Pavement Superman
Todays thoughts are “Ow!” and “Actually, I was quite lucky”. Recently when heading from Horningsea in to Fen Diton I’ve been using the new cycle path. I still don’t like using it because it puts you against traffic (crossing the two A14 sliproads, and crossing to the right to get on it leaving Horningsea) rather [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Has puncture season started?
At the weekend the other half got a puncture in the back tyre of her Fat Boy. Yesterday I got a puncture in the front of the Tricross. Leaves have started falling, as have small branches. Is this the start of the puncture season? I expect later tonight when I (hope to) get around to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Raising Saddles
Every so often I decide that I could push the saddle a bit higher up on one bike or another. Hopefully this reduces the angle that my knees bend to, taking some of the force of them (I have a slightly dodgy right knee), whilst also making me flatten my body a little more to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Tour of Britain stage 7, Foxearth and Ballingdon Hill
Well, I got there. Only one nasty moment and that was on the way back. Going in to Fulbourn from the Balsham side there’s a blindish left hand bend just by the right turn to get in to the village proper. I had a bit of speed on as I intended to take this because [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )New new PB
On Tuesday I was all pleased with myself for getting home in 24:50, yesterday I did it in 24:28. Just as I came out of Horningsea I could see 24:50 was in sight and upped my effort. I then (after getting home) had about 20 minutes of ‘feeble limbs’ as I recovered. It might be [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Tour of Britain 2010
The Tour of Britain is starting soon, and for the first time I’m intending to watch it for real (even though everyone says the best place to see a bike race is on TV). Stage 3 ends in Swansea, with a notable feature being Constitution Hill. My in-laws live in Swansea, whenever we visit them [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Is it goodbye to the Bolinas Ridge?
On Thursday morning the Tricross had no air in the back tyre (explaining the effort I had to put in on Wednesday night), so I swapped to the Bolinas Ridge to get to work. I’d had to do this earlier in the week too (Tricross front flat). It could all be a set-up problem, but [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )How to make hills harder
It’s nearly properly summer now, so I’ve decided to try and get a mid-week ride for the sake of riding in. Hopefully this will stop me from getting to Sunday with most of my Garmin Connect weekly goal still to do. So, I signed up to Map My Ride (Bikely is too unreliable now) and planned [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Whittlesea to Milton
Yesterday I did my first ‘get the train somewhere and cycle back’ ride since I moved to Cambridge, from Whittlesea (last stop before Peterborough, so avoiding urban roads) to Milton (village on the north edge of Cambridge with a nice cafe, always good to end rides at). The route is here, on Garmin Connect. Planning [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Bad knee week
I’ve had a slightly dodgy right knee for a couple of years now. It doesn’t give me day to day problems, but if I try to put too much force on the pedals I can ‘twinge’ it (the best description I have come up with) and then for the next few days it takes less [...]
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