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Pivot Mach 5.7 – a quick spin….
I’ve been very aware of the hype surrounding the Mach 5.7 so when The Bike Tree let me know they’d got one I could test, I took off my pinny, switched off the hoover, put Jeremy Kyle on record and headed out sharpish. All the talk in the biking media was of incredibly well sorted suspension, superb build quality, of a […]
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Cotic Rocket
I know how these things are supposed to go. I’m supposed to blind the reader with science, with talk of head angles, chain growth and frame rates leaving all but the geeky one per cent flummoxed and the average rider none the wiser about whether this bike is the best thing since pro-pedal or an […]
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Sheffield Moors Partnership Access and Recreation Focus Group Meeting, June 26
The Sheffield Moors Partnership has brought together all the bodies who manage moorland on the fringes of Sheffield. The National Trust, RSPB, Peak District National Park Authority, Sheffield Wildlife Trust and others have joined forces to see how much they can synchronise their management policies across some of the most popular and important moorland in […]
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Peak district bouldering – Vertebrate Publishing
You know the old adage about not judging a book by its cover? Well, just for once, ignore it. Vertebrate Publishing’s latest book, Peak District Bouldering, has on its cover a striking shot by Dave Parry of Dave Norton on Low Rider at Stanage. It’s a truly original picture, arresting and dynamic and sets the […]
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Risk’s grand arena
Not long after I moved to Sheffield, I discovered a perfect bike ride that took me from my front door onto the moors of the Peak District. Arriving at the highest point of the ride, I stopped to savour the view. To my confusion, I found myself choked with emotion, looking down on the city, […]
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A spring in my step…..
Spring was striving hard to convince me and the missus that it was here to stay yesterday. At one point I had to just stop and listen to a symphony of skylarks, maybe half a dozen of the little show-offs trilling and fluting above the meadows below White Edge. Then Pat spotted a lone swallow, […]
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Faith and Friction
Don’t you just love the Grit? No? Me neither sometimes. It really is a love/hate relationship for me because climbing on the Grit is all about the three C’s, commitment, confidence and cajones and the chances of me demonstrating all three on the same day is remote. Add to that the fact that I’m not […]