Posted on July 30th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
I was at a networking thing in Newcastle yesterday evening. Somehow, although I’m supposed to be talking Work at these things, the conversation always gets around to cycling. Talking with a small group, I was impressed that two of them actually brought up the subject of cycling without (much) prompting from me.
The first - a […]
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Posted on July 29th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
This via UltraRob on Twitter. One of New York’s ‘finest’ assaulting a cyclist during a Critical Mass thing:
Full story on the New York Times’ City Room blog.
Cyclists are a minority group (less than 5% of the population), and in other circumstances similar to this, the result’s been rioting. Maybe it’s a good job that we’re […]
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Posted on July 25th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
Maybe I’m getting old, or it’s just an attempt to buck the system. But I have the urge to get a bike that’s seriously comfortable.
Inspired by sites like Copenhagenize.com (and it’s twin - CopenhagenCycleChic.com), Amsterdamize.com, and even Yehuda Moon and the Kickstand Cyclery, I’ve started looking at a more traditional, upright type of bike. For […]
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Posted on July 4th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
In last weekend’s trial ride around the Steelman’s bike course, my cyclecomputer was acting up a little. It’s been doing this intermittently since I went for that ride in France and almost drowned in the rain - although it’s waterproof, I don’t think they reckoned on it ever getting that wet! Basically what seems to […]
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Posted on June 12th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
Carlton Reid’s put up a HUGE page of cycling quotes on the quickrelease.tv site. It takes literally ages to read ‘em all. Well, not literally ages, but a long time. Then again though, just think how long it must’ve taken to research them in the first place! This sort of effort deserves some reward, so […]
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Posted on May 23rd, 2008 by Karl On Sea
OK, so I’m now six weeks out from my first half Iron-man race. It’s time to get all those little doubts and niggles about things like bike setup sorted out. My big worry is what handlebar setup to go for on this 58-mile, relatively flat course, and I hope YOU can give me some advice.
Generally […]
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Posted on May 5th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
. . . so I didn’t drink as much as I should have done on the bike.
Anyway - the Run. VonSmallhaussen’s up to stay for the weekend, so she volunteered to come with me for the run - to the lighthouse and back. Except she was going to cycle (borrowing Wife’s bike), so that she […]
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Posted on April 20th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
I did a ride this morning to test the new TT-style setup on my road bike. For the race season, I’ve replaced the handlebars with a Profile Airwing and mounted a pair of Profile T2+ aerobars on these. I’ve replaced the integrated Tiagra shifters & brake levers with Crane Creek brakes, and Shimano Dura Ace […]
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Posted on April 6th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
The weather forecast was right for today - frequent snow, sleet & hail showers, with agood strong northerly wind to drive it all in you face.
The trouble was that the plan had an 80 minute run session for me today. So I could
Bunk off, claiming that the schedule had been put together when the first […]
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Posted on April 5th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
The weather forecast for tomorrow is for snow. We won’t get much here (the sea keeps us nice and ‘warm’, but that’s a strictly relative term), and although I don’t mind riding on snowy roads, you do have to take things carefully. So any training session would end up being more about spending time with […]
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