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    • Youth Cycle Racing

      Youth Cycle Racing

      If you want to get your kids to eat their greens, then enter them in a bike race. The Commissaire stood with his starting pistol in the air, “The race will start within the next 15 seconds”, he shouted to the riders who sat on their bikes with a look of absolute concentration on their……


    • Castelli Fusione Windstopper Jacket

      Castelli Fusione Windstopper Jacket

      Castelli Fusione Windstopper Jacket Let the Castelli Scorpion take the sting out of your winter ride I have a certain nostalgic tendency towards cycling and my preference is always for Italian. It’s not just a romantic notion though, as the Italians have a passion not just to produce the best, but to do it in……


    • Improve your pedalling

      Improve your pedalling

      Get more out of your cycling by creating a more efficient pedal stroke. You’ve spent a lot of money on your bike and invested countless hours in all weathers to get fitter and faster on your bike, but if your pedal technique is inefficient, then you are expending a lot more energy and effort than you need to….…


    • The biley-up and drum-up

      The biley-up and drum-up

      Scot Tares tells us of the “old-days” when a cup of tea was enough to let you cycle 280 miles in one day. There used to be a time when the “biley-up” was a key part of cycling club tradition. The impromptu stop to brew up a pot of water for a cup of tea……


    • Cycling Clubs

      Cycling Clubs

      Scot Tares finds cycling can be fun if you club together. Last week I was sent a couple of photographs from a Courier reader who cycled with my Dad in the 1950s in the now defunct Charles Star CC. The two photos, one of a club ride up to Reekie Linn and the other a……