Tour de France 2012 The 2012 TdF is a clockwise affair this year, starting in Liege (Belgium), twisting around northern France and the Alps before heading westward to the Pyrenees towards the end of this most arduous of Grand Tours. For a ... (more)
Unseasonably warm weather again greeted us at Mistley, although this time the ground was much more moist and tree roots were exposed. A strong, blustery wind was blowing and caused problems with the equipment at the finish line and with tape ... (more)
A lot of rain during the week had made conditions very slippery and muddy in the Furze Hill woods at Mistley, Essex. The mud didn't tend to 'stick' much, but there were lots of grip issues both on the descents and on the numerous climbs. ... (more)
The sixth round of the Eastern Region cyclocross league took place at Hillyfields, on the west side of Colchester in Essex. The ground was firm, but muddy in places, and the numerous technical sections caused problems for the less experience ... (more)
The penultimate round (#13) of the Eastern Cross league was fabulously sunny - but very windy! The large amounts of tape used for the brand new cyclocross course at the Horse Welfare Centre in Snetterton, creating a lot of work for riders ... (more)
Be warned, if you purchase Whois Privacy (or domain privacy) from 123-Reg: they do not enable privacy automatically, so you need to go into the Whois Privacy section in your control panel and enable it there. I thought it was enabled when ... (more)
Here is a video of the Great Yarmouth Cycling Club Track Champs, 2012: (more)
I was fortunate enough to attend the PHP UK Conference 2012, on Friday 24 February. The theme of the conference was about how well PHP scales; watch the two keynote speeches by Rasmus Lerdorf (PHP founder) and Hugh Williams (eBay's Engineering ... (more)
Things are about to change when you make electronic payments. These changes affect all sterling and foreign electronic payments within the UK, EU and the EEA (European Economic Area), with the objective of processing them more quickly. ... (more)
A rainy week guaranteed muddy conditions for the Eastern League Cyclocross Round 11 at Redgrave (near Diss) in Suffolk. Earlier riders had less muck to contend with, but by the last race the rain had started and parts of the course were becoming ... (more)
To help you organise your weekends over the autumn and winter months, I've put together a map of the cyclo-cross events in the UK's Eastern region: View Eastern Cross 2012-13 in a larger map You can also view details for each event ... (more)