The Baum
Australia’s Baum Cycles designs and builds some of the most beautiful bikes on the planet. Their latest custom offering, a Graphite Corretto, is a must see. Elegant and refined, this black stunner is the bike I want to roll riderless behind my funeral cortège when I’ve finally unclipped for good.

If it were mine, I’d [...]

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I’ve played golf far longer than I’ve cycled… almost thirty-five years in pursuit of the elusive magic of the game. Few might agree but golf and cycling have a great deal in common. At their core both sports are solitary conversations with ourselves, revealing with brutal clarity our true character. Courage, integrity, commitment are [...]

There is light at the end of the tunnel and hopefully today it’s shining brightly into the eyes of Riccardo Riccò in a police station somewhere in France. Fool.

I’m starting to believe it’s time for race organizers to add intelligence testing to the doping controls administered during races. And after yesterday morning’s commute there’s at [...]

It was a nice surprise to find out that one of my photographs won a prize in Rock Racing’s Flickr Photo Contest. The image of Oscar Sevilla was taken on the HC ascent of Mt. Hamilton during Stage 3 of this year’s Tour of California.

Provocatively Sevilla, Tyler Hamilton and Santiago Botero were out training [...]

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Friday I spent the day behind the scenes at San Jose Trek photographing another meticulous bike build. This time it was owner Bill Ruffner putting together a beautiful 54cm 2008 Madone 5.2 for San Jose Trek’s inventory manager and race team member, Kelly. While I got set up with the [...]

Middle of the year and time to update the Top 10 Kit List. Rapha continues to dominate with seven of the ten positions; no surprise there. The Gilet, the rouleur of Rapha’s product lineup, is on the front of this breakaway doing the leadout for big guns like the Light Weight Jersey and Classic Softshell [...]

Strip away all the fancy layers we wrap ourselves in to get on our bikes, and what are you left with but the basics. Enter Rapha’s supremely comfortable 2008 Bibs and silky-soft merino Base Layer. OK, nobody said the basics couldn’t be fancy.

In 2007 I bought my first pair of Rapha bibs and loved the [...]

Australia’s Knog is probably best known for their tiny Frog LED lights; clever loops of silicon that wrap themselves around handlebars, seatstays, chainstays and in my case, the light loops of my Rapha Fixed Backpack.

Of course, Knog has a lot more to offer: powerful lights, urban bags, laptop bags and the subject of this [...]