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 )Nothing interesting to report
I moved house, hopefully I get to stay in this one for a while, but it does mean that I get to go a little further along the busy bit of the main road through our village every day on the way home from work. It’s one of those horrible roads where you either get [...]
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 )RTA
Well, that’s my first experience of being hit by a car. I was lucky, can’t see any injuries or damage right now. I don’t wish to try it again though. If I had to put the blame anywhere it would be the white van that was parked in the cycle lane, not the driver of [...]
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 )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 )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 )Two days of wind so far
It’s windy on the fens again. 25mph is what the regional forecast said, I really must get/find something that tells me what it is locally. The first half of each commute has been fantastic, then I get to turn around after crossing the river! This morning I managed to average 34km/h on the way up [...]
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