We’ve now published details of our programme for 2012. So starting on June 16th we’ll be offering guided group bikes tours around France, Italy and the UK. Obviously there’s lots of detail about all of our tours on our website…
I’ve put a new Gallery on Flickr – Umbria, a series of photographs taken by Simon Moss last June. I’ve chosen some favourites to give you a flavour. Not the best photographs, necessarily, but the photos that say ‘Umbria’ the…
Just a few days agon, on May 28th 2011, New Zealand BMX legend Jed Mildon performed a TRIPLE backwards somersault on a BMX. Luckily for us he was wearing a ‘Helmet Cam’ so we can see what the stunt looked…
We’ve finally taken the plunge and offer online booking on The Chain Gang website. Why did I take so long? Well, most of our holidays are sold some time in advance, so we take a small deposit payment and the…
I think we’ve taken a very significant step towards realising a long-held Chain Gang dream. The biggest thing about The Chain Gang is that groups of people share a week of cycling together and become friends. When I’m guiding I…
49%. Remember that number, and I’ll explain what it means. Last year I joined one of our Dordogne groups in September, just for a couple of days. I’d been with a group on the Bordeaux Winetrail the week before, and…
Our first tours this year will be in the Dordogne, and in Devon, both starting on June 11th. The Dordogne is where we started, and is probably still my favourite. Ironically our first hotel, probably my favourite hotel of any…
Yes, you read that right. In southern England we now have quite a lot of vineyards, and on our revised Devon bike tour we cycle past three of them. We visit two of them, so I thought it would be…
Last month our Newsletter contained 5 items which I loosely labelled as ‘news’. The most popular proved to be the new photo galleries on Flickr. So, here’s another one for you. I asked Roberto Peixoto to send me his photos…
A few weeks ago I was in the ‘Lot et Garonne’ region of France as a guest of the French tourist board. They were showing off Lot et Garonne, and I was trying to see if it’s interesting enough to…
