From Commuter to Fixed, Road, Gravel, MTB and Cyclocross Racer
My cycling journey has been a long and eventful one. I’m naturally curious and enjoy exploring new disciplines, challenging myself and throwing everything I have at things to see where it leads. I’ve now been writing this […]
Race Day: Herne Hill Women’s Track League
After not racing track in ages I finally made it up to Herne Hill for Assos LDN’s Women’s Track League. With multiple categories, heaps of races, prizes, beer and good vibes, it was top fun! I managed to win a […]
My First Gravel Enduro Race
It’s kinda handy that I developed an interest in gravel racing right before Red Hook Crit announced there would be no races in 2019. It’s meant I’ve been able to properly explore a new discipline and thoroughly get to know […]
Top tips for fixed gear crit racers
I love anything fast, technical and intense and fixed gear crits are all of these and more. These relatively niche races are insanely fun races and essentially, the entire reason I became hooked on training and racing. Fast paced and […]
Splat! Red Hook Crit Milan 18
It was meant to be the glorious end to the year’s racing. Training for the race had been a constant throughout the summer. I was hoping for a satisfying finish to a season, something to be proud of and I’d […]
A Grumpy Brussels City Crit
A couple of weekends ago I was standing next to a van shivering in torrential rain feeling sorry for myself. I contemplated hurtling around a wet 1km circuit on a brakeless track bike. I thought of the corners, two tight hairpins […]
A Triple Race Week
You know that saying about buses? You wait all day and then three come along at once? Well yeah, that. For various reasons such as clashing dates, travel, family, work (as well as a real cooling off of racing in […]
Minet Crit – Homegrown fixed gear racing
Around 12 noon on August 4th, the family and I rolled in to Hillingdon with our track bikes, rollers, push chair, cameras, mic, picnic, skinsuits, teddy bear and dummy. Though both Dave and I are keen racers, up […]
How to recover from crashing
Last week I was co-editing SKODA’s Instagram along with Hannah Barnes and we were fielding questions from followers, the idea being that they could ask us absolutely anything about cycling and win a signed OVO Energy Women’s Tour Queen of […]
Thundercrit – Racing the UK’s biggest fixed gear crit
My buddies at NTLCBMBC (North London Thunder Cats Black Metal Bicycle Club) took a real leap of faith when they launched Thundercrit three years ago. At the time, they were a relatively new team with a tiny budget and little […]
What should I eat for bike racing?
At a recent road race I was genuinely amazed when a fellow cyclist confessed that she didn’t know what to eat before a bike race to fuel her efforts, neither beforehand nor during the event itself. It seemed a real […]
Destroy Everything! Red Hook Crit Brooklyn 2018
Racing bikes is all about balance. Yes, you need it to stay upright but I’m talking about equilibrium of a difference sense here. It’s a world of extreme highs and lows. And though we’d all like more of the former, […]
The first crit of the season – Epic Gran Canaria
As I mentioned in my recent post, my trip to sunny Gran Canaria was a pretty last minute surprise. I hadn’t been expecting to kick off the road-racing season untill at least March and even then just with a local […]
Training Update: Fun vs Gains
Afternoon all! I’ve finally managed to find time to sit down for a minute with a cuppa and write a blogpost, something I’ve been meaning to do all week. Life is really hectic right now, despite this normally being the […]
The best rides of 2017
Like many cyclists, the end of the road racing season in October is when I start looking back at what I’ve achieved and figuring out where I want to be in the future. It’s a time to reflect on […]
Crit racing reignited my fixed gear love affair
It all happened on that fateful day, when my borrowed road bike was stripped of parts. As I stood outside my Dalston flat in the weak autumn sunshine gazing at the destruction some lowlifes had wreaked, I realised something had […]
Red Hook Crit Milan – The season finale
This weekend saw the Red Hook Crit season finale take place in Milan, the last of four international fixed gear races that I’ve geared much of my training around in 2017. Though Red Hook Crit London in 2015 was the […]
Red Hook Crit Barcelona 2017
“As any fixed gear critter which is the best race of the season and with ne’er a split second pause they’ll give you one answer – Red Hook Crit Barcelona. Though there are several obvious reasons why, namely the beach, […]
Red Hook Crit London 2017 – The wet one
Whereas Red Hook Crit London 2016 will forever be known as ‘the one that Dani King entered’ this year will be legendary for another reason – the atrocious weather. As it happened Dani King MBE (Olympic Gold medalist and team Wiggle […]
Video: Fixed 42 Fixed Gear World Championships
Sorry for the tardiness in getting this up here but somehow this video slipped through the net and I never got around to posting it on Bikes n’ Stuff. This summer has been as hectic as always so I’ve […]