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TRIBUTE TO FALLEN RIDER
MANY TIMES, we as cyclists take it for granted that whenever we jump on our bikes, we will always make it back home. The truth is, it is always a 50/50 chance, and yesterday’s tragedy was proof. The world and cycling community at large lost a young, talented racer after he crashed at the Tour…
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BIKIATRIST
YOU HAVE PROBABLY heard the saying “behind every man there is a woman”. Similarly, at least in the cycling world, it is well known that behind every big name (such as Chris Froome or Tom Domoulin), there is an even larger team. I’m speaking about the domestiques, bike mechanics, directeur sportifs, soigneurs, etc. But there…
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A QUITTER’S BANE
THE ONLY WAY to get to the top of a climb is to keep moving…literally. The legs must keep pedalling, making those pedal revolutions if you want to get there. Cycling is the one sport where uphills in life are vivid and real! Oh, and also very practical. Unless you live in a really flat…
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HAUNTED
NO MATTER how far I go, it is still there; staring me down like a sentinel sent by the Fates to pin me down. It is always there, at the back of mind, waiting for the slightest opportunity to rear its damn, horned head. It is easily awoken by the tiniest of sounds, and its…
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FOR AS LONG AS WE BOTH SHALL LIVE
HILL O HILL, why so cruel? Was it because I said that I like to climb you that you decided that I should up my game? All I ever wanted was to get to the top before everyone else, and yet despite my broadcasted love for you, you keep playing hard to get. You viciously…
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ALL FOR YOU!
I DON’T KNOW about you, but I think that as much as cyclists love their bikes and all, they do also have that one person they cherish above all else. That is the person who most likely than not motivates them to get on the bike and endure all the pain that comes with it.…
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GRVC PACKING LIST, THE LAST ONE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT!
TRAVELLING TIME is here! You are already probably wondering what to and not to carry. Either that, or you are one classic Kenyan who grabs things last minute hoping that you’ve got everything🤣. Wakenya forever. Anyway, depending on the category you find yourself in, at least make sure you have these: BIKE I mean, how…
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BEWARE OF INFECTIOUS DRUG!
THE PUBLIC and cyclists at large have been asked to be on the lookout for a drug known as “Antibikotics” /anti-baikotics/. “The drug,” says Doctor Msomajidawa, “has the potential of causing permanent mental incapacity to the consumer…. It can be transmitted by word of mouth and by deeds.” Although not an authorised over-the-counter drug, it…
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CONVICTED!
YESTERDAY, Rumbi Jungle, 16, was sentensed to life imprisonment at Fullo’bikes Maximum Prison. “The accused,” read Honourable Justice Antibiker, “has the potential of a cyclist. The purpose of the law is to protect both the society at large and the law breakers. Having found him guilty of mass conspiracy, I have no choice but to…
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TRUE?
HAVE YOU ever done something so monotonous that you started talking to yourself? Like literally having a full-on conversation in your head about one thing or other? That was my experience last year during the last 20km of the Great Rift Valley Challenge (GRVC). I could swear that even climbing Kathiani both ways during the…
WHO'S WORLD OF FANTASY WILL YOU DIVE INTO NEXT? 