Sep 20, 2012

A crap drive to Portreath for the latest round of the Cornish series left me in a foul mood as I arrived at 2.35pm for what was advertised as a 3.00pm start. My mood darkened further when I was told the start was actually 4.00pm, so I’d stressed for nothing and my missus was going to be angry when I eventually crawled home. The E12 field was also going to be ‘compact’, far more compact than it should be for a warm sunny day in September,...

Sep 20, 2012

Race report from James Williams The long and short of it is that I won – which was very nice, as I’d been obsessing all week about it. As always, Paignton was a great race, unbelievably intense, and as pure as it gets. Mid Devon fielded a strong team, as did us Primal lads, but from the off, it was the Mid Devon lads driving the pace hard. You get little time to settle in at Paignton – ok you get no time at all – so you need...

Aug 1, 2012

Purple Harry’s Bike Cleaning perfection! Doh!  Why did I not think of that?  This is one of those clever ideas that seems so obvious yet so clever.  Essentially pipe cleaners with different levels of abrasiveness plus a handy mitt with cleaning products that actually works. So could these products clean the dirtiest bike on the planet mine!!! At the Box hill Olympic Expo the girls from Purple Harry took on the challenge… Once the...

May 27, 2012

Now that the evening Ilton series is about to start I thought I would talk about how to ride in the crosswinds which always affect the racing up there. Ilton is a great place to learn how to ride in crosswinds, its always windy up there and the wind socks for the airfield make it really easy to see which way the wind is coming from. The principle of an echelon is based on the fact that when the wind is coming at you from the side, the best...

Apr 27, 2012

Stage 3 was 88 miles in Waterville, by far the hilliest of all the stages going through mountains all day then onto a island in exposed winds and then going through the mountains the opposite way to the finish. A break went away early on stage 3 of around 8 riders. As Colin was only a handle full of seconds down on GC and I was only around 30 seconds. We decided to push on in the early climbs. Forcing a break of around 12 away about 20km through...