The first Scarletfire webinar, featuring Ben from Veloviewer, was a great success. If you missed it, I've made the recording available. Hurrah! … [Read more...]
Slow-mo Video: Tour of Britain Stage 1 (@Sprint stage 2, Pentre Llanrhaeadr)
It's not every day that a major bike race passes within a mile of your house, so how could I not pop down to the main road to see the boys fly past? Armed with my trusty camcorder with a slo-mo function, down I went... … [Read more...]
Video: First bike ride with my wife, around Llyn Brenig.
A short video of Catherine's first ride on her new road bike. … [Read more...]
Left your GPS recording in the car? Here’s how to crop/edit the ride.
We've all done it. And if you haven't, you will sooner or later. What are we talking about? Forgetting to turn off your GPS and then getting in a car, making you appear super human when you upload the file later. Here's the fix. … [Read more...]
Awesome tips for making the most boring bike videos ever.
With the growing number of GoPro and other sports cameras on the market these days, YouTube now hosts thousands of videos from riders eager to share their experience with the world. So why are most of them so goddamn boring? … [Read more...]
Wild Wales Challenge 2013 – The movie
The Wild Wales Challenge has become my favourite event of the cycling calendar. Maybe it's because they got the name right. It's in Wales, bits of it are really wild, and there's no doubting that with all those hills, it is very challenging. … [Read more...]
Cheshire Cat 2013 – The movie
Back in March, the Cheshire Cat was postponed because of imminent heavy snow. It was a wise move, for the weather was the most severe for many years and riding up Mow Cop for example, would have been an impossibility. Fortunately, the new date fell on July 7th and we were delighted to have glorious sunshine for the event. … [Read more...]
Mow Cop Mario
I should know better, but I couldn't resist this little bit of daftness. … [Read more...]
Dimitri finds out about using digital epo on Strava
Memes, you know, they're those amusing (or irritating!) trends that somehow captivate the attention of the Internet and end up spawning endless recycled variations on the theme. … [Read more...]
Out of the comfort zone
According to Wikipedia, the comfort zone is a "behavioural state within which a person operates in an anxiety-neutral condition, using a limited set of behaviours to deliver a steady level of performance, usually without a sense of risk". We all have comfort zones in relation to most areas of our lives. Self applied limits as to how far we'll allow ourselves to go. The tendency … [Read more...]
