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 )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 )Boycotts and temptations
Grr. I’m at the point where I’m thinking about getting a new bike, probably at the start of next spring. I currently have a Mountain Bike that I’ve grown to like less because I have a cyclo-cross bike that I really like (even though I never take either off road). So I think the next [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Rim hunting mistakes
I have a new rim on the back wheel of the Tricross now. It’s a Mavic CSP22 replacing the AlexRims ACE19. Despite digging around various on-line bike shops and manufacturers sites I went for the wheel that was on this years model of Tricross. I’d already looked it up and discovered it was narrower (622×15 [...]
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 [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Less traffic, more idiots
I was aiming for a really fast commute today, travelling both ways without luggage. I cocked up the journey to work by forgetting my lunch and having to turn back to fetch it. I managed to get the Landbeach extension to the route in both ways today, fighting against the wind in the morning but [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )A good commute spoiled
Some might argue that there’s no such thing as a good commute, but my ride home today was so close to just being a good ride rather than an essential part of the working day. The days are getting longer so it’s still light when I get home now (just), no more trying to block [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )A couple of noteworthy tw@15
So, on Thursday, I did the ultimate evil cycling nasty to motorists. I stayed in the lane I was supposed to be in while going up a hill, rather than go in to the little gap between the white line painted along the edge of the road, and the kerb. I can’t believe that I [...]
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