4 Session, I’ve run it through Microsoft’s Hyperlapse application. I’m not sure that app gets an awful lot of love, despite being really useful for making this kind of video. The stabilisation is immense,…
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Hertfordshire 100
Relive ‘A Very Wet Hertfordshire 100 (KM)’ You know how when you check the weather forecast for something, how you totally rely on it? Well that didn’t work out too well for me today. On Friday, on a whim, I signed up for the Hertfordshire 100, a cycling sportive that begins and ends not too…
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RideLondon Classique 2018
This last weekend saw a massive collision of all things cycling. It was the final weekend of the Tour de France – fabulously won by Geraint Thomas. That had been pushed back a week to stay clear of the World Cup. Meanwhile it was also the Saturday night of the Dunwich Dynamo, from London Fields…
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Geraint Thomas Wins the Tour
It has been thrilling over these last three weeks to see one of cycling’s real Mr Nice Guys win the Tour. I couldn’t say exactly when I first became aware of him, but Britain’s success on the track meant that I’d seen him pick up medals ahead of his gold at the Beijing Olympics in…
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Empty Essex
Empty Essex from Adam Bowie on Vimeo. Empty Essex is the name of ride in Jack Thurston’s excellent Lost Lanes book (NB. The first one. There have been two others since, for Wales and the West Country). The route starts in Southminster in Essex, heading out to Bradwell-on-Sea and past the St Peter-on-the-Wall chapel on…