Tour de france mechanics 21 july, 1930

Organised chaos and hot stress. That’s the first thing that comes to mind when I think of the Tour de France. Then I worry if I will have enough shirts to last over four weeks on the road covering fir

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

Previous pages, top right: ‘The whole of Alto de El Morredero on Stage 17 was a barren, blackened landscape as far as the eye could see. Spain had had some of its worst ever wildfires there about a mo

The Doc decides that most cycling disciplines are all a little bit unusual

Back in 2018, I took the new 3T Strada for a month’s riding in Australia. It was fitted with SRAM’s Force 1 mechanical groupset and I thought the new-fangled 1x11 setup would be all I’d need for road

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