Category - Gravel
Lap of My Mind Charity Challenge Summary by Matt Jones
Charity, Gravel, Road Biking
Lap of My Mind was an idea by Team JMCers Matt Jones and Alex Watts to raise funds for the mental health charities Mind and Calm, as well as funds to support their friends Alan Colville and Jon…
Welcome to our new team member Michael Donald
Cyclocross, Gravel, Mountain Biking, Road Biking
“Hi I’m Mike! My cycling life really started in the early 80s with a paper map and some youthful “daftness”. I’ve dabbled in CX racing, crits, club runs and gravel events including the Dirty Reiver, the Italy Divide…
Welcome to our latest team member Ben Othen
Cyclocross, Gravel, Mountain Biking, Road Biking
Welcome to our latest team member Ben Othen: ‘Hi I’m Ben. I’ve been riding mountain bikes for most of my life and working in the cycle trade for nearly as long most recently as the manager of Bikeshak and…
Welcome to our latest team member Jason Woodhouse
Fat Bike, Gravel, Mountain Biking, Road Biking
“Hi I’m Jason Woodhouse. I threw myself in at the deep end of cycling, riding a third of the way around the world solo and unsupported as part of the 2012 World Cycle Race. Since then I’ve dabbled…
Phil Simcock’s Season Catch-Up [Bloggage]
Cyclocross, Gravel, Mountain Biking
I’ve been busy doing a lot of bike racing since my last blog after the Manx 100, back in July 2017. Here’s a brief catch-up: Having caught the cyclocross bug during the previous winter, I set about organising…
Big Day Out for Richie Scott at the Dirty Reiver
Gravel
“Reive” is an early English word for “to rob”, from the Northumbrian and Scots verb reifen from the old English rēafian, and thus related to the archaic standard English verb reave (“to plunder”, “to rob”), and to the modern English word “ruffian”. Well plunder it did. Left knee to be exact…
Jason Miles’s Dirty Weekend
Gravel
Some people, who claim to be sensible people, absolutely avoid at all costs taking a brand new, never-ridden bike to ride in a bike race. A very long, hard bike race in a remote location with no mobile…