Hosted at Brunel University, this year’s Cyclefit Symposium featured presentations by the world’s leaders in bike fitting, medical and academic speakers plus leading bicycle and frame manufacturers. The event lasted two and a half days, in which time we heard from some really great speakers – some were quite controversial! I’m really sad that I … Continue reading »
I did my first ‘big’ race: the first round of the national team series which was held at Hog Hill. Here is my report copied from the team blog [link] “Good Friday saw the first installment of the Shutt Velo Rapide National Women’s Team Series. Although not a target for Team Mum, we managed to … Continue reading »
Towards the end of February I took a short trip down south to Exeter to stay with Tom and his parents. We visited some of Tom’s favourite coffee haunts in Exeter and Crediton and also dropped in to the university’s high performance sports’ “Bat Cave” to catch up with Tom’s good friend and S+C coach … Continue reading »
Arione Donna ; The lady version of the mens Fizik Arione but with female specific features such as a pressure relief channel and wider seat to ;accommodate ;wider ;sit bones. I put it in the wrong place (as you can see in this picture) and it was very uncomfortable at first, but with several adjustments … Continue reading »
It didn’t take much persuasion for me to enter my first race and I was even more keen when I was offered the opportunity to ride in a Look Mum No Hands! jersey. The race was one of the regular Thursday night crits held at Redbridge Cycle Centre (more commonly referred to as Hog Hill). … Continue reading »
The day after the National Champs, whilst Tom was in Portsmouth for a track session with his coach, Charlotte and Look Mum No Hands! RT had an early morning date in Richmond Park for Round 7 of the London Women’s Cycle Racing League. Despite the 4am start, honey badgers ruled supreme and almost entirely took over the … Continue reading »
Tom has been working at Rapha and CycleFit for a few weeks this summer so we’ve been staying in Herne Hill for the last little while. We arrived just in time for the London Nocturne with an elite men’s criterium, women’s criterium, pennyfarthing racing, folding bike racing and even more bicycle related goodness Stopping by the Rouleur stall, Tom had a chat with … Continue reading »
