Not that there were ever moments when I asked. Wading through bamboo dust to my semi-assembled bits-of-a-not-yet functional bike I never once wondered why I hadn’t gone to Halfords like…
First, choose your bamboo! Held upright in a wooded rack along a wall in the portion of East London warehouse that houses the Bamboo Bicycle Club, is a small forest…
More and more people, buying more and more stuff. Because the production and distribution and packaging of that stuff uses energy and resources, and creates waste, this simple more-people-more-stuff formula…
I wrote this piece for The Adventure Syndicate about riding the Fred Whitton Challenge. It’s also about losing fitness; the truly horrible fear that it’s gone forever; the gnarly challenge of clawing it…
I’m just revising my current favourite definitions of happiness: 1) Lying in a hot bath after a beautiful first day’s ride, listening to a positive weather forecast. 2) Eating pie,…
Really enjoyed this interview with BBC Radio York’s Paul Hudson on their lunchtime weather show : weather, climate change info, chatty interviews and great music, what a brilliant concept! BBC…
Lanzarote, on the horizon for hours as a question mark – cloud or land? – came into focus as an extended sprawl of volcanic hills. A fantastically arid landscape, all…
Anticipation has been building for days now as component parts of Studio Swine’s machine are handed up through the fore-deck hatch for assembly – and then passed back down again…
Yesterday, after the daily trawl for plankton and plastic, we sat in hot sunshine brainstorming. We’ve been heading steadily south east, back into summer, and by late afternoon, the deck…