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Spring Classics: Leave Them All Behind by Ride

Posted on 10 February 2010 by Alex Murray

Keeping with my teenaged years of the early 1990s, Ride’s Leave Them All Behind is one of those songs that fits with cycling both lyrically and musically. It’s one of the pinnacles of Shoegazer pop for me, from a time … Continue reading →

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One hell of a day at Highclere

Posted on 11 June 2007 by Alex Murray

Yesterday was the Highclere sportif, one of the events I had set myself as a fitness test before the Etape Du Tour. Yesterday was also about as much pain as I have endured on a bike since the last Etape. … Continue reading →

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Merckx Racing: first impressions

Posted on 6 February 2007 by Alex Murray

Whippy is perhaps my first thought on describing the new bike. Not in the sense of flailing all over the place but in the sense of responsive to the touch and manoeuvrable. Light is the next thing thing that springs … Continue reading →

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