Stay True....

"In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth."
Gandhi

Getting ready to go race...

My mate Tom Southam sent me this little snap shot so very Pro.
Plus I like his choice of podium T.
Cheers Tom and Good Luck for the up and coming euro season.

Rapha conquers Kosciuszko

Well my friend Lindy climbed it with her Rapha backpack but you get the picture
Thanks Lindy for the photo

Silhouettes

"Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree."
Faulkner.

Textures

It's all about the feel of things...

Lest We Forget

" What will you do when the war is over,tender comrade
When we lay down our weary guns
When we return home to our wives and families
And look into the eyes of our sons
What will you say of the bond we had,tender comrade
Will you say that we were brave
As the shells fell all around us
Or that we wept and cried for our mothers
And cursed our fathers
For forgetting that all men are brothers "

Tender Comrade
Billy Bragg

Malachi Moxon
Northside Wheelers

If you want it.....

"Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong."
Longfellow

Autumn days...

"The veil of confusion gently falls away, Like the dank mist on a dull autumn day. Revealing the path that lies there before me, To step forward or not, what will it be?."
Gabriella Goddard

On the move....

"I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment."
H.Belloc

1955 Flèche Wallonne

On a pleasant morning alongside the Salm River,breakaways Jean-Marie Cieleska,Richard Van Genechten,and Roger Wuyckstandt ( front to rear ) set a lively pace but they won't make it to the end.

Thoughts...

It's a good time to think when your rolling around on your bicycle

Oh you cannot hear me...

" I'm left to fight my impulses alone here in the dark
The chain that fell off my bike last night
Is now wrapped around my heart
Sometimes I think that
Fate has been against us from the start

I long to let our love run free
Yet here I am a victim of geography
And oh you cannot hear me
Oh you cannot hear me
Can anybody hear me out there

The Only One
Billy Bragg

Enough said...

Sometimes that's all it takes...

"When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking."
Arthur Conan Doyle

Paris-Roubaix

The queen of the classics,so hated and loved.The torture of it's cobblestones is magnified by mud,wind,crashes and of course the Arenberg trench.