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"Isle of Fright!" screamed the page-three headlines in the newspaper that morning announcing the discovery of a new species of 'vicious' flesh-eating dinosaur that had been found embedded in the 120 million year-old cliffs of England's fair and gentle Isle of Wight. Believing this walking nightmare to be the long-elusive great-great-grand-daddy of Tyrannosaurus rex,...
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By now I’ve had the opportunity to put a few hundred miles on my new randonneur and having become better acquainted with it, I have to say that the quality that amazes me the most about it and puts a big smile on my face every time I climb aboard, is just how beautifully...
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Strolling accordion players and trained poodle acts are but two of the many things in this world that are beyond my peasant comprehension, and to that list I would add those weekend warriors who shell out anything up to a hundred and twenty quid (each!) to put carbon-fibre drink bottle cages on their bicycles.
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When I think back on all the hours I spent in pleasurable anticipation of the hand-built touring bicycle I was having made-to-order, I find the most enjoyable - and the most exasperating - were the ones I spent perusing the big, tattered fold-out colour chart I'd borrowed from the frame-makers' shop, trying to pick...
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One thing you'll never see cluttering up my handlebars is a cycling computer - let alone one of those exotic GPS devices that pinpoints your position on the globe, charts your course, monitors your speed, cadence, distance, elevation gains and counts your heart rate and, while it's about it, also measures your power output...
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I see that the new season's bicycle headlamps are now hitting the pre-Christmas stands with manufacturers boasting more dazzling brightness and beam intensity than ever before. We're up to 3000 lumens now for Niterider's very brightest, top-of-the-range headlamp - surely overkill for all but the fastest, most dangerous late-night MBT descents and twenty-four-hour mountain...
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This morning at long last I finally replaced the worn-out chain on my old Thorn tourer, which these days serves as my winter bike. It was high time. I'd been giving the incumbent chain the benefit of the doubt for quite a while now but even my most optimistic self could see it was...
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I generally take my coffee black, no cream, no sugar, no nonsense, and until a few months ago I'd have said pretty much the same thing about the way I take my bicycle tyres too - straight black, double shot. After forty-seven years of riding the same-old, same-old, it wouldn't even have occurred to...
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They call it the sleigh ride: the three-hour flight on a ski-equipped Hercules cargo plane from the U.S. base at McMurdo to that most exotic of Antarctic destinations: the South Pole. Schoolboy keen, I showed up early at the icy airstrip, bundled up, bags packed, eager to go. It was the summer of 2000...
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Welcome to My-Bicycle-and-I
By way of introduction I am a magazine writer and sometime photographer who loves bicycles and cycling—not to race or get fit or even commute, but for the simple pleasure of being abroad in the world on two skinny wheels.
Since I enjoy writing nearly as much as I enjoy riding, I decided to put together this eclectic collection of stories, essays, reviews and columns.
I hope you'll find some things you like. Read a bit more here.
