Advertise with The Inner Ring

The website’s been well supported by Strada Wheels and Neil Pryde Bikes in recent times and I’ve been pleased to feature their advertising on here and grateful for their support. But right now the site is ad-free. The blog is fun. All the interaction with readers has been great. The support received already has more than … Read more

Thanks to NeilPryde Bikes

A note of thanks to NeilPryde bikes who are supporting this blog. Their advertising presence supports this blog and as I’ve said before, ads are not necessary… but they help. Hopefully you don’t find the presence of a third party intrusive when reading and I’m not trying any contrived pieces to work a Neil Pryde … Read more

Welcome to new readers

Just a quick note to say welcome to the new readers on here. If you’re new to The Inner Ring then it’s worth mentioning a couple of things.

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As seen on cyclingnews.com

In case you hadn’t noticed, the Tour de France starts on Saturday. During July I’ll be doing a few blog pieces for cyclingnews.com that touch on the Tour de France, the usual “Inner Ring” take on things.

Each time I’ll link to them in case you want to read and the first piece is now available to read online.

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Thanks to NeilPryde Bikes

Neil Pryde Alize

A note of thanks to NeilPryde bikes for backing the Inner Ring. The name has long been famous amongst windsurfers and they’re bringing their expertise in carbon fibre and aerodynamics to the world of cycling with a new pair of carbon fibre frames, the Alize and Diablo. Click on the advert on the right to read more about them.

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Sunday housekeeping

A quick hello to all the new readers. Word seems to be spreading and there are more and more of you these days. I’m not really into chasing hits for the blog, instead the best thing is all the comment and emails from readers. I read each and every comment and try to reply and chip into the debates as much as I can. Note that if you want to leave a comment, it asks for your name and email but you can just put “anon” or whatever you like in these fields, you don’t have to supply personal details to take part.

Feel free to email as well, I’ll always reply to your messages; if you haven’t got a reply it’s 99% probable that I never got the message, it got flicked by the anti-spam filter. I’ve got a “to do” list of topics to cover that’s getting very long already so if you’ve sent in a suggestion and I’d said “yes, that’d be good”, it’s probably on the list.

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Thanks to Strada Wheels

A message of thanks to Strada Wheels for supporting the blog. The British wheel builder is advertising during May. If you wonder what they’re up to, they build bespoke wheels with alloy and carbon rims, what ever you want from clinchers and tubs to spoke count or hub choice. They’ve just started working with US … Read more