Colin is a freelance sports journalist who first started reporting on cycling during the 2013 Tour de France on a month-long internship with RoadCyclingUK. The cycling bug bit so hard he was still there when Geraint Thomas rode to victory five years later. Much more comfortable writing about other people riding bikes than doing so himself, he remains unconvinced of the merits of shaving his legs and his Cube Peloton Race still bears the scars of his first battles with clipless pedals. While he counts the (lower slopes of the) Alps and Pyrenees among the places he has ridden, family life means his body is best suited to dragging a children’s trailer along a coastal path than conquering mountains…
