The retirement of Pikelet- a trubute

Now before you all panic, I’m not getting rid of my pink bike.  I’m just getting a new frame in the same pink. So Pikelet came into the world in September 2012 when i decided I was ready to get ‘serious’ about this whole riding thing.  Before Pikelet I was riding an old Kerry Hopkins Steel frame.…

Sprinting is a cult

We are a mis-understood bunch. We have a reputation for eating and being lazy. If you blink, the effort is over and we are back, half cooked, changing gears for the third time, when the enduros have hardly warmed up. Sprinters, especially track sprinters are seen as the boofheads of the sport. Fast on the…

Welcome

So i’ve finally got around to putting words onto paper (or atleast into a blog) 2014 was a crazy year with training, racing, life decisions… the usual.  And 2015 is starting to become a very exciting year. In this blog I hope to capture the day to day life of a not-quite-fast enough sprinter trying…