Assassination Attempts

After my experiments last year with strapping my compact digital camera to my handlebars to film what I see when I’m out and about, I finally took the plunge & bought a helmet camera a couple of weeks ago. Really I wanted this for three reasons: Insurance. What?! Well, if anything happens, I want a...
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There are several roads near here which would be just great for cycling when you’re in a hurry to get somewhere. Roads like the A1058 Coast Road, which takes you in pretty much an arrow-straight line from the coast (the clue’s in the name) to the centre of Newcastle. The problem is that this...
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Spring is just around the corner, which means mileage - heading out into the great outdoors for long, long rides, and not quite so long runs. The trouble is that I don’t usually carry any ID, so if I were to be in a serious accident . . . well, let’s just say that...
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Dr Ian Walker carried out some interesting on-the-road research a couple of years back. He was trying to assess the likelihood of a cyclist being involved in a collision under varying circumstances. His central research method was to ride around with a whole bunch of sensors on his bike, which then measured how much...
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Today was a work day, but that doesn’t mean that I didn’t get to cycle. In fact, rather too much cycling for my own good. Fist of all, there was a ride into Walker to see a client for a short (non-billable) meeting. This was supposed to start at 11, be over by 11:45, giving...
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After my not-terribly-close-thing this morning, this from The Bicycle Diaries (The Slow Motion Revolution):  Biker (after narrowly avoiding being smacked by a car making a turn illegally): Use your f***ing signal! Cager : F*** you! I’m on the phone! So at least I’m not alone in this world.
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So here’s my cycling mileage plan for this week: 30 yesterday 15 today 15 tomorrow morning 30 tomorrow afternoon 15 in the Sunday morning spin class If I manage all of those, then I’ll be less than 500 miles from my goal mileage. I’m finding that as I get closer to the target, I’m accelerating my mileage - it’s almost...
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Today was a big cycling day for me. With one thing and another, I’d only got in just over 20 miles this week, and I’m still aiming for 150 miles a fortnight to make sure that the year’s goal is well and truly in the bag. I had two slots of two hours available, so...
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I was behind in my cycling mileage for this fortnight, and had hardly been on the bike since the Warwick triathlon two weeks ago. Officially, this was a rest period, after doing three sprint triathlons in six weeks. But also, I’d just reached a level of burnout, where I just didn’t want to cycle...
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So after two days taking it easy, it was back to the grindstone this morning. The plan was to put in 50 miles, starting at 6am. But watching just one more episode of Season 4 of Twenty-Four last night made for getting to bed late, so I ended up leaving the house just before...
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