Mayday, Mayday, We’re going down!

[Note from Munky: Nasty pictures of injuries ahead if squimish look away now] I am once again humbled by the trail gods, I have clearly not been paying them enough attention. Maybe because I have been riding on the road so much they thought that I must be punished, Maybe it is because they have [...]

Closing out March

Today I needed to go pick up a parcel from the post office, the card “postie had left stated that the parcel was not in my town but the next, so I set off early and rode out my college route there upon arrival I was informed that said parcel was not there but in [...]

Stretch it out

This mornings ride wasn’t quite 30 miles but it felt like it thanks to a fantastic 17mph headwind! [i checked it was that hard] Ride info: Distance: 21.22 Time: 1:30 Ascent: 505ft Descent: 575ft Average Speed: 14.15 mph Calories burned: 1172 The 1st part of the ride was great and I felt strong and was [...]

Single Speed Fit

I’ve been cycling for about two and a half years now in the cycling regularly / being addicted to it sort of way. I’ve worked hard to get fit and thought that I had fairly strong muscular legs…. apparently not. My legs have under gone some sort of transformation, they’ve changed in a month from [...]

Hard week in the saddle,

I think it’s because I’ve seen significant improvement in my strength and fitness on the Langster that I feel like I’m training for something, but I’m not, should I? Yesterdays ride to and from college was just as fast as the week before but the return journey home was 2miles longer than the week before! [...]

RWC: Getting bums on saddles. A political plan!

How do we get the weekend warriors to become winter hard core commuters and how do we get the cagers to become any sort of cycling commuters, because once they start they’ll get hooked as we all have done and the only problem will be the mad silly commuter bike races everywhere every morning and [...]

1st college commute for the Langster

Well we had a good blast to college and back yesterday shaving 15 minutes off my commute time. I knew the mountain bike was slower but a whole 5mph slower as an average speed! I followed the same route as last time and it was amazing how quickly the ride went by, there were a [...]

RWC: Seven Deadly Sins of Cycling

Lust (Latin, luxuria) To covert thy neighbors bike, to stand with your mates in the LBS and drool collectively over the new shiny thing, To be so consumed by the thought of the bike that the sale of non essential / redundant body parts sound like a reasonable option in order to procure the bike [...]

Holiday

Dearest Readers, I am currently taking a weeks leave to spend time with the family, on the road, on the trails and generally recharge….. although i’m feeling pretty tired now after a 300miles behind the wheel day. I have had some good time on the MTB and planning a long road ride with Al’s latest [...]

New Wheels + Wife Commuting

Last night I put together all the parts required to make the new wheels work on the bike and after a bit of fettling to get all the mud, grass and various other bits of horrid black stuff off the rotars and cassette I have new non-bending no longer falling apart wheels! Yippee! They do [...]