Aidan Crowley reflects on a manic 12 months of his life and business. “If the last year has shown me anything,” he stresses, “it is to analyse and verify everything. I’d ask ten people but I don’t ask ten people who’ll tell me they love it.” His business? Selling clothing to cycling clubs – or at least that is what it was. A year that challenged pretty much everyone left some in a better place. “I can make 85 different things but most cycling clubs need only a tenth or so of that. A top-of-the-range jersey, shorts and gilet would…

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