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 )Last big ride of the year :-(
…and it wasn’t really that big either. 60km, route here. Fen Ditton – Stow-cum-Quy – Six Mile Bottom – West Wratting – Weston Colville – Carlton – Brinkley – Westley Bottom – Swaffham Bulbeck – Bottisham – Stow-cum-Quy – Fen Ditton. For round here it was hilly (365m climb according to Bikely), and the wind [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Sunday random ride
Fen Ditton – Horningsea – Waterbeach – Milton – Landbeach – Cottenham – Westwick – Oakington – Longstanton – (oops) Willingham – Over – Swavesey – Fen Drayton – (not Fen Stanton) – Fen Drayton – Swavesey – Longstanton – Oakington – Histon – Impington – Milton – Landbeach – WaterBeach – Horningsea – Fen [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Commuter Camaraderie
On my usual commute there are four or five people I regularly pass going the other way. I usually shout ‘morning’ and wave, and they do the same back. It does seem odd sometimes to regularly interact with so many people in such a limited way, but I think it makes the day a little [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Sometimes it’s good to slow down
I’m still a little under the weather and choosing to stay off the bike, which is making a cycling blog a bit pointless, but walking to work is letting me see things that I would have missed if I’d been cycling. Yesterday, walking home through Milton Country Park at dusk, a Muntjac deer wandered across [...]
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