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The healing power of a simple bike ride
A ride to quiet the mind was the best gift I could have given myself.
10 products I loved in 2021: Iain Treloar
From music to mudguards, gravel tyres to $10 racks, these are the things that stuck with me this year.
Sometimes you just need to go for a really long bike ride
In her latest column, Gracie Elvin shares the story of her longest ride ever - one that offered some much needed perspective.
What to do with the post-Olympic Blues
In her latest column, Gracie Elvin writes about the hit that mental health can take in the wake of a big event.
I always forget to ride when I need it the most
You know in those old-timey movies where there’s a barrel of gunpowder and the fuse?
Rupert Guinness is riding 4,900 km in 12 days for mental health awareness
The veteran cycling journo is on the road now and making his way south.
Cycling almost destroyed Jani Brajkovic. Now he wants to help fix it
I have known Jani Brajkovic personally for just over a year now. We got in contact on social media and chatted about cycling in Slovenia,...
A balancing act, a wallaby, and a ride into the light
There’s a wedge of bush – a kind of island in suburbia – running over a freeway tunnel near my house, crowded with dense scrub and cut by...
Nine Mountains - The journey of two cyclists
The journey of two cyclists (Leo Russell & George Stagg) on a mission to climb the 9 most challenging and notorious mountains in Europe. ...
The life and death of a bike pump
It wasn’t a very good floor pump. It didn’t cost much, didn’t have Bluetooth and didn’t have a digital gauge; it just put air into tubes,...
Olympic MTB champ Jenny Rissveds breaks contract to address mental health
Reigning Olympic mountain-bike champion Jenny Rissveds and her Scott-SRAM team — the only pro team she's ever known — have agreed to part...
How to mentally recover after a bike crash
During the women’s road race at the Rio Olympic Games in August, we all watch in horror as Dutch rider Annemiek van Vleuten crashed hard,...
How to beat the dreaded post race blues
Recently I completed the Falls Creek Peaks Challenge after a mammoth eight-month build-up. There was a lot of hard work that went into my...
Riding to recovery: what it took to fall in love again
When German powerhouse Ina-Yoko Teutenberg retired from professional cycling in 2014, she left the sport as one of the most respected rid...