Wildlife and puncture season
A couple of days ago, heading to work. It was a slightly misty morning, but humid enough for the moisture to keep condensing on my wheel rims and impair my braking. I was travelling slower than I would have liked, purely so I could stop if I needed to (yes, I should sort out my [...]
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 )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 )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 )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 )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 [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )This weeks’ bad drivers (and bike riders)
This week, commuting to work, I’ve had 2 and a half bad drivers. Including one near miss. The first one and a half were on Wednesday morning in Waterbeach. There are normally two rows of parked cars along the road between Waterbeach station and the church (I think they are the unofficial ‘park and ride’). [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Making the target, against the wind
After yesterday I had 25km left to make the weekly Garmin Connect goal. I was however knackered this morning. Partly, possibly, for a moderate length of ride. Partly from the other half having a boat race to get to and being up at 4:00am this morning. It rained buckets overnight, and was very windy still when I [...]
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