i began crankpunk so that i’d have a place to vent and so that my friends could follow my exploits as i raced around Asia, but as there are more readers coming each week i feel it’s time i explained who i am. i enjoy writing with the ‘mask’ that crankpunk affords me, but in truth it’s pretty much the way i always write anyway. anyone who read my race diaries on VeloNews and Pez Cycling would have guessed it was me though, I think…

that’s some damn fine chocolate

crankpunk is me, Lee Rodgers, an English professional road cyclist on UCI Continental CCN Racing Team, based and living in Asia, who also doubles as a freelance journalist, writing in the main about this great passion of ours. i say ‘ours’ cos if you’re reading this then i’m presuming that you too are edging the bike-geek-o-meter’s needle dangerously close to ‘this one’s a lost cause’, and no doubt have at least one room in your house that bears witness to your love, manifested through countless sets of wheels, useless busted tires you for some reason keep around, chammy creams in various states of crustiness and endless nuts, bolts, saddles, hex wrenches and on and on and on, and maybe even a few race numbers strewn about too…

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