Month: January 2016

Blazing Saddles Is Rising…

I had Reggie serviced after last summer’s Tarifa to Nordkapp cycle at my new local bike shop here in the Calder Valley, Blazing Saddles in Hebden Bridge. Alas, along with many other businesses in the valley towns of Elland, Sowerby Bridge, Mytholmroyd and Hebden Bridge, Blazing Saddles was […]

Henry Worsley

I heard this guy being interviewed on the radio last week and was struck by his quest to walk solo to the South Pole. A tragedy that he has died. When I was in Oslo last year I visited the The Fram Museum, an institution that tells the […]

Cycling… Japan

Thisย caught my eye today. The maker of the video below – a chap called Jacob Laukaitis – emailed me earlier today with the link. For those of you who were paying attention last year, I did mention at some point after having cycled Tarifa to Nordkappย that the next […]

Still ‘Hot’!

It’s good to know that after all this time, Crossing Europe on a Bike Called Reggie and Along The Med on a Bike Called Reggie ย are still ‘hot’ in the eyes of Apple… We are in good company: Bryson, Palin, Beaumont, Kennedy, Orwell, Clarkson… Hopefully The 35 Degrees* […]

Janapar – A Love Story

By Ian Street, Leeds Bicycle Film Club: We are going to kick off 2016 with Janapar an incredible story of adventure, love and enlightenment. Janapar is an award-winning true story, filmed over four years in thirty-two countries by one man on a bicycle. 23-year-old Tom Allen is all […]