I took my Giant Bowery, currently singlespeed, up Howth Head Sunday evening. I was a bit concerned with how the Bowery would go on the climb, but I want to get a couple of goes up Howth in before I turn it fixed gear (because I love high speed [...]
Brief update with details from my cycling & camping tour to Loire Valley in August 08
940km total
15 days cycling
63km/day average
~40kg gear on bike
I intended to cycle to Galway last Thursday, the route was the canal towpaths out of town as far as Moyvalley bridge, then along the old N4 to Galway, hopefully getting as far as Ballinasloe, Oranmore or even Galway city. Instead of starting at 6am like I intended, I actually [...]
I had a fantastic weekend in Neuchatel for the annual Rugby Sevens tournament, just a quick note to say thanks to Le Sept Arverne, a bunch of really cool guys who I played with all weekend. Chicken Run!!
[...]Indie Bike asked me for a review of their website or products, so I’ll concentrate the website and what I think they’re doing right and on a couple of key things I think they could improve.
What’s right?
Most of the elements of a successful e-commerce site [...]
I recently wrote about fitness and work life and running a business. I also made a promise over on my search engine marketing blog that during the month of September I’m going to post one blogging tip per day as a “penance” for my lack of posting over [...]
Interesting one for people looking for cycling routes in Dublin – a guy, obviously called Dick O’Brien, has listed about 30 cycling routes from Dublin city centre. They’re listed on RouteSlip.com and include route maps, distance and amount of climbing:
Dick O’Brien’s cycling routesFair play to you for [...]
I had to move Sport Crazy’s hosting recently due to some technical issues. I had seriously customised my previous Wordpress theme for search engine optimisation and as it happens the backup I made of my customised theme is corrupt – d’oh!
So my options are to reinstall the original [...]
Well, wha’did I tell ya? Looks like the TdF winner is unwelcome at a race in Hamburg:
Managing director of the race Frank Bertling said: “Our basic position is that we don’t want to have any riders in the Hamburg race who are on the [...]
After all the scandal of the previous couple of TdF days (who didn’t see the Rasmussen thing coming? Contador next, I tell ya), here’s something to smile about.
He is well in front of the 152 remaining riders (189 set off from London) in the three-week long Tour. In fact, he [...]
This is something strongly in my mind at the moment.
I’m a sports addict, regularly playing rugby (3 times per week during season), sailing (twice weekly in summer) and cycling – mountain biking and cycle touring for holidays.
Starting my internet marketing business has serious impacted [...]
I really was enjoying this year’s TdF, it was delivering really exciting tactical and strategic racing, especially the time trial and the 2 Pyrenees stages so far – brilliant! There’s been so much to enjoy up til now in the [...]
Just saw the news over on BBC that Jan Ulrich, 1997 TdF winner and 5 time runner up, has announced his retirement from cycling.
I think it’s a sad day for cycling, he’s lived under the shadow of Lance and I was looking forward [...]
Woohoo – SportCrazy.net is in the running for “Best Sports & Recreation Blog” at the Irish Blog Awards. Before you do anything else, please vote for me! You don’t have to be Irish to vote.
It takes less than 30 seconds. Here’s how you do it:
Go to www.awards.ie/vote Enter your [...]The repercussions of cycling’s recent scandals have hit the Discovery team where it hurts – the wallet. They’re losing their title sponsor!
NYTimes: Discovery to End Sponsorship of Team
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Not so long ago I’d have told you there’s no way I’d see a [tag]chiropractor[/tag] – that they were untrustworthy [tag]charlatans[/tag] selling the [tag]medical[/tag] equivalent of snake-oil.
Well now I’m getting a chance to find out first-hand! As I mentioned before I’ve had [...]
Despite believing that [tag]Lance Armstrong[/tag] was a drug using cheat, I really enjoyed his first book “It’s not about the bike“. It was a well written, compelling story. Lance is a wonderful example for everyone, not' [...]
Blondie had an idea about posting [tag]rugby[/tag] [tag]results[/tag] that got me thinking about applying [tag]Microformats[/tag] to [tag]sports results[/tag]. She was talking about posting the results in a format like this:
Home Team (score) Visiting Team (score) Date Location Was this a league match or special event/tournament If so, what league/territory/division Notables If [...]
France and America in same headline shocker!
Happy [tag]Martin Luther King[/tag] (Jnr) Day to any Americans reading this! I’m disappointed to see that the Big G didn’t change their logo…
On to [tag]cycling[/tag] – exciting news – the [tag]route[/tag] [...]
Adrian Fitch highlights a refreshingly intelligent article which criticises the urban cyclist for actual wrongs, unlike the steaming pile of manure from Erin Baker last year. It’s great to see a [tag]journalist[/tag] putting even a modicum [...]
At least my home [tag]insurance[/tag] company thinks so – they believe only a [tag]professional[/tag] [tag]cyclist[/tag] would spend 1,600 eur on a [tag]bike[/tag]. They’re refusing to insure it until they get an independent valuation.
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Disclaimer: this post may contain excuses, whining and blatant advertising, along with some of the most beautiful scenery in western Europe.
So I took quite a few [tag]pictures[/tag] down in [tag]Mayo[/tag] over the [tag]Christmas[/tag] but [...]
A current meme amongst cycling bloggers is to post a “B-list” of the bicycle related blogs they regularly read. I’m subscribed to quite a few RSS feeds using Flock (you guys might see my reader on your feed' [...]
On Saturday Nov 25th a cyclist had an [tag]accident[/tag] on the [tag]Naas Road[/tag] – and Kevin has his bike. From the [tag]Cycling Ireland[/tag] post:
At about 1.00pm on Saturday 25 November 2006 on the Naas Road a few hundred yards on the town [...]
This certainly sounds interesting – a 4 day [tag]cycle[/tag] [tag]tour[/tag] of [tag]Ireland[/tag], 200km each day. Come May next year I might be capable of doing this, definitely something to target.
The [tag]Tour of Ireland Cycle Challenge[/tag] is a four day – 800kms [tag]cyclo sportive[/tag], taking in all four provinces of Ireland, [...]
I just did my [tag]Christmas shopping[/tag] – well, most of it anyway. So this is the blog post where I list a load of cool suggestions, and my hundr thousands of readers click on the links and I make [...]
As mentioned previously, the [tag]Dublin Cycling Campaign[/tag] Christmas party took place in Crawdaddy on Harcourt Street last night and I headed along around 7.30 for a look and a [...]
Dublin “Port Tunnel Opening” Bicycle Christmas Party: 6.30pm til later, Monday 11th December, “The Pod”, Harcourt Street Station.
The Dublin Cycling Campaign, the voluntary lobbying organisation “Working to Make Dublin A Bicycle-Friendly City” ([home.connect.ie]), is organising a Christmas Party for Dublin’s cyclists to co-incide with the opening of the Dublin [...]
As I left work this evening I thought it wasn’t raining, but when I got outside I realised that the warm, calm evening I thought I had seen from my window was far from reality.. “away with the fairies” is how we describe fools like me here in Ireland. It [...]
This is a great [tag]cycle lane[/tag] from the UK. Courtesy of velorution:
I can understand Andrea’s point about the [tag]fraud[/tag] and missing money, but nevermind that stuff. Just think Andrea, this is the kind of bullsh!t that [tag]cyclists[/tag] in [...]
