As the festive period subsides and the threat of gout with it, it’s time to reflect, eat vegetables, and think about organising your life for the New Year. But first off, you’re going to have to purge some of the unnecessary consumer goods which ended up under your tree. The most useless thing anyone has […]

First, a couple of disclaimers… Starting with the fact that this list doesn’t contain 12 things. I got to 11 and gave up. Second, this is not really a list of 12 things you should actually buy anyone else. It’s more like 12 things you should buy me (don’t get me another Orb though, I’ve […]

With the Transcontinental having just finished, and the inaugural Silk Road Mountain Race just begun, bikepacking has never been sexier than it is at the moment. So in order to restore some balance to the force, I had planned to treat you all to a series of really geeky gear reviews of my bikepacking kit. […]

I’ll admit that I laughed at Jeff (friend and Orb cameraman) when he complained to me that the book he was reading (I, Robot) was a bit heavy on the robots. But as I walked around Eurobike 2018, I started to sympathise. Just as Jeff probably didn’t need to know Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, […]