Surviving the The Traka 100

It’s twenty-five minutes past six on the 1st Sunday of May. There’s no one but dog walkers and I on a foggy greenway that runs towards the Catalan city of Girona. Last night I slept early and I slept often – at one stage I was staring at the clock as it rolled over to […]

Gravel ride between dawn and sunrise, between the sea and the sky

Gravel ride between dawn and sunrise, between the sea and the sky, where the Pyrenees touch the Mediterranean on the Côte Vermeille, France, in sight of Catalonia. Photographs © Dave Walsh 2021 See this gallery on Instagram On my website

How to Ride from London to Paris – Part 2: Winter is coming…

How to ride on when the mercury tumbles Most cyclists – even the hardcore ones – agree on one thing: Riding in winter is nowhere near as pleasurable as riding in the warmer months and anyone who claims otherwise is a lunatic or a sadist. First there’s the cold; in temperatures lower than 5 degrees, […]

How to Ride from London to Paris: Part 1 – Getting Started

This is the first in a series of posts written by veteran Bloodwise London to Paris riders, for new riders looking to get started in training and planning for an L2P ride. Got something else you’d like some advice on? Give us a shout out in the comments below. “It never gets easier. You just […]

Full Gas: Lee Valley Winter Circuit Series

Karen Tostee (and others), racing for Hub Velo CC at the Full Gas Winter Criterium series, Lee Valley Velopark, January 27th 2018.

Buen Camino: Cycling the Camino De Santiago

The old man considered me carefully, sizing me up, his face a map of time. He looked me up and down, taking in my pale skin, my dust-spattered face, my shabby cycling gear, noisy cycling shoes and looked briefly over my shoulder at my fellow riders who were trying to form an orderly queue behind me. […]

Minimum Maximum

Minimum-maximum Beats per minute Minimum-maximum Beats per minute __________ Photography by Damien DeBarra © 2017. Image of Calvin Cheung, riding for Hub Velo. Taken at the London Velodrome, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Lee Valley. Lyrics from Elektro Kardiogramm by Kraftwerk

Up On The Hill

Now look up, look up higher and see It’s not as hard as you figured it would be Now two tons, two tons lighter Agreed, now, if it’s all right with you, then it’s all right with me And up on the hill is where you find us And up on the hill that […]