Road racing skills for women and girls. More information at britishcycling.org.uk. (more)
Road racing skills for women and girls. More information at britishcycling.org.uk. (more)
Road racing skills for women and girls. More information at britishcycling.org.uk. (more)
Emergency First Aid All companies need to have one or more people trained in Emergency first aid at work. Volunteering to be a first-aider means that you can gain valuable skills which might just save a life. (more)
Audax: the home of long-distance cycling If you love recreational cycling, and enjoy the prospect of an all-day ride, then the audax may be just what you need. Audax technically means "daring" or "courage", but you usually won't need either ... (more)
Some Background Information Swinny.net is a family-run web site. It is engineered, written and edited by Julii and John Swindells. We run advertising on certain sections of the site. To find out more about what this means to you, please ... (more)
The iPhone and other Smartphones Do you own a phone that doesn't do much (except make calls), but would find sat-nav (GPS), social networking and email capabilities useful? If so then you should seriously consider getting an iPhone. Not necessarily ... (more)
Our Rat Family We now have some different furry creatures: Rats. They're extremely sociable with their own distinct personalities. They both like chewing bits of the house though. Their names are Billy and Monty, and they're a pair of female ... (more)
Cycling I cover many aspects of cycling as a means of travel, including towing children about. Various aspects of recreational, commuter and competitive cycling are covered. There are Tandem bike reviews, child trailer reviews, cyclo-cross ... (more)
Energy We're a bit on the ecofreak side (okay, being honest, we're A LOT on the eco-freak side). And energy usage is a big part of human impacts on the planet. So thinking global but acting micro-local, we spend a lot of time thinking about ... (more)
Cyclocross Cyclo-cross is the less well known of the cycling disciplines, maybe because it doesn't qualify for either the winter or summer Olympics calendars. It really is a mixed bag! Having said that, the sport is in rapid growth, at ... (more)