“i cycled through spain on a fixed gear to raise £5,000 for charity”

In the mid-1980s, despite regularly making nuisances of ourselves at our local bike shop, my girlfriend Josie and I were determined to resist all attempts to turn us into racing cyclists. While happy

Tracey on the English border S omething ...

There are some good eggs in the bike industry, and Jake Ireland from Sprung Suspension is one of them. He’s always keen to help with my suspension-related woes, working his magic on my longtermers’ fo

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Want to cycle 1,000 miles across rugged Scottish terrain, climbing more than twice the height of Everest? Oh, and it’s totally unsupported. Then try the Trans Alba race: you don’t have to be mad to do it, but it probably helps!

When Tracey Howe began her year-long walk around the coast of Britain, the weather suited her mood. “I was very angry,” she admits. “I was raging that my wife and partner of almost 40 years had been t