Cycling Fun Archives

How to Make the Most of the Tour in Unexpected Ways

July 21, 2025 at 1:23 pm4 min reading

Socialising and Culture

It’s that magical time of year again. Lycra becomes leisurewear. Sleep schedules bend around French time zones. And suddenly, you’re emotionally invested in a 19-year-old domestique who just bridged to the breakaway for the first time.
What Cyclists Really Learn From Watching the Tour (Besides How to Buy More Stuff)

July 16, 2025 at 1:53 pm2 min reading

Road cycling

The Tour de France is the pinnacle of cycling. The tactics, the suffering, the beautiful landscapes… and let’s be honest, the shopping inspiration. Because while your cyclist partner claims they’re watching for “race strategy,” what they’re really learning is how to justify spending half a…
How to Channel Pro Vibes on Your Summer Ride

July 11, 2025 at 6:00 am4 min reading

Health & Training

The Tour de France is underway, and as always, it is proving to be more than just a race. It’s a rhythm. A mood. A three-week immersion in glory, heartbreak, power data, helicopter shots, and perfectly timed solo breakaways. For many of us, July is…
Opinion: 9 Unspoken MTB Rules You Should Break

July 3, 2025 at 6:20 am4 min reading

Outdoor/Mountain

Rules are meant to be broken. Especially when they’re unspoken, impossible to enforce, and no one’s really watching except a confused hiker and an obnoxiously judgemental fly trying to land in your eyes.
The Cyclist’s Guide to Dating: Is It Love or Just Someone Who Can Hold Your Wheel?

June 18, 2025 at 3:41 pm2 min reading

Socialising and Culture

Dating as a cyclist isn’t just a matter of heart—it’s a matter of cadence. Is your partner really the one, or just the one who always remembers to bring a spare CO2 cartridge? Let’s shift gears and examine the signs.
Unreliable Weather Forecasts: 100% Dry? Hold My Raincoat

June 13, 2025 at 3:53 pm2 min reading

Explore & Travel

You wake up to birdsong and sunshine pouring through the blinds. Your weather app beams at you—“0% chance of rain.” Glorious. You pull on your fresh white bibs, skip the fenders, and slap on sunglasses so bright they could power a solar farm.
The Headwind Paradox: Einstein’s Forgotten Theory

June 12, 2025 at 7:08 am3 min reading

Socialising and Culture

Long before he fiddled with time and space, Albert Einstein was a cyclist. Yes, that Einstein. Legend has it he even dreamed up the theory of relativity while cruising on a bike (probably while being chased by a headwind uphill). But what the textbooks don’t…
If Cyclists Designed Cities: Why Roundabouts Would Be Velodromes and Public Transport Would Be Tandems

June 10, 2025 at 9:11 am3 min reading

Socialising and Culture

Urban planning is serious business. Unless, of course, you hand it over to cyclists—then it becomes a deliciously deranged blend of spandex, sprockets, and suspiciously clean carbs. Here’s what your average city might look like if the people who think a great Sunday includes 3,000…
7 Ways to Pretend You Didn’t Get Dropped

June 3, 2025 at 8:55 am4 min reading

Socialising and Culture

Some cyclists manage power. Others manage nutrition. But the truly elite manage dignity. When you’ve been chewed up by the peloton and spat out into the unforgiving solo realm, your only option is to salvage what’s left of your self-respect. In nature, when the weak…
Pollen and Pedals: Surviving Spring Without Sneezing into a Tree

June 2, 2025 at 3:50 pm2 min reading

Health & Training

Spring: that glorious time of year when birds chirp, trees bloom, and your immune system starts behaving like it’s auditioning for a Shakespearean tragedy. Your eyes weep like you’ve just watched The Notebook, your nose is a mucus cannon, and every pedal stroke through a…