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John really saved the day for my Fred Whitton Challenge this weekend. On the way to registration at Grasmere with Graham my Di2 failed, due to a faulty connection with the battery unit, leaving me with no usable road bike in Cumbria the day before the ride. No stress,...

Miles ridden - 668Longest ride - 104 (ride from Cumbria to York)Hrs ridden - 39Number of bike sessions - 24FTP - 330/5wFred hills ridden - 2 (Wyrnose, Hardknott) April- A bit of everything! The final month of training before the event saw me do a bit of everything-...

Miles ridden- 676 103- A hilly hundred taking in some of the route Hrs ridden- 40 Number of bike sessions- 30 FTP- 330/5w Fred hills ridden- 3- Kirkstone, Honister and Newlands March- the racing season has begun! This has been a month of crit racing, my first 100...

Miles ridden- 557Longest ride- 84- Lune CC Coal Rd Challenge Reliability RideHrs ridden- 33 milesNumber of bike sessions- 21FTP- 330/5wFred hills ridden- 0- But did some horrible ones in Lancashire! February has been a good month of training. As usual the weather has...

It's a few years since I had my bike fit by Hewitt Cycles of Leyland, so I recently had a full physio and bike fit with Lifecycle in Milnthorpe. Gavin Thomas runs Lifecycle  and is a HCPC registered physiotherapist with 20 years experience of muscular-skeletal...

Miles ridden- 633Longest ride- 75.4 - Club ride to CarnfothHrs ridden- 38 milesNumber of bike sessions- 25FTP- 330wFred hills ridden- 0 I have decided to enter the Fred Whitton Challenge again this year, maybe a daft idea: as it can pay havoc trying to train for long...

Having ridden the Fred Whitton Challenge on two previous occasions in times of just over 8 hours, Graham is aiming for a sub 8 hour 2016 ride. To achieve this goal, an arduous training regime has been implemented by Graham's coach. This involves not only long...

A free sample of RRA tendons, muscles and ligaments BIM for everyone who hires a bike for more than one day. What, you may ask, are you offering? Well this is what I take every time prior to and after a cycle ride. This oral spray – yes that right you spray it on your...

As the sun shines here in the Lake District and the Daffodils lift their yellow heads skywards, the temperatures are rising. Spring is coming very soon, and the hour will very shortly spring forward to British Summer time. Long evenings and the dawn chorus as the...

My bike hire fleet here in the Lake District National Park has dramatically expanded for 2015, with a larger range of road frame sizes and gear ratios to suit all types and sizes of road cyclists. Yes, I make no apologies for concentrating on offering for hire some of...

So ‘Le Tour’ has been and gone from sunny Yorkshire, splendid as it was! But what could be a more fitting memento to the Grand Depart in West Yorkshires Dales than a 15ft high sculptural dry stone wall, erected – or rather built – near Ripley Castle. This was built in...

Having ridden this route anti-clockwise it was time to ride it again clockwise. On a perfect August day with blue skies, no wind, and a cool summer morning Nick and I left Lowick heading North to Coniston Water. Nick is a cyclist from Toronto, Canada over in the Lakes...