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 […]
My plans for 2019
Now that the dust has settled from 2018, I’ve enjoyed some time off at Christmas and mourned the loss of my favourite cat Sid (sob), it’s time to nail down my plans for 2019. With the huge change in […]
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 […]
Summer In Brief
The last few months have been really busy for me as though I’m not a professional cyclist in the traditional sense, I do make a living out of cycling through writing, consultancy, digital marketing and brand partnerships and the summer […]
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 […]
My Custom Wyndymilla Fixed Crit Race Bike
I’m really pleased to be racing fixed gear crits this year for a brand new team, Wyndymilla Hype Energy. Initially, I was unable to join a team and always raced solo as I’m sponsored by ASSOS (year round) and was […]
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 […]
My (Short Lived) Custom Carbon Track Bike
They say that bad luck comes in threes but I seem to be racking up the mishaps and misfortune at the moment. After a frankly quite horrible day that involved nearly breaking down on the way to Gatwick in a […]
Support Your Local Cycling Club!
A couple of nights ago I was sat in a golf club at a table of six. My husband and I had joined an octogenarian, Ken and his wife plus a couple we’d never met before. After sharing names, the […]
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 […]
24 Velodrome Race | Cyclone 24
With the final race of the Red Hook Crit series in the bag and the accumulated fatigue from a long season of racing making me feel somewhat lethargic and unmotivated, I decided to take a couple of weeks off training […]
Red Bull Foxhunt with EE and Apple Watch
Just last weekend my inbox pinged with receipt of a very exciting email asking, ‘Would you like to go to Red Bull Foxhunt in Wales to race mountain bikes and try out the new Apple Watch series 3 (GPS and 4G) […]
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 […]
Video: Racing the London Nocturne
Hello readers! Sorry for not having posted my latest video here for you guys, I’ve been dashing around as usual racing here, there and everywhere. Now that I’m back from a few days in Berlin (racing Fixed 42) I’m catching […]
Fixed Gear Crit season is here – But what is a fixed crit?
I’ve realised recently that I often harp on about fixed gear crits, them being my favourite races and all but that actually, not everyone actually know what the hell I’m talking about. And why would they? If you’re just not […]
Video: Ask Me Anything
Morning! A few months back (I know, I should maybe have done this a little quicker!) I asked my Instagram and Facebook followers to give me questions to answer for my new video and it seems that you guys are […]
How I’m #DrivenBySomethingDifferent
Hot on the heels of racing several rounds of the ŠKODA sponsored Tour Series, I am delighted to be able to announce my partnership with ŠKODA this race season. With their sponsorship of the biggest races in the global cycling calendar such as the […]