Posts Tagged ‘ Whitley Bay ’

… when this is right there? Most people live within a 25 minute ride of where they work. Yet even on days like this, they believe the big lie that they *have* to drive. Maybe it’s a trick of the glass they have to look through to see the world outside. Or maybe they’ve just spent...
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Last autumn Daughter and I were talking. One of her friends is now a regular at our local Park Run with her dad. Daughter wanted to do something similar, but really doesn’t fancy running. So we hatched a plan to ride the C2C - from Whitehaven on the Irish Sea coast in Cumbria to Whitley...
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Whitley Bay has a large network of traffic-free streets. Like those elsewhere, they’re more desirable places to live, where people don’t have to worry about traffic noise, and children can play free of the fear of failing their Green Cross Code. You see hopscotch grids chalked on the paths, and people chatting with their...
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The other weekend I took my DIY cargo bike to the shops to do a major stock up. The advantage of the bike is that I can park it right by the shop’s entrance: You’ll notice that I’ve only locked it with a D-lock through the back wheel - it’s hard to find things to...
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I met this woman in Whitely Bay today: See that behind the double-buggy? It’s the obvious alternative to a buggy board. I’ve always puzzled about buggy boards, which leave the parent walking along stretched out like some demented time trial cyclist who wants to spend every spare minute practising “getting really aero”. Apparently it’s called a...
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Number fourteen in our series: An early spring evening and a bike with saddle springs: As I came out onto the sea front next to Beaches & Cream in Cullercoats, I saw this lady ride past. I caught her up a hundred yards or so down the road and complemented her on her bike… Sensible (I...
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So. I was riding from Tynemouth to Whitley Bay last night when I noticed an eerie green and purple glow in the sky. Naturally, I stopped, rubbed my eyes, checked that there was nothing wrong with my headlight and continued on. Could this be the northern lights I was seeing? After I picked up Daughter...
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Some photos! Old Raleigh parked at the end of the C2C. Don’t know if it was someone’s bike, or if they’d just left it there as an “end of the road” statement! The Cullercoats Small Joinery Bike. Have bike, will turn up and adjust hinges on doors, I guess. One of mine - I was heading off...
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We live by the sea, which can be very hard on anything you leave outside. After nearly 13 years in this house, the front gate’s post and latch finally gave up the fight, and needed replacing. Reasoning that most things can be done by bike, I went to F.E. Maughan’s, the hardware store in Whitley...
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This is Stanley - I met him in North Shields while riding home to Whitley Bay today: I had to stop him and talk to him because of the bike he was riding: Like other people around here, he scours the back lanes for scrap metal that he recycles. Apparently, Stanley can get TWO washing machines into...
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