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Guy Danaway and his family live on the outskirts of Rugby. He is chairman of a small engineering company and has been a keen club cyclist for many years. He has edited Cycling Weekly since 1984 and is a regular contributor to the media on cycling issues. More Posts

This is what I don’t get …

Welcome to the future, sorry the modern world, which is neither like the past nor indeed how things should be. Overnight in the wee hours, for the fourth time in the last six or seven weeks, just as I was composing a long and detailed email on a complicated subject, my desktop computer suddenly [...]

August 2, 2018 // 0 Comments

Tour de France

With the World Cup and Wimbledon, the Tour de France had had to take third billing which is a shame as it’s an intriguing competition this year with many issues. First, would Chris Froome be allowed to ride and if he did would he win his 6th Tour and 4th successively; could Mark Cavendish [...]

July 18, 2018 // 0 Comments

A battle won, but maybe not the War …

The struggle of oldies against the relentless tide of smart technology is eternal. Mine began some nearly four decades ago when a VHS recorder engineer arrived chez nous to install the new-fangled machine and casually asked whether we had any children – simply because widely-received opinion had [...]

June 8, 2018 // 0 Comments

This fish is still rotting – can’t you smell it?

Well, whaddya know? At the risk of appearing partisan and disrespectful to one of Britain’s sporting icons and his extended team, I have never ‘bought’ the Sir Bradley Wiggins/Team Sky line that everything was totally ‘above board’ about their conduct relating to the [...]

February 13, 2018 // 0 Comments

Something not quite right?

This short post is merely an unimportant observation upon the controversy surrounding Phil Neville’s recent appointment as the manager of the England women’s football team. The furore has been over two issues: firstly, whether or not his ‘celebrity’ as a former [...]

January 31, 2018 // 0 Comments

The complexities of life

Sometimes the issues attendant upon possessing and living with an elderly relative are, or gradually become, complex, disarming, enlightening and occasionally bizarre. Perhaps, simply because human society is such a contrary and wonderful thing, nobody should be surprised about this. In addition, [...]

September 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

Whose news is it anyway?

In these strange times there are moments when you find yourself shaking your head wondering just what the hell is going on. My son is currently staying with me and scarcely a day goes by when, reacting to the latest news from the United States about the antics of Donald Trump, he doesn’t comment [...]

August 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

Hands up anyone who’s worth a hill of beans

Like most people I came across yesterday, I was fascinated to learn the details of ‘who gets what’ when the BBC published (in bands) the salaries of its presenters and actors who earn 150,000 pounds sterling or more and yet at the same time I also had misgivings about the disclosures. The first [...]

July 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

A defining stage

Tour cycling is both an individual and team sport. The ‘domestiques’ (literally ‘servants’) have to support the team leader. Famously on this very stage of Pau to Peyragudes, Chris Froome once had to sacrifice victory for Bradley Wiggins and yesterday Landa did the same for [...]

July 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

Tour de France

I was rather pleased with so much sport this weekend that my personal take on cycling should make the front page. Reporting on cycling these days is like apologising for halitosis. Its a sport that Team Sky dominates but scandal never seems far off to puncture any achievement. Those who are [...]

July 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

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