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…
“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…
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…
“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…
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…
Say hello to two of our long standing members Rich and Tom Seipp! Rich and Tom are endurance bike riders. Though Tom is only 11 he has managed in the last few years, along with his Dad, to…
As part of my plan to build up my fitness in advance of this year’s Yorkshire 3 peaks CX, I entered the inaugural Aggregate 100K as a test for both my injury recovery, general fitness and my 3…