Temptation
I popped in to Ben Haywards on the way home from work today (despite saying I wouldn’t) to get some inner tubes for the other half’s Fat Boy. Having recently found out that Ben Hayward are my local Sabbath dealer I had to first look around to see if they had anything in stock. There [...]
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 )Untimely rim death
So tomorrow I’m intending to cycle to Foxearth and Ballingdon to watch a couple of King of the Mountains points on stage 7 of the Tour or Britain 2010. This will be about a 140km round trip, and the most I’ve done in a single day. Last week, actually for a few weeks before that [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Cycling Sorted?
I don’t know how well it will work, but I’m going to give this a try http://www.cyclingsorted.org/. Cambridge only, but it should give people a say in what cycling facilities get improved. I hope it’s being advertised enough. I heard of it through Road.cc despite having taken part in other Cycle Cambridge things and giving [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Halo expiry
I’ll start with an odometer check. Tricross: 4414.6 miles, Bolinas Ridge: 4612.9 miles. A weekend or two back I was in Decathlon, this weekend I was in a LBS. Both times I looked at but didn’t buy new tyres for the Tricross. The Halo Twin rails I have on have had the rails completly worn [...]
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 )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 )Pub Lunch
On Sunday my other half arranged for us to go for Sunday Lunch in a pub in one of the nearby villages with some of her work mates. With most people (in the end all of them) cycling there. None of them were as serious a cyclist as me (and I’m ‘enthusiastic’ rather than ‘committed’), [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Ow, where did those extra 20 miles come from?
I drew a route that I intended to cycle on Bikely (I’m not linking because I’m getting fed up of Bikely crashing) and made a little metric conversion error. I intended to do around 60 miles, as a tester to see if it was worth me entering the Evans Ride It Peak District sportive, it’s [...]
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