Recent content by paulroth

Canyon Ultimate I have a Canyon Ultimate CF 7.0 - bought nearly 3 years ago via the Net - and am delighted with this bike. I too, was nervous about buying unseen via the Internet but has proved to be excellent equipment, superb quality of frame and components and a bargain at the price. Am a...

I used to live in the Northern suburbs of Madrid (Alcobendas) and can recommend that you ride out to the Sierra Mountains to the North where there are a number of cols of around 1850 metres, only 55 kms outside of Madrid. I have posted a couple of routes on bikely - see example below. This...

For me, the best cycling commentators are on Eurosport France with Patrick Chasse providing the 'Play-by-Play' (as those horrible Amercan networks say of sports "announcers"), together with former riders Richard Virenque and Jacky Durand for the insights into the tactics and the peleton...