The idiots are back
There have been a few windy days recently. In my opinion windy days bring out worse driving, I think the wind spooks them – like it would a horse or a cat: “Something is happening but I can’t tell what. Panic, panic! Rush, rush!” Today was quite windy, and I was out early enough to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Guided Bus Cycleway not quite as perfect as it first seemed
(There’s an exiting headline for you!) So after a couple of weeks using the busway to get some extra riding in I have a few grumbles, although they won’t stop me using it. One grumble is that on many of the bends the cyclepath drops to below the busway level, putting your eyes more or [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )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 )(My) slack maintenance grumble
So yesterday, good de-gunking then a new chain and jockey wheels on the Tricross. At the same time replace the inserts in the back brakes and re-adjust them. First off though, change the chain on the other halfs’ Fat Boy (after her bike shop tribulations). Slackness #1: I’d let both chains stretch by about 10%, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )A few bits
I bought one of those little £25 clip-on cameras last week with the intention of mounting it to the bike somewhere. I didn’t expect to get any exciting videos from it, but there might be something interesting and it’s only £25. It seems to have a very slow charge, and very high discharge rate though. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The kind that gives us all a bad name
Sorry, more moaning. He wasn’t the only person to annoy me on the way home. To be honest lots of people annoy me on the way home, it’s the rush hour – that special time of the day when everyone annoys everyone else because if they got home 10 seconds later they might miss a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Be A Cock On Your Way Home From Work Day
OK, pardon the swearing but it really felt like it today. I think I counted seven, in an 8 mile journey! Here they are (just getting this off my chest): Cock 1: Pulled out in front of me from a side road on the right while I was on the Science Park ring road, forcing [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )PENSIONERS!
It’s not the first time it’s happened, and it seems a popular spot for it (here). As I came home from work on Thursday, through Waterbeach, I was passed by a car that then slowed down as it entered the built up area. This meant I could fairly easily keep up with it, but was [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Catch up (again)
I’ve let more than a week go by again. Saturday last it looked like rain in the afternoon, so I extended the return journey from the papershop in the morning. This seems a good way to get a ride in and I’ll try and do it more often. I managed to come home from Milton [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Saturday morning paper shop ride
Last night I had 77km left to meet this weeks Garmin Connect goal. I normally do 22km to get the newspaper on a Saturday morning, and I expect to do 52km tomorrow with the other half (she’s only rowing once), which would leave me an annoying 3km short of the goal. The easiest seeming thing [...]
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