We cyclists can be a smug little group sometimes. You need only look at the many and various publications to realise how much we like forming cliques so we can point and laugh at those who have not found the true path.

Mountain Bike Rider (to which I used to subscribe) moved into some strange netherworld called 'Freeride' where full-suspension big-hit rigs were the thing to be seen on and anything else simply existed to be jeered at. Mountain biking, while a passion of mine, provides many more examples with the downhillers, XCers, dirt jumpers, freeriders, singlespeeders and so on claiming publications of their own long the way.

Road racing is often seen as a clique of its own, but within there you will find people obsessed with weight saving, another band of singlespeeders or those who audax, climb, or even hit the track.

And they all have their own specific ways and means which are then reflected in the print choice available. It's refreshing, therefore, to come across magazines every so often which promote inclusion. And so it was that David Gardiner pointed me in the direction of VeloVision, something of a kibbutz-mag where everyone is invited to join the fun no matter what colour their biking preference.

A refreshing change. After all, as someone once sang, the World is just a Great Big Onion.

No, I never understood that either. Something to do with layers...

.anth