I have just seen the new short film that Nick Livesy has produced for well-groomed cycling barons, Rapha. The film is an evocative but gritty take on the personal sacrifices of Johan Museeuw, twists, turns and history of one of the cycling calendar’s toughest races, the Paris Roubaix. Ridley Scott Associates have clearly had a [...]

The last week has been a blurry smudge of nervous excitement, apprehension and anxiety for me. A few weeks back I got a new job and since then I’ve been edging obliviously towards my last day with my current employers whom I’ve worked for over three years. A lot has happened during that time (not [...]

A couple of years ago I was given an umbrella for my birthday by my good lady. Without being brashly materialistic, it was probably the one of the finest things I have ever owned. It was  termed as being ‘walking length’ – perfect for leaning  upon in a dandy Dorian Gray style . The grip [...]

In the souless world of unforgiving Carbon-fibre, sweaty plastic and general factory-made uniformity, cyclists don’t have much to feed on when it comes to cycling shoes. The design of modern cycling shoes is fairly standardised and unless you’re willing to sell a kidney, you’re probably not going to get anything radically different. But what of [...]

Just a short post here, but I thought it was worth while. I was trawling through some flickr links this morning and I randomly came across some sets from flickr user ‘Least Wanted‘. There’s a whole jumble of interesting images in there, (most of them scanned in from other material), but what appealed to me [...]

With Wimbledon on full knacker at the moment, I thought it would be nice to bin the clammy media sweatband that girdles Tennis today and leap back to the glamour years. For me, there is only one brand in tennis that has managed to succeed in blurring the corners of both game functionality and ‘off-the-court’ [...]

Palmer: The fellow whose job I’m taking, will he show me the ropes? Major Dalby: Maybe – if you’re in touch with the spirit world. Palmer: I beg your pardon? Major Dalby: He was shot this morning. The Ipcress file is nothing short of genius. First written as an edgy spy novel by Len Deighton [...]

Gerald Mills and Charles Boon set up the Mills & Boon empire way back in 1908. At first, they pushed the work of established authors like P.G Wodehouse, but by the mid 1920′s they came to realise that their sales of ‘light fiction’ were rocketing. It’s a good thing too that they turned their hand [...]