Three posts in row which preview 2009: I really do have to write about something else… or do I? Today it’s the new Dura-Ace groups, including their revolutionary electronic shifting. Well, not actually revolutionary: Mavic had something back in the early to mid 90′s, called “Zap” Shifters (if I remember correctly). A friend of mine [...]

The Tour de France route for 2009 has been announced. And here it is. One notable feature about the 2009 tour is that it’s allegedly the first in which there will be a mountain stage on the penultimate day, and it’s the one to Mont Ventoux – so in the same way as this year, [...]

I had it marked in my diary, the date that the Tour de France & Etape routes would be announced. And either I was misinformed, or I made the old “hands like feet” clerical error, but heading off to the appropriate websites this morning, I found I was a bit late. So for those of [...]

So you’ve finished your racing season and (hopefully) you’ve had a bit of an end-of-season break. Hopefully, you’ve also taken the time to have a look at what you did well during the season as well as those things that you could do better in the future. Most of us are very good at being [...]

Well, it’s been a while since I last posted to this blog. As you’ll see, I’ve migrated it from the Joomla site into a far cleaner (and more importantly, easier to use) WordPress Blog. And with any luck, this will mean I’ll post to it more often. What a year 2008 has been to date [...]