One of the best, most memorable (and repeated) lines from the movie In Bruges is "it's a shithole". Of course…
If the only kind of wind they have in Belgium is a headwind, then the only kind of flats they have…
Europe is full of history, ancient buildings filled with original masterpieces of art that you can spend days discovering. Looking…
[rule number=3/] With The Rules being officially published in three languages (English English, American English, and soon Dutch) and now also…
I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. -Vincent Van Gogh Poor old Vinnie may have been Dutch,…
Cyclists need the carrot and the stick. It's all we understand. Do you want to perform well or not be…
Northern Europe is supposed to have crap weather in the Spring. By crap, of course, I mean wet. I call…
Live music is better than recorded music. It's a given. Having that connection, where you're sharing the same space as the…
It's not difficult to understand that climate change, global warming, call it what you will, is real. If you're still…
I'm struggling with how to open this conversation without sounding like what I'm assuming my grandparents did when I was…
The cobbles are not for everyone. Peter van Petegem said it best, that you have to really love the stones…
We want to look like Pros, sure, but what we're really after is feeling Pro. All the aesthetics are just a…
I've lost a lot of things that were, at some point or another, dear to me. At times, I've even…
Happy living in our stressful lives is all about organization. For instance, I like to sort the tasks first by priority…
It wasn't so long ago that the majority of bicycles were made by hand, from raw materials, in places that…
The home ground of Manchester United Football Club, Old Trafford, is colloquially known around the world as the Theatre of…
There are many revered places in Cycling, places that are instantly recognisable, places that command their own special page in…
I hadn't planned to ride them every day. In fact, I had planned to only ride them once and let…
During last year's Keepers Tour, the motor was fine for about two or three days until it suddenly sputtered and…
I've been lucky enough to do quite a bit of travelling in my life. As a family, we travelled all…