Posts Tagged ‘ Blyth ’

I’m not sure if this was a bungled assassination attempt, or if it was an expertly performed damned-near-thing, instigated on behalf of the car Mafia in an effort to warn me off. Here’s what happened… Riding home through Blyth, my route takes me through a series of five roundabouts. The third of these includes a traffic...
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That was the parting shot from the driver who’d almost run straight into me yesterday as they drove up the wrong side of the road. In fairness, I’d probably not got the conversation off to the best start - when someone’s just made a passable attempt to kill me, I sometimes use some rather...
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. . . make them continuous and more or less direct. Unlike the section of National Cycle Route 1, just north of Blyth, where you go from a beautiful segregated cycle path that runs parallel to the A189 Spine Road, onto a crazy zig-zag to get you past East Sleekburn and Bedlington Station: I...
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On the way into work today, I came across this broken drain grating in Whitley Bay: We could say that as it’s right on the very edge of the road, it’s no hazard to cyclists (you do ride 60-120cm from the edge, don’t you?), but as I was taking this picture, I almost got...
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