Black Dog Bicycling

No doubt Blake had a less literal interpretation in mind but mountains as a challenge for which to rise was foremost in mine as I departed ...

The moment I had been waiting for had arrived. With frame and forks safely arrived that morning my new favourite Swiss bike mechanics set ...

While waiting for my new bicycle frame to arrive in Switzerland I busied myself getting to know Zurich. Walking her busy streets occupied ...

"I look upon Switzerland as a sort of inferior Scotland" - Sydney Smith, an English wit from Woodford. (Rare breed indeed) ...

This provocative notion from Goethe, combined with an accident while cycling, led me to ask:  Does the nature of risk elude us...

I pulled over just outside St Gallen on an overcast morning on the 24th of June to give the bike some much needed post rain TLC. Rubbing dow...