In recent months we’ve shared videos by Roberto Peixoto of cycling in the Loire Valley and Tuscany. This month Dordogne gets the treatment. The Dordogne is where The Chain Gang started, way back in 1997. What I really like about…
The BBC have started reporting on the Giro – for the first time that I can remember. The trouble is they’re not awfully good at it yet. If you want information as it happens, with expert commentary on what the…
The Giro was first run in 1909, organised by the sports newspaper La Gazetta Dello Sport. The pink newsprint of the Gazetta is the reason why the leader of the Giro rides in pink, it’s the 2nd most prestigious jersey…
The Giro is made up of teams of 9 riders. I won’t bore you with the details here, they can be found elsewhere, but basically in professional bike racing riders can only gain time over their rivals in time trials…
A simple question. Have a look at this photo. Think through the possibilities. Is this the way forward for The Chain Gang? It’s a poor beverage selection (click the image to enlarge), but we could work together on that. …
I was recently minded to trawl through our arcive of blogs and newsletters. There was a detail about the murky origins of the Tour de France and how it was tied in with the Dreyfus Affair in 19th Century France,…
We’re giving away more than £1,000 of Chain Gang cycle jerseys – so pay attention! Last year, for the first time, we had some cycling jerseys made for The Chain Gang. There was no qualification to earn one, we just…
The aim of these pieces is to try and get away from ‘brochure puff’ and to relate the reasons I like each of our tours. Not the reasons we decided to start each tour, but the reason I enjoy going…
Recently I shared with you a video made by Roberto Peixoto of cycling with the Chain Gang in the Loire Valley. This month, join Rob and others in Tuscany. I particularly enjoyed the scenes from Montalcino. You see the ‘Gang’…
I’ve added 10 new galleries to our Flickr photostream. There is a new gallery for each of our tours, and each gallery is a selection of 50 or so photographs that I’ve selected for our new website. Here’s a favourite…
