Chainline

By Michael Sleeman. Last weekend, Luke and I travelled to Llangollen in North Wales to compete in the National Hill Climb Championship on the “Old Shoe”. The obligatory day-before recce revealed the scale of the challenge that lay ahead. The climb is 1.55 km long (just under a mile) with an average gradient of 13%.…

By Phil Starling. – Following the Front Line from Passchendaele to Mesen – Whilst contemplating joining the Club’s annual October trip to take part in the Mouscron Randonnée, 4 of us thought it would be interesting to ‘bolt on’ a visit to the infamous battlefields of Flanders – scene of the bloodiest fighting of the…

By AJ Isaacs. Ride Across Britain: an event like no other, led by a company called Threshold Sports with a tagline ‘More Is In You.’ When you think of bucket list rides LEJOG is definitely featuring, but to most this is an aspiration and not something you think you can do or would choose to…

By Jez Frost. This was my second outing for the DD with much thanks to the Club’s superb organisation. As without, it would be really challenging to organise; unless you are one of the crazies like Richard Pendlebury who does the DD Double – respect Richard! First time out, I’d taken the get there quickly…

By Gavin Belcher. Watching the Tour de France come up the Col Du Granon yesterday, stage 11… as the riders all came back down to the buses parked at the bottom Wout Van Aert rode past me and only a second later he was off his bike pressing his back tyre with it slowly deflating…