Riders on the storm…

Summer holidays… wide-open beaches… beating sun… ice cream… factor 50. I didn’t get any of this, but that’s what you get for bike touring in September. Over the last few years I’ve been on some sort of cycling holiday with my dad, it’s become something of a Dibble tradition. After the lockdown and the closing …

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The Clough Stuff…

Being of the disposition to be constantly scouring over maps, mostly of my local area, in the constant hunt for new roads, lanes, tracks and bridleways to ride, inevitably one finds that the original boundaries one holds become more and more relaxed in relation to what can be defined as rideable.   Having ridden pretty much …

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Living the Life of Baz Luhrmann’s Sunscreen…

Welcome to my second post for Grass Up the Middle! I’m not your traditional grass-up-the-middler: I only ride SWorks race bikes; every ride is training; and I only ride nicely paved roads—mud, cobbles, and off-road are all off limits! So why be an [honourary] member of Grass-Up-the-Middle? I luckily got to know Paul very well …

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