1) Have a cup of tea. It was this day in 1660 that Samuel Pepys drank his first cup of tea, after reading that tea made the body “active and lusty.”


2) Try and think about how we can make the UK XC riders go faster. Is it a matter that they just need to pedal faster? Get fitter? Withstand more pain? Learn how to ride technical terrain? Have better bikes? Practice on banked wooden tracks?

Discuss it with me in the forum



3) Imagine what your world would have been like without Sturmey Archer. Because it’s looking horribly like the UK internal-hub-gear people are going to die. Shame….