A Girls' Cycling Compendium

Although I've been having a bash at racing for a few years now, I've never actually done a proper cross country race...until today t...

Vikki's post about taking the scenic route home reminded me of what I first liked about cycling : being able to travel under my own ste...

Taking the scenic route , a photo by jumbly on Flickr. Commute. Summer. Scenic route. Perfect. Vikki

After six months of being utterly focused on training towards the Marmotte, I'm feeling demotivated and struggling to get properly back ...

I've learnt : How to manage heat. I live in England where summer is a notional period in the diary rather than an actual indicator of ho...

Last weekend was the Black Mountains 3 Day race and it was a fabulous weekend. We were lucky with the weather and spent 2 long days riding ...

As the big day approached I started to get more and more apprehensive about the task ahead of me. Tears were shed. Kit was organised. Re-org...

I think I've been suffering from some bad bike karma after selling the Jooly. Firstly, the Spot's been getting mysterious flats...fi...

It's been a long time coming (almost 2 years in fact), but I was finally persuaded to sell my Jooly Superlight at the weekend and I feel...

OUCH. I have road rash, whiplash and a bashed helmet. On my last long ride yesterday I came a cropper in the rain, with an unexpected car mo...

Pain au chocolate in Chamonix, France; pizza and icecream in Cormayeur, Italy and muesli in Champex-Lac, Switzerland. A delicious 4 days of...

So for the last six months I've been mostly on my bike. Or stretching. Or yawning and complaining about how tired I am. You see I've...

I've been very quiet on this blog since I got back from racing the Patagonian Expedition Race in February. Well that's because a com...

Friday saw 7 girls turn up at Gisburn Forest for the scary skills day, sorry, Jumps and Drops day, with Ed from Great Rock . I was a bag of ...

Just a quick reminder that this coming Saturday (21st May), we're hosting a ride from Hebden Bridge. If we end up with a very large grou...

This weekend was the European and UK 24 and 12 hour solo champs . It was the same venue as last year, Newcastleton, Scotland (just down the ...

How do you know when it's finally time to say goodbye to your favourite old shorts? Is it when the stitching frays a bit along the seems...

Today was officially a lovely spring day! I've not been able to get out riding all week, so this morning's blue skies and tweety bir...

the clocks have gone forward and it's all downhill from here. don't waste it are the words of the week. there's enough light in...

Fi writes: I've been back from Chilean Patagonia for a month. Sorry about the delay. I feel like in the past 48 hours the post race fog ...