Bike to Work

The weather here’s been properly wintry over the last few days. It started off with a cold & clear weekend of heavy frosts and bright skies, and then descended into freezing rain, hail, sleet and all that jazz from Monday lunch time. I was supposed to be on the BikeAbility instructors’ course from Monday to...
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That David Hembrow’s got me thinking again. He lives just across the sea from me in what looks like Cycling Utopia. I don’t mean that in a sarcastic way either - from the saddle I sit on, the Netherlands, and specifically Assen, look like The Real Deal. Anyway, he posted some photos and a video...
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At that cycling conference I went to a couple of weeks ago (the one I keep going on about, as if I don’t get out much . . .), Philip Darnton, Chair of Cycle England laid down a challenge to everyone attending: YOU have to recruit two non-cyclists, and get ‘em on their bikes by...
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Wife’s away visiting a friend from university. So having walked Huge Dalmation, fed, bathed & put Daughter to bed, I’ve spent the evening Wwilfing. Amongst other things, I’ve found pictures from the Armistice Day services, The Great War (the war to end all wars), and a whole lot of bike stuff. Which brings me to...
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You know how bad luck happens in threes? Well I’m waiting for the third. A couple of weeks ago, I was congratulating myself on having gone at least a year without a puncture. The Gods were obviously listening, ‘cos soon after that I got a superb flat in my Sturdy Commuting Bike, Wilf’s, rear tyre....
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I had a meeting on Friday in York. That’s about 85 miles each way . . . even at my most mileage-obsessed, that’s too far to ride, so once again, I had to choose between the car or an alternative - in this case, public transport. This was an economic argument: My car’s good for...
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My momma always said, “Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” So how’s about this for a story via BikingBis on Twitter - Mark Brackett and Roger Ivester, two cyclists in North Caronlina have just notched up 100,000 miles each. Took one of them 17 years, and the...
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Yesterday was one of those days where it could be easy to drive rather than ride. I had to go to visit my client in Walker (just over 8 miles each way), and when I got up, there was a steady drizzle falling. Not the kind of weather where you look at it and...
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When I was in That London the other week, I took some photos of locked bikes around Angel tube station, for my other blog. Firstly, here’s a picture of one way to stop your bike being pinched. Have a bike that no-one would want to buy. Actually, it’s just the sort of bike I’d buy,...
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I’m working with an engineering firm in Walker at the moment. The thing with engineering firms is that people get excited about the strangest things - like the project I’ve been working on to restore my Pashley tandem. So with the weather forecast favourable yesterday, I took the opportunity to take the tandem for the...
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