April 10th 2020August 13th 2020 The year began with a dearth of any b’cyclery-related activity. Having moved home I had ridden the bike but once to transport it from old to new abode by March. I was out running a few times a week but had neglected the bicycle for far too long come April. …
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Lockdown Project: Project Bicycle
Thursday 14th May, lockdown day 50. Nearly two months into UK lockdown, and in need of something to occupy my considerable free time I bid on a “Fixed Gear Bicycle” on ebay, that was sitting at £27. I set a maximum bid of £50, and hoped for the best. Three days later, I won the …
2020 Update
Back in Feburary 2020 I moved to my own 1 bedroom flat having lived with a roomate and his rodents for nearly 3-and-a-half years. I needed my own space. Then my own space turned into my prison during the Pandemic. Thank fuck for my bicycle. I was out most days for my hour of exercise …
Bike Maintenance: “Day 1” at The Bristol Bike Project and a spending spree.
On Saturday 14th September 2019 I spent a marvelous day at The Bristol Bike Project on their “Day 1” course. I had already had a three hour “bike basics” course a couple of months ago, but this was to be a more intensive 6 hours. Learning more complicated tasks, including a full bike health check, …
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Attempt 2: Long Rides on “Consecutive” Days
After being struck down by mild, albeit self-induced malaise last weekend, I had failed in my lofty goal of 2x 33km(-ish) long rides. This weekend I was to make another attempt; with a Friday off I had three days of marvelous b’cycling related activities to look forward to. Friday 13th September, Ride #1 A glorious …
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Attempt 1: Long Rides on Consecutive Days
In order to build up some sort of tolerance to multiple day bike packing tours, I have started a training regime of weekend consecutive long rides. The first attempt was to be 2x 33km rides over Saturday & Sunday. I planned each ride on Komoot, with Ride #1 taking me North West of Bristol in …
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A return to the saddle
Having taken a few weeks, or perhaps months, off from long rides, today I managed to motivate myself into a 33km ride north of Bristol. Having not yet gone in a very Northerly direction I decided to plan my new regime based on this direction and a nice tidy third of a ton: I am …
2x abandoned rides have left me in a rut
Since the summer is now in full swing and the days are very hot, long rides have somewhat dropped off the agenda. My last attempt at breaking my metric ton duck came at the end of June on a cool, breezy Sunday. I was very motivated to do my first long ride in my new …
Cheap, or expensive gear?
Having very much bicycled on a budget, my main concern is buying cheap gear. Made by exploited, underpaid labour in a far away land and then flown or boated half-way across the world causing untold devastation and woe to poor planet Earth. For example my most recent purchases were a budget waterproof cycling jacket, casquette …
Summer Solstice & my First Foray into “Bike-packing”
On the longest day of the year I had a Romantic (with a capital ‘R’, right? Miranda?) notion of b’cycling out to a field and sleeping under the stars. As I had not yet been very due east east out of Bristol, I choose to do a shortish, albeit quite hilly cycle to Chippenham then …
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