GolfChick Rides Bikes

Let me first say that the fabric cageless water bottle on test here is the 750ml version, so my opinion is purely based on the performance of that particular bottle. I have some reservations that perhaps if I was reviewing the 600ml version my findings would be slightly different, however, as always I can only report on what I've found! Picture the scene, you're 14 miles into your ride and you've just reached the end of a techy downhill/traversing section and you reach down for a much needed drink and..... no bottle. At some point in the last 3 or 4 miles my water bottle has yet again fallen off! Last time this happened I ended up riding back up the downhills to retrace my wheels and it was a 3 mile detour back up hill but on this occasion it's not possible. This was the situation I was faced with on Sunday during my 29 mile MTB ride. I ended up using a fireroad to trace my wheels back up the section I'd just ridden but no joy. I then ended up meeting up with a fr...

The more time I spend on my road bike, the more I love it! That also means the more effort I have to put in to balance all my bikes out. It can be very tempting to plan activities for one bike and completely forget the others. I've been nudging my way closer to a 100 miler each year, last year I managed a 70 odd miler and even an 80 miler but I was having some real niggles at the time and the 80 mile ride was excruciating. I've now had a bike-fit done and I'm a lot more comfortable on the bike, to the point where I'm completely pain free and the miles simple trickle past in happiness. My fitness this year has been better than ever across all my bikes so I decided it was time to finally break my 100 mile cherry and why not do it in style and enter a sportive in the meantime! I wasn't feeling confident enough to do it alone so again it was Buly to the rescue and he agreed to ride the sportive with me. I'd been recommended the Tour of the Black Country and despit...

So I was lucky enough to travel to Whistler at the end of September for two weeks, to cut a long story short my best friend 'Buly' was planning to go and rather than go alone he invited me! It's not somewhere I'd ever really planned to go despite it being a mecca for biking, probably because I knew it was out of my reach to ever go and why hope/plan for the impossible!? I've done Les Arcs before in the French Alps but that was some years ago and I just remember concentrating on braking the whole time but I was fairly new to biking back then and I'm sure it'd be a different beast now! I'd of loved to do some other trips in the meantime but due to some circumstances, owning a dog mostly, I've not done another trip...until now! Hopefully this blog post will fill people in about some of the mistakes I made, as well as things I learnt along the way and also providing a general review of Whistler! I don't want to come across as knowing everything o...