If you live for coffee, tea, hot chocolate, chai – or any kind of hot drink, you’ll be interested in the Camelbak Forge. The 350mL insulated cup weighs 294 grams, stands 190mm high and fits neatly in a bottle cage (sort of), the side of your bag, your hand, or your car’s bottle holder. Numbers […]
Reviewed: Optimus Crux Lite with Terra Solo Cook System
Next to riding mountain bikes, drinking coffee is easily the most enjoyable part of my life. Ok, so beer may come in at equal second, but that holy trinity of pleasures is (for me) the great perpetual engine of life that keeps the globe turning in the right direction. Particularly when deadline is approaching. Coffee […]
Five things every cyclist needs to ride a new city
I feel like I went to sleep and woke up with a new life. There was no magic, though – just a lot of hard work by loved ones. I got sick. One day I was living in Brisbane, the next, Sydney. I grew up in Sydney and left a few years after I started cycling, […]
Dirty Gran Fondo 2014 – looking after your Mum
The successful Gran Fondo format is well known in cycling circles. The semi-competitve road ‘races’ are popular through many parts of Europe, in the UK under the guise of a ‘sportive’ and of course in the US, where some people feel they are serious enough to warrant performance enhancing supplements. The numbers of people drawn […]