Healthy Living

Simon Usborne: Cycle Show (porn, basically)

[caption id="attachment_5090" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="ooh, nice ring (and rims). Copyright: Road.cc"][/caption] No time this year to get to the Cycle Show in London nor even to write ve ...

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Tim Walker: Cyclists vs Cabbies

Wednesday, 6 October 2010

Many's the time I've considered reporting a taxi driver for attempted murder during my commute, so I can't imagine this story from yesterday's Evening Standard will surprise many London cyclists. Cut ...

Harriet Walker: Cycle Chic: What to wear when the weather turns nasty

Thursday, 30 September 2010

Having been won over by the bike evangelists at the beginning of the summer, I’ve been cycling (and surviving) for over three months now, and with only one fall. I’m don’t claim to have scaled the hei ...

Simon Usborne: Jure Robic, world's toughest, craziest athlete dies

Tuesday, 28 September 2010

[caption id="attachment_4717" align="alignleft" width="201" caption="Jure Robic after winning the 2007 Ride Across America"][/caption] Sad news over the weekend of the death of an insane man you proba ...

Cambridge to Ely: Not a hill in sight – that's what I call cycling

Sunday, 19 September 2010

Joanne O'Connor gets pedalling along The Lodes Way, the National Trust's new cross-country route between Cambridge and Ely

Simon Usborne: Boris Bikes dressed for London Fashion Week

Friday, 17 September 2010

London Fashion Week starts today, so there wouldn't appear to be much of a reason to post on the bike blog. Cycling, after all, is a fashion disaster area, isn't it? Nooo! Well, it can be, as you'll h ...

Simon Usborne: Rapha + Paul Smith: On the boards

Thursday, 16 September 2010

I spent a delightful hour in the office of fashion designer and cycle nut, Sir Paul Smith, a couple of weeks ago. He revealed how a pair of sunglasses dashed his teenage dreams of becoming a pro ride ...

Martin King: Fit To Drop 8: A glacier vs the slippery slope of indulgence

Tuesday, 14 September 2010

?? [caption id="attachment_4243" align="alignright" width="290" caption="The graphic can't lie. Way over the usual calorie consumption, but even further over the activity line."][/caption] Life's ...

Catherine: Anorexia - The Everlasting Illness?

Friday, 10 September 2010

Treatable? Yes. Curable? God only knows. Here lies perhaps the most stark contrast between physical illness and mental illness, especially in terms of how much hope we can place on being better, on be ...

Chris Geiger: Health Diary: Cancer in common

Tuesday, 7 September 2010

I made an amazing discovery this week. I think Michael Douglas and I may have been twin brothers in a previous life, as we have too much in common for it to be a coincidence. Admittedly I’m not an A ...

Simon Usborne: Etape du Tour: It's not about the bike

Saturday, 28 August 2010

I devoted my column in today’s Magazine to Nick Dodds, an inspirational rider I met at last month’s Etape du Tour where, as I reported on this blog, I rather overdid it and had to vomit before I could finish the gruelling, 112 assault on the Pyrenees.

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