Dear Tom, I like reading your articles, and was wondering if I could ask a bit of advice from you? I am fairly new to cycling, one year, and I’m 31. I did my first race a 26.5 mile “crit” for cat 4 riders today, and whilst I finished, the others riders almost finished 10 [...]
Category Amateur Cycling, Beginners Guides, Pro Cycling, Road, Tom Murray · Tags Knights of old, Metaltek, Racing, Racing team, Road, Team, Tom Murray
Posted by Tom "Minty" Murray on September 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Tom Murray chats to Andy Corkill The 2012 Tour of Britain is set to be the best and most supported one ever, thanks to a hugely successful Olympic Games and a certain achievement of Bradley Wiggins and Team Sky in the Tour de France you may have to fight for your spot on the [...]
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The 2012 road season is heading for its close and with it comes the Tour of Britain, you will struggle to miss it this year too after all the publicity from the Tour de France and Olympics the Tour of Britain is set to be a big success this year. The streets, towns and fields [...]
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Team Sigmasport-Specialized of 2011 has become Team IG-Sigmasport of 2012, to most this is a name change and not much else but in reality it’s a lot more than that, it’s a new direction and a great new opportunity but it’s also a great reflection on the direction cycling is taking in the UK at [...]
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Posted by Tom "Minty" Murray on January 6, 2012 · 3 Comments
This winter I set off to the Gent, Six days full of enthusiasm and excitement, its somewhere I have great memories off, somewhere I have passed down many a story about to my friends, family and anyone else who would listen. But there is a problem, a worry stuck in my head I think the [...]
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Posted by Anna Magrath on October 24, 2011 · Leave a Comment
NOW CLOSED! Our own, very generous Tom Murray and the lovely folk at Team Sigma Sport – Specialized are offering Cycling Shorts readers the chance to win a full set of Team Sigma Sport Specialized Pro Kit (bib shorts, Jersey and gilet), that’s over £200 worth of kit you could bag yourself! After a great [...]
Category Amateur Cycling, Anna Magrath, Competitions & Prize Draws, Dream Kit & Gadgets, Pro Cycling, Road, Tom Murray, Track · Tags Bib Shorts, Chris Ball, competition, Cycling, cycling team, Dan Duguid, Gary Dodd, Gilet, ITV4, James Williamson, Jennifer Hewitt, Jerone Walters, jersey, Kit Gillham, Lee Turner, Manchester Velodrome, Phill Sykes, prize draw, Pro Cycling, Pro cycling Team, Russell Hampton, Sigma Sport, Simon Lawn, Simon Richardson, Specialized, Steve Adams, Steve Golla, Steve Lampier, Symon Lewis, Team Sigma Sport Specialized, Team Sigma Sport., Tom Copeland, Tom Last, Tom Murray, UCI, win, Win Cycling Bib Shorts, Win Cycling Gilet, Win Cycling Jersey, Wouter Sybrandy
Posted by Tom "Minty" Murray on October 14, 2011 · 1 Comment
So the season is over, the racing bike is back in the shed and the long winter months are upon us, but what happens now? Where do all these riders go to? If you’re a ‘normal’ member of society no doubt this change doesn’t seem a big deal, maybe you will swop your [...]
Category Pro Cycling, Road, Tom Murray, Track · Tags autograph, Bicycle, Bike, bike lights, bike racing, bored, brakes, Charity, coffee, coffee bonk, cycling shops, cyclists, DIY, DIY SOS, domestic pro, drinking, drunk, ITV4, John Steel, John Steel Photography, lights, Minty, off season, party, Pro Cycling, pro cyclists, Pro Riders, road cycling, seat pin, Team Sigma Sport Specialized, Tom Murray, training, Training Camp, unfit, winter, winter bike, winter cycling
National Criterium Championships, Beverley, East Yorkshire, 29th July 2011 The National Criterium Championships have been and gone and I’ve just woken up Saturday morning ‘the day after the night before’, it’s a strange feeling waking up with a bronze medal. Last night I was over the moon with it but now it’s sat [...]
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