Charlie Allenby

Bike London is finally out in the wild! 📙 Covering the UK capital's best cycling cafés, hire, apparel & accessories, clubs, manufacturers, events, venues, routes and local bike shops, it's a definitive guide to cycling in the city. 🔗 Link in bio to get your hands on a copy

Cycling is by no means unique, but the general lack of criticism means that the influence of these states on the sport is only going to go one way

Inspired by the great work that @maxrushden, @bglendenning and the @guardian_sport Football Weekly pod have done on sportswashing over the years, I've written a long read on the situation in cycling, where 4/18 WT teams are sponsored by regimes with poor human rights records

Charlie Allenby investigates sportswashing in cycling, from state sponsorship of WorldTour teams to the reach of sovereign wealth funds across the industry bikeradar.com/features/long-…

@ColinASturgess @DeeBeeCW Amazing, thanks!

I’m a Strava addict – I snitch on other runners to keep myself top of the leaderboard 🖋️ @CharlieAllenby shares how the fitness app has made him a competitive person trib.al/qnflgmE

New on-street bike parking spotted on Shrewsbury Road, Bounds Green 👀

.@wahoofitness announce that it's shutting down @wahooRGT and is offering subscribers a complimentary @GoZwift subscription

Poll: I'm writing a feature for @cyclingweekly on whether it's better to track your cycling training in duration or distance, but am after the general consensus of #cycling Twitter. So, go on, what's your preferred method?

My research on #GameTransferPhenomena has been covered in the Red Bulletin magazine in the context of the Tetris film on Apple TV+. Read the full article by @CharlieAllenby on page 80: issuu.com/redbulletin.co… #Tetris #Tetriseffect #Redbull

📖 CW 16/03 - on sale now In Fitness this week: ▶️ SPRING INTO ACTION: @CharlieAllenby has 21 ideas to get you ready for the new season 🌄 ▶️ MY FITNESS CHALLENGE: Size-inclusion campaigner @MarleyBlonsky on why cycling should welcome riders of all body shapes 🚵

Really enjoyed pulling this piece together on how @GoZwift is helping increase accessibility and inclusion in cycling

@sedwards380 @otter_ai Did you ever get this resolved? I'm having the same issue. Any advice @otter_ai?

Is @otter_ai speeding up recordings for anyone? My settings say they're playing back at normal speed, but the recordings are sounding really fast.

@Microlambert The blue line is a lot quieter. During the first lockdown, I used the following when trying to find a traffic-free route for a nervous cyclist. It was fairly good until just next to Finsbury Park

Wood Green Common to Turnpike Lane. We actually took the main road route shown in orange here, which has some wand-protected lanes, but not for the whole length. I suspect the back street route in blue would be more pleasant, but would need confirmation on this. Thoughts?

THREAD 🧵: Last weekend @netwench and I went on a cycle tour of some LTNs and cycle routes in #Enfield and #Haringey. We saw loads of great stuff and met some awesome campaigners – especial thanks to @subversivite and @halhaines for showing us around

@Microlambert You should come and explore some time! That and the Pymmes Brook Trail are fairly good no/low traffic routes

@CharlieAllenby Despite my misspent youth in the Fox, I’ve never actually cycled up that way. I hear you can get there via Haringey LTNs now

Do any of the really good bits of London's cycle superhighways (yes, I know we don't call them that any more) pass through busy town centres? i.e. sufficiently wide protected lanes in places with lots of businesses and pedestrians? What other town centres are good for cyclists?

I took on my first Olympic-distance triathlon last month at @votwoevents Eton Dorney Tri and got to put some gear through its paces for @T3dotcom. Here are my picks for tri essentials and a couple I would leave at home next time out 🏊🏻🏃‍♀️🚴🏿t3.com/features/best-…

The A-Z of training jargon 🧠 Handy glossary by @CharlieAllenby cyclingweekly.com/fitness/the-a-…

🆕 @cyclingweekly 8th September issue 📖 In Fitness this week: ▶️ RIDE OUT COVID: Everything you need to know as we brace for yet another wave of 🦠📈 ✍️ @CharlieAllenby ▶️ BIG FITNESS PROJECT: The penultimate update from our trio @BarteJulia @SHFaulkner @DannyLloyd13

Great to chat to @altini_marco for this guide to HRV for @runnersworlduk. From my short time of using his HRV4Training app, I've quickly come to the conclusion that beer = bad 🍻❌ runnersworld.com/uk/training/a7…

Cycling is green, an active form of travel, removes congestion from the road and is a statistically less dangerous form of transport for other road users. Want another plus point? It can save you money too: coachmag.co.uk/sport/cycling/…