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    Cycling musings and stories from a life on two wheels

    • Winter cycling adventures are a tonic for your mind and soul

      Winter cycling adventures are a tonic for your mind and soul

      Everywhere you go, you always take the weather with you As a kid growing up in the 1970s and 80s, I always felt different to my peers. Perhaps they all felt the same, but no one was brave enough to admit it. So everyone just went with the flow. We played football in the park,……


    • Get out and ride

      Sometimes it is easy to sit back and excuse ourselves from doing something because it is too difficult, or too painful. But sometimes all we need to do is push a little bit harder and we may just find ourselves a little farther up that hill than we might have expected.


    • Cycling Ben Lawers

      Cycling Ben Lawers

      Wherever he cycles in the world, Scot Tares finds that Scotland is hard to beat.


    • The end of the road

      The end of the road

      The Butt of Lewis is quite literally the end of the road on the Hebridean Way.


    • A kiss with my red, red rose

      A kiss with my red, red rose

      Kirsteen is the reason Skinny Tyres is where it is today. She has supported me with every pedal stroke of the journey.