Introducing roadie.net.au

If you’ve been following and enjoying my take on all things cycling via this Tumblr the past few years, then I’d like to invite you over to roadie - my new cycling website and the place where I’ll be spending most of my time.

roadie is my meditation on all things road cycling. Much of it is devoted to the world of professional road racing, though occasionally I’ll try and present perspectives from my own time out on the bike. The photography and writing are all mine but from time-to-time you’ll also find video from right around the world that best shows off this wonderful sport.

And right now, it’s all things Tour de France. With previews of every stage and insights into how the tactics should play out each day on the road to Paris.

“To design something really well you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to thoroughly understand something – chew it up, not just quickly swallow it. Most people don’t take the time to do that. Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask a creative person how they did something, they may feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after awhile. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or have thought more about their experiences than other people have. Unfortunately, that’s too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. They don’t have enough dots to connect, and they en up with very linear solutions, without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better designs we will have.”

– Steve Jobs RIP

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The Elite in full colour…