“C’est mieux que le bureau!” Indeed… one for the francophones. If you happen to be in Brussels this weekend, here’s something that you could do: Le Festival En Roue Libre 2018. The […]
En Roue Libre 2018: Le Festival Du Voyage A Vélo
Ride: A Fact-Packed Tour Through The World Of Cycling
A package arrived this week from my publishers, Summersdale. See if you can spot something familiar is this video…
Bespoked 2018: The Handmade Bicycle Show
Bespoke features regularly on CyclingEurope.org – see these posts from the past – and it is now in its 8th year. As in most of the previous years, the event takes place […]
Bob Jones: On The Road Again…In Portugal And Spain
Originally posted on Pedalitis:
My last two really big rides were to celebrate my 60th and 65th birthdays, so they were five years apart (O-Level maths, 62%, Fairfield Grammar School, Bristol, 1967).…
An Adult On A Bicycle: I Do Not Despair, But Sometimes I Am Worried
I was recently asked by the Calderdale branch of the Cyclists’ Touring Club, or CTC (or indeed ‘Cycling UK’) to give a speech at their annual prize-giving evening. As I had previously […]
The HandleBards: Cycle Touring, Or Not Cycle Touring?
Well, that is the question… I was telephoned earlier this week by a chap called Jack: ‘Hi, I’m Jack from The Handlebars…‘ he said. I initially struggled to piece together what he […]
Spain To Norway: Lekker Ding!
When it comes to cycling, the Dutch know what they are talking about. The Netherlands has featured often on these pages although as a cyclist, I’ve only ever spent a day and […]
Snow: A CyclingEurope.org Retrospective
I find that by searching for ‘snow’ in the back catalogue of CyclingEurope.org posts, I’m not short of pretty photographs. From Oxfordshire, Yorkshire, Slovakia, France, Switzerland, Norway… There was even a film!
EuroVelo 8: La Méditerranée A Vélo
Cold? This might warm you up… …as might reading this; my 2nd (and favourite) book, Along The Med on a Bike Called Reggie, where I cycled the length of the EuroVelo 8 […]
Not Cycling Yorkshire?
Yorkshire Summer Time starts on Sunday 25th March 2018. OK, so does British Summer Time, but bear with me… It finishes on Saturday 27th October 2018 and lasts for 217 days. The […]
T’Cycle Expo, Yorkshire
I shouldn’t really mock the accent; it is, after all, my own… but this event – the first ever Cycle Expo in Yorkshire – from the 12th to the 14th October is […]
MAMIL: ‘A Documentary Exposé…’
‘…about the secret world of middle-aged men in Lycra.‘ I’m not sure, when I think about it, that I want to find out too much about the ‘secret’ lives of MAMILs, but […]
Spain To Norway… : What The Readers Think
Cycling Europe: Schleswig-Holstein And Denmark
As we probably all know (even if we’ve never had the chance to visit the country), Denmark is a great place to cycle. So is northern Germany, especially the one-time Danish territory […]
The Sheffield Adventure Film Festival
Avid readers of CyclingEurope.org (I’m sure there must be one or two such people out there, no?) may remember this post from last March about my visit to the 2017 Sheffield Adventure […]
Unicycling Europe: Lutz Eichholz
It was, at times, challenging on two wheels for me back in 2015; here’s someone cycling parts of Norway on one…
