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Enigma Esprit Titanium Road Bike… For Hire
This new bike with beautiful Italian styling, made from 3AL-2.5V Titanium, has just joined our hire fleet. Newly built in May 2014 by Dave of DC Cycles, Ulverston, with Campagnolo Record Drive train, and Record hubs on Pianni wheels. However this Enigma Esprit,...
Saddleback Fred Whitton Challenge 2014
The entries have opened once again for this epic ride. So big now, that the start has had to decamp from Coniston to Grasmere, only a few miles as the migrating geese fly. Still we have vacancies for your bikes and bodies, here at Coal Yeat Farm Holiday cottages. Why...
Britain’s Best Road Bike Ride? – The Lake District Loop!
TCycling Plus readers have voted this 40 mile South Lakeland cycle loop the best ride in Britain, and its on my door step! A ride devised by James Hodgson, from Broughton in Furness, passes within a few yards of our base here at Lowick, and many of the routes miles...
Autumnal Cycling In The Lake District
Where has the summer gone? Now the trees are turning and the bracken is again its rusty winter brown, it’s still great fun to cycle the Lakeland lanes. The Lake District is internationally famous for its fantastic range of Autumnal colours. This ‘back end’ has been...
Cycling The Scented Lakeland Lanes
What a pleasure to the senses cycling this summer is, here in the Lake District. The late cool spring has delayed all the flowers and as a consequence the roadside verges have been a mass of blooms. The heady scent of Bluebells, bright blue and the sweet wafts from...
Sir Bradley Wiggins – ‘itis’
So the Giro in Italy, plagued by bad weather, is almost over and our favorite had to retire. How Bradley Wiggins managed to pedal for so long with such an acute chest/nasal infection is very creditable. Here in Cumbria I have taken two weeks off my bike, as I too have...
Cycling with Bradley Wiggins?
What other sport can you think of when you can unwittingly share the road with a multi Olympic gold medal winner and tour De France winner? Well, while slowly climbing up to the Luc Monastery on Mallorca last week I waved on a car only to be amazed at the blur of...
Spring Sunshine Cycling In The Lake District
BRRRR… IT MAY BE FROSTY AT NIGHT, but the days are sunny and the roads dry. This Easter in the Lake District here on the West of England we are sheltered from the strong, cold East winds. This is giving us perfect cycling conditions with stunning views of the snow...
Frost Bike on the Bike?
It's been a great dry month (late February/early March) but very cold with severe night frosts. Having Skiied and Snowboarded in the frosty chills of Canada (down to -40C) my nose has previously been frost bitten. Once exposed to frost bite the skin never heals 100%...
Winter Sun Cycling In The Lake District?
Yes, I have been to find the winter sun in Morocco with Margaret, my wife. I packed our bikes and headed South in February, flying with Thompson the bikes only cost £30 return. We were on an organised tour of the Atlas Mountains, with a dozen other cyclists. Up at...