This is the second instalment of the Optimising for Speed series; speed is as important now as it was in the first article and it falls to the purpose of this article to address another issue or two that often hold(s) cyclists back from realising their speed potential. This time, I’ll look at gears – both setup and usage. [More]

Well Saturday was a glorious day. The sun was shining, there was no rain, not a cloud in the sky. It actually felt like spring. Sunday, however, was race day. It was zero degrees and bucketing down with rain, and fairly breezy to boot.

Despite this I got up at 6am and made my way to Dorney Lake for my first ever duathlon. [More]

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Suddenly it’s upon me. How does this always happen? I have an idea about entering a race months before it starts, and in a moment of madness I sign up for it. Well it’s now just 4 days away. The weather is set to be cold and raining. Not much I can do about that. But am I prepared? [More]

City cycling may be outside of the everlasting quest for speed that racing cyclists undertake for the duration of their lives, but it's no secret that every cyclist wishes they could go just a little bit faster, cut down that journey time a little, or just enjoy the feeling of velocity.

And the good news? You don't have to be a racer to go fast, and you don't need to tire yourself out to get up the momentum you'd really like. With these few simple tips, you'll easily be going 20% faster without really expending any extra effort. This isn't a workaround in place of stamina and strength, but it'll go a long way to giving you that boost you need. [More]

As any city cyclist knows, safety and visibility are inseparably linked in the context of city cycling, and any way to make yourself more visible is definitely a bright idea. So let’s shed a little light on the subject of visibility, particularly at night, specifically with reference to what is of course a legal requirement for a bicycle – front and rear lighting.

The important advice in relation to lights is ‘always use them’. If the streetlamps are on, your bike lights should be on. You will feel much safer around other road users if you know you are visible to them. This is part of your presence on the road, which increases your safety no end.... [More]

A common problem facing many cyclists today is the issue of how to transport goods, items and property in general by means of a bicycle. As a mode of transport, the bicycle is very often considered primarily and perhaps solely for the purposes of transporting usually one person from place to place; yet being a versatile machine, the bicycle is more than capable of being a load-carrying conveyance as well. [More]

If you haven’t tried wordle.net you should. It’s quite good fun, you paste in a load of text or a url to a web page or blog and it makes some nice word art for you. Here’s what I generated for Daily Cycle… [More]

Well I hate to bring a downer on everyone but I thought it might make sense to talk about what to do when things go badly wrong for a cyclist. I refer of course to 'falling off' and 'being hit by a car' – both of which are well within my areas of expertise! I'll be brief, but hopefully the stuff I talk about here will be useful enough in preventing accidents or – if the worst comes to the worst – minimising the impact... as it were. [More]

I am a cyclist is a section filled out by you guys. You tell the world about your life so far as a cyclist – why you do it, why you love it and so on. First in line is Sue Booth… [More]