Cycling

Well, yesterday was only a short trip - about three miles each way. The route out is mostly a gentle climb (into the wind - wouldn’t you just believe it) that left me thinking I’d made a dreadful mistake. Perhaps fixing isn’t for me after all. Or maybe I just need to track down a...
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So I’ve finally succumbed to the Dark Side. First little trip out tomorrow morning . . .off to the pool and back. Bike still needs some work doing on it, so no photos yet. I’m running 42 x 14T with 700C wheels. Hope this isn’t too butch for my girl’s blouse legs. As ZappoMan (pictured left)...
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You’ve seen TrainSpotting - the film with Ewan McGregor; after Shallow Grave, but before Moulin Rouge . . . and way before The Phantom Smegging Menace. (George, how could you?) Well it seems that fixed wheel living has many similarities to a life on smack. . . . I found this on fixiefaqs.xwiki.com, when looking...
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I found this on Dvorak.org/blog - a roller coaster for cyclists (with details on treehugger.com). Surely this looks like the scariest roller coaster in the world. You can see the thte ‘bikes’ have been designed with practicality in mind - they even have shopping baskets. I just hope that the ‘bikes’ have a freewheel, rather...
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I had a daft idea this morning. Since I’m doing all this cycling, would someone like to pay me for it -  to ease their conscience for driving around in, say, a huge 4×4. So I’ve put it up on Ebay, to try to put a figure on what people think it’s worth.
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No swim this morning - I took the extra hour in bed. But I did finally got around to my first brick session of the season - a 25k bike trip (work related), which I felt so zingy at the end of that I thought I really should go for a run too -...
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I read an excellent piece lampooning 4×4 driving yummy mummies from the Telegraph (pronounced “Torygraph” if you read the Gurndian) on the Urban Commuter’s blog. I found it particularly poignant, having had my own run-in with a 4×4 last Friday. I was coming back from central Newcastle via Byker, heading down the A187 Foss Way...
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I meant to post this last Monday, but what with one thing and another. Well, you know how it is. I read Adrian Fitch’s blog last Friday (2nd March), and found out that he’d entered the Tour De France. Well, almost - just the British Cyclosportive the week before the actual first stage. So...
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I think I’m hanging out with the wrong kids. People from the wrong side of the tracks who’re trying to get me into all kinds of trouble, like wearing my underpants on the outside of my trousers. The lure of converting my rather old but zippy Raleigh Record Sprint (pictured left in it’s original colours...
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There’s an article in this month’s Cycling Plus about The Science of Safety. Based on research by Ian Walker (famous as the world’s fifth best lair. No, really) at Bath University, it makes interesting reading. He’s looked quite extensively into the behaviour and riding stance of cyclists, and how these impact (that’s probably not the...
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