Do The Right Thing

I’m struggling. Really struggling.
Work is 17 miles away, and there are all sorts of subliminal anti-bike things within the culture. I’m actually working some pretty long hours too. And trying to get to the pool for the early session four days a week. And I’m now in the final period of my training for [...]

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I’ve never ridden a BMX bike - I always had sensible big-wheeled bikes as a kid, and to be honest there’s something odd about an adult learning to do the sort of amazing stunts, tricks & jumps that the cool kids can do.
But that doesn’t mean we don’t like BMXs - au contraire, we think [...]

Filed under: Friday Caption Competition, Industrial-Strength Sarcasm, Photographs | 5 Comments »

Whenever I start to push the mileage, I end up with a distinctly sore back-side. I’ve tried all sorts of different saddles and different set-ups - tilted up, down; moved fore and aft, a little higher & a little lower, but to no avail . . .
. . . until now.
Here’s what seems to work [...]

Filed under: Bike Culture, Injury, Too Much Information | 7 Comments »