Posts Tagged ‘ photos ’

Yesterday I was early for work, so I thought I’d explore the traffic-free bike routes through Blyth - just to see if there was a route that was comparable with my current one in terms of speed, but a whole lot more pleasant. Here’s what I discovered. 1. The council has thoughtfully installed these barriers...
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Jackie Stuart - ex-Formula One champion ? Surely there’s nothing we’d want to learn from him, is there? Well here’s the thing - I read an article in New Scientist in about oh, 1993, about some jolly clever chaps who were trying to understand how champion drivers are faster than their vanquished rivals. They...
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Great day’s riding today, in spite of (or perhaps because of) the weather. It rained hard a few times during the day, but not while I was out in the elements. But, miracle of miracles, I had a tailwind both on the way to work and on the way home! How often does that happen?...
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We’ll all live in cities in the sky… … doors will open automatically … … people will drive electric cars … … wear synthetic, yet practical clothing… … and the public transport system will be big on monorails … Actually, when I put it like that, it looks like: The future’s here already The future’s a...
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The front wheel on the bike I’ve been commuting with for most of this month is kinda old. It was a replacement (not original) wheel on the Raleigh Record Sprint I bought second hand in 1989, and was a cheep wheel that I’ve not really loved too much. It gets the occasional clean. Well, I...
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I’ve been playing some more with the Bike Hub app , and loving it more and more - especially for those short-ish trips that are too far to walk, but just perfect to ride in almost no time at all. These are the trips that are probably quicker by bike than driving - if only...
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Remember the problem with the saddle on my Pashley? One of the rear coil springs on it’s Brooks B33 Saddle had broken, and the people at Brooks offered to either repair the saddle for me, or send me a new set of springs so I could do it myself . . . Well today,...
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I picked this up toward the end of last week from Bike Portland - pictures painted on the road to give drivers pause for thought: It looks pretty real, but is this the sort of thing that’ll end up causing more problems than it solves? Drivers swerving (rather than braking) to avoid the perceived hazard? Drivers...
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One of my clients runs a physiotherapy centre, and offered to take a look at my dodgy left knee - the one I injured before I did the Ironman. My default behaviour with injuries is to rest them, because that’s what you get told when you go to see your GP...
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This afternoon, Daughter and I took an amble up the coast to St Mary’s island. The weather was fine, and I seemed to remember that there’s usually an ice cream van in the car park - what better excuse did we need? When we rode across to the island, the sea level was still a...
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