have to start this column with a confession. This isn’t the 250th edition of Race Face. It’s actually the 248th edition of this column, the first three of which went under the title of Gravel Rash, followed by another 245 issues with the Race Face banner. I didn’t have a column in issue one — although I did have a story in that mag — and I think there was another issue missed somewhere along the way when there was a change of editor, or I was on holiday, or maybe I just
