Posts by Richard

Stay safe – Don’t buy a FAKE

John Ruskin, the 19th Century social thinker said: “There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper and the people who consider price only are this man’s lawful prey.” My good friends Simon and Janet are keen cyclists, they…

Tour de Yorkshire 2016

The most lucrative event in the women’s cycling calendar. When I sat down to write this article the news was full of stories about the inequalities between men and women in sport. The debate had been fuelled by a comment made by an official from the world of Tennis and…

How Much Should You Spend On A New Bike?

It is a very difficult question to answer and really depends on what you want to do on your bike. A recent “non scientific” survey in the Daily Telegraph compared our best selling men’s road bike, the Specialized Allez (£600), with a £13,000 hand built racing bike. The conclusion was…

The Raleigh Chopper Returns

It was back in 1967 that Raleigh first patented the design for the now iconic Chopper. Even now, some 48 years later, a week hardly passes without a visitor to our shop sharing his or her own Raleigh Chopper memories with me. In fact if I was paid £1 per…

JULY 2015

Last month had an Italian theme for me. I started June on a cycling holiday in Italy and completed it by riding in the Eroica Britannia, the UK event based on the Italian Eroica heritage bike ride. Forget the beach at Benidorm or the ‘All inclusive’ in Cuba- try a…

JUNE 2015

The Start of the 2015 Tour de Yorkshire The second major cycling event pedalled into Yorkshire. Fuelled by the excitement at the start of the Tour de France, last year, my wife and I decided that the start was again the place to be. The fact that the race was…

May 2015

We have certainly had some good weather over the last couple of months, which has brought about many cycling opportunities. In the last few weeks I have finally been able to put some miles in on my summer road bike (yes, cyclists do have summer and winter bikes!), I’ve also…
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