I've launched a new cycling blog at http://www.atomicecho.com/cycling/ which will be my new project for the year, or at least until the Etape comes round again next year.

The idea is to write about all aspects of my cycling life, not just the one event. Mostly I've been writing about racing, or my attempts at it, but it will include kit reviews and advice eventually. Please check it out and try clicking on any ads that take your fancy as I'm also using it to see what sort of ad revenue I can get from a blog type site.

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To find out more about the challenge I have set myself and how to sponsor me go to: www.atomicecho.com/etape. You might even like to read the blog too.

At the moment the page is using one of the standard templates available from blogger.com but once I get an afternoon free I plan to modify this to a custom one with my own design and style sheet.

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Yes, it is a bit minimal and looks a bit like many blog sites, but that's what I wanted. There will be singing and dancing bits but the idea is to keep it simple and manageable. Yes, there are also some glaring omissions on the site which I will deal with when I have a moment.

I hope you like.

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The news section is driven by blogger.com while the other pages are static, generated from the one template in Dreamweaver. I have been looking at other alternatives such as Typepad or Movable Type from Six Apart but as I am familiar with blogger now, or rather have figured out how to get it to work in a way which suits me I'm going to stick with it.

I will be considering Movable Type for a couple of possible projects I have coming up as it seems to offer a great deal of flexibility for a good price

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