An amateurish foray into B'cycling, Bike Touring and General Bikery
On my day off, Monday 3rd June 2019 I resolved to overcome the biggest goal I had set myself ever since getting into b’cycling proper: A bike ride to Salisbury to visit my Mum n’ Dad. Unsure if I would make the distance I would go at a gentle pace with my friend Sophie on …
Continue reading “Le Grand Tour de Wiltshire (Bristol to Salisbury & back)”
#1 Chew Stoke The day after my epiphany to Chew Magna I purchased 1x lycra top, 1x lycra leggings and 1x lycra shorts. An evening ride: my Long Ride No. 2 was a bit further south to the village of Chew Stoke. Bonus road debris smeared across my sweaty brow. The following Tuesday I cycled …
Continue reading “Adding distance: A brief overview of 5x ever increasing b’cycle rides”
Having returned from a marvellous confidence-boosting trip to Stuttgart and having spent many £’s on my lovely bike I was incentivised to ride more than my commute to work. On the very next weekend, following my return from Germany I looked on the map and searched for somewhere to visit that was nearly exactly 1 …
For my 39th birthday I arranged a road trip to Stuttgart over a long weekend in early May. I planned to drive with my bike from Bristol in the UK all the way to Stuttgart in Germany, via an overnight stay in Calais, France. Many exciting firsts were anticipated: First time on the EuroTunnel Car …
Continue reading “B’cycling in Stuttgart // Radfahren in Stuttgart!”
Having done a few longer rides in the ~90km range I decided it was time to learn some of the basics of B’cycle maintenance. I enrolled in 2x Bristol workshops, one was a free 1x hour workshop run by Cycle Republic and the second was a 3x hour affair run by The Bristol Bike Project. …
Continue reading “A tale of 2x B’cycle Maintenance Workshops”
Ride as much or as little, as long or as short as you feel. But ride.— Eddy Merckx. Prologue Between 1x brief b’cycle around a large Belgrade lake in 2009 and a hired b’cycle to Saltford (near Bath) in 2015; I b’cycled precisely 0x times. The trip to Saltford triggered inside me a desire to …
The blogger sports his new casquette Sitting here, staring at a screen, sipping coffee and trying to conjure up words. This is a mental outlay for a 2019-based human stuck between capitalism, “brexit”, Moneyland and middle age. In an attempt to break free of the incessant bullshit, I jump upon my b’cycle and ride. For …
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