You know those Super Randonneurs who go on to complete Paris-Brest-Paris in sub 80 hours? Or a rider who forges a successful career as a top UK roadie, eventually makes it into a Pro Tour team and comes 3rd in the Olympic Road Race? Maybe someone who breaks the Round-the-world cycling record? Time triallists who can do a '25' in less than 50 minutes, or sub 4 hour centuries? Cycle couriers who can ride fixed at 25 mph against the traffic down a one-way street, one hand holding their phone to contact the office, the other rolling a spliff which they then smoke on the way to their next delivery? The bloke who rode along a tightrope over Niagra Falls?
Well it's going to be a website for cyclists like them!
Sorry, it's
not going be a website for cyclists like them!
It's going to be for ordinary cyclists who want to ask a few questions and get simple hints and tips to improve their cycling; useful information; laughs; routes, whatever ...
Let's just say it will be for any cyclist who knows less than me, and hasn't yet done what I've done, but wants to get to my (former) best level and beyond. Once they are confident riding hilly 200s, or fast centuries, can fix their bikes when something goes wrong, and generally could teach me a thing or two, then I'd invite them to give something back and contribute to the site themselves.
Really, it should be like a condensed version of parts of CycleChat with a narrower focus and my personal touch.
And ... I'd be trying to earn a living from it!
As
Rebel Ian has so kindly pointed out, I do go out of my way to try and be helpful here on CycleChat. I just decided that I should put a hefty chunk of that effort into my own site. I'll still post here, but I'll be making more of my posts on my own site instead.
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