{"id":204149,"date":"2025-11-10T06:46:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T06:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=204149"},"modified":"2025-11-13T11:36:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T11:36:42","slug":"from-judge-dredd-to-the-trails-of-the-czech-countryside-an-artist-rides-prague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2025\/11\/10\/from-judge-dredd-to-the-trails-of-the-czech-countryside-an-artist-rides-prague\/","title":{"rendered":"From Judge Dredd to the Trails of the Czech Countryside: An Artist Rides Prague"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stewart Kenneth Moore, aka SK Moore, is an artist specialising in landscapes and, especially, comic books such as Judge Dredd<\/em> and Dick Tracy<\/em>. He is also an avid cyclist, riding to and from his studio every weekday and often riding the trails outside the city of Prague, where he has lived since 1994.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen you cycle, you use your own steam to get from A to B, there\u2019s a feeling of achievement that comes of riding,\u201d the 56-year-old Glaswegian says in his rich Scottish accent. \u201cIt’s also a healthy thing you do for your body. I like the way the world looks in motion, how it opens up to you. In the countryside, the silence of the bike means you happen upon deer before they know you are there. The trails also open up beautiful places you would never see by car or tram.\u201d<\/p>\n

His long, exploratory rides in the countryside are inevitably accompanied by photos of Moore sitting outside a village pub with a tall, foaming mug of beer at his elbow. He recalls one eventful ride to the magnificent Gothic Karl\u0161tejn Castle, located about 35 km from Prague.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy chain snapped on a hill above Karl\u0161tejn Castle,\u201d he recalls. \u201cBut with no chain, I managed to freewheel all the way down the hills to the Dob\u0159ichovice train station, which sounds ridiculous, but I did it.\u201d It sounds ridiculous because the town of Dob\u0159ichovice is more than 12 km from the castle, which must represent a personal freewheeling record for Moore.<\/p>\n

But riding deep in the countryside was nothing new. \u201cI’ve taken my bike on the train many times so that I can start a ride well away from the city,\u201d he says. \u201cSometimes I pick a train station deep in the countryside and ride to it and then catch the train back. I try to only do off-road. But there are great areas where new highways have drawn traffic away from the old roads, and you have those old roads pretty much to yourself. I don’t mind riding those. But I\u2019m usually on the trails or in the forest, and I put my own paths together with trial and error.\u201d<\/p>\n

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P\u0159\u00edsp\u011bvek sd\u00edlen\u00fd Stewart Kenneth Moore (@booda_von_boodstein)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n