by OB-admin | Sep 9, 2021 | Blog
Redundancy Dividend9th September 2021 I am now a full time artist, I have pinned on my race number, and I’m looking down the road ahead. I took voluntary severance in June 2021 and now I am fronting a new idea of myself. As a late-life professional I am planning my...
by OB-admin | Feb 9, 2020 | Blog
Dust Cap Ban9th February 2020 Bike Works in Edinburgh can get through 100 inner tubes in a week. Multiply this up across Scotland and that’s thousands and thousands. And that’s thousands and thousands of useless plastic dust caps, no one needs them, no one wants them,...
by OB-admin | Jan 8, 2020 | Blog
Bike Angels – lifting bikes up8th January 2020 Are you a Bike Angel? Lifting bikes up when those around us fail? Ready with a cross head driver for a poorly indexed derailleur. Joining forces at advance stop lines for temporary union against the exhausts. Its quite...
by OB-admin | Nov 24, 2019 | Blog
Sagan’s Mudguard Tattoos24th November 2019 Cycle road racing is so beguiling because it dramatises the theme of all our lives. The conflict between the ego and our social responsibilty. The best stage races revel in this theatrical double hander. The selfless giving...
by OB-admin | Nov 17, 2019 | Blog
Baboon by Paulhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/vegaseddie/3339507278 Baboon Saddle17th November 2019 My old saddle looks like a Baboon and it’s bugged me for nearly twenty years. Not a baboon’s red butt that would be truly disgusting and on the UCI list of banned parts....
by OB-admin | Jun 28, 2019 | Blog
Heart Branded Cycle Parking28th June 2019 It’s brilliant – red bike lanes, instant bike hire, the 20mph speed limit, the cycle super highway, Chris Hoy velodrome, Sustrans route one, Bradley Wiggins socks, car free city centres and rechargeable LED lights,...
