The challenge is to cycle from one end of the UK to the other in 5 days! Starting on Monday 5th June to the 10th June four cyclists will leave Lands End and hopefully all being weel and good they will arrive at John O’Groats on the following Friday. The journey will cover the full length of the United Kingdom with daily milage reaching 175 miles and an estimated 12 hours in the saddle each...
Adam Chamberlin
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Last night the Sudbury Cycle Club’s evening Time Trial took on a different meaning, it was an Interclub challenge with Colchester Rovers. Due to the road works outside Lavenham the course was changed from the regular 10mile to the shorter 8mile Bridge Street. Sudbury was out in force with a sea of orange and white shirts at the sign on, however the opposing red and black of Colchester meant they...
For a few months I have been hassling Rob about Sram and their plans for the road side of the cycling market. If you have a mountain bike the chances are you are running one of two makes on the gears/transmission; SRAM or Shimano. Shimano have always been the leader but since SRAM broke into a MTB world they have taken it by storm, there simple ergonomic approach to levers and gears just works....
Some of you might know of a little cycle race going on at the moment; the Giro d’Ilaila. For those that don’t here is a quick re-cap; imagine the Tour de Frane in Italy. Simple really, well that is the simple version. I’ve not been following this as closely as I would like but I caught up with the results after the Stage 11 Time Trial. Since Lance departed from racing last year there was a big...
I knew that Lyn was out of the office today, which meant I was going to pretty much be on my own. That was until I got into work. Meet my new work colleague, as much fun as he was I had to let him go, he was just not work material, he kept on going on about his family and was not really focused enough for my...
No that was not a typo that is my feelings towards the show. That’s right it is that time of year when we get the chance to watch of of life more ‘colourful’ charactors enter into a house and get cut off from the outside world. I’m talking about Big Brother, which is in it’s 8th carnation. As you can tell this is not really my type of viewing, seriously I could walk out into the street for better...
What have I gone and done? I’ve made the sacrifice to end all sacrifices, I’ve agreed with Lucy to sell my Audi so that we can get a car she can learn to drive in! Don’t get me wrong my Audi is nothing special, by modern standards anyway, but to me it is a lovely V6 engine that just purrs along. The problem is that I do not do enough miles to really justify having a car let alone that car but it...
Thats how long Lucy and I have been together now. It was about 8 years ago today we first really met and decided to give it a go. Well 2,922 days later it is all going well, of course we have our up’s and down’s but in the end I don’t think I would change it. Thanks...
Yesterday morning everything went a bit blurry as the realisation suddenly hit that, this time in three weeks I will be well on my way into the first day of the End 2 End challenge. I am currently in a state of fear about the journey, there is this massive black cloud of “will I make it” looming over my head. Added to this that at present sponsorship money is rolling in only adds to the...
I decided to finally purchase a new lens for my Canon. I’ve had my Canon 300D digital SLR for nearly two years and to be honest I’ve never really used it too the potential it is capable of. Now I have a Sigma 55-200mm to try...