I've been riding a bike ever since I can remember. As a young child in my school years and then as a teenager, I would regularly take my Rayleigh Chopper to pieces just to find out how it worked. Much to mum's despair, I also repaired bikes for friends and neighbours in dad's garage; and as I grew older, the Chopper was replaced by a racing bike, and this spent as much time in pieces as it did on the road! As I entered adulthood friends, family and work colleagues would regularly bring bikes to me to repair, straighten or re-build; and it is this passion that has grown as my own family moved from kids trailer to child seat, tag-along and now to their own bikes. My passion for cycling has also dictated my choice of bikes. As well as a run of the mill Trek mountain bike and a Giant OCR racing bike (both which I used around town), I also own a Wilier Zero 9 road bike and two two ex-professional team bikes - a Giant TCR road bike in full ONCE yellow/black/grey colours and a Whyte 29-C Team mountain bike. These are my babies and I can regularly be seen riding them around Dorset where these beauties are completely at home.
