Oh my it’s May! – Closing Out April

Well another 09 month down, damn they’re going quick this year…. that’ll be my age then. This month according to the little computer I have done…. err well i dunno because due to a sudden infliction of sausage fingerness yesterday I reset my cycle computer for the month so the only thing I know is [...]

Broken Bits…… Again!

Oh Dear! My plan of having incident repair free commuting appears to have taken a walk down the proverbial swannie! [gone down the toilet for those not speaking yorkshire.... heathens!] There has been in interesting sound developing at the back of the Langster and it became louder and louder to the point it is now [...]

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: 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 [...]

Working for it: SS review a few days on

My thoughts on the bike at the moment break down into 2 parts. Positive + The single speed-ness,  A couple of time on the commute this morning I made movements to change gear, Strange that I was on a road bike reaching for non existent mountain biking shifters. After chuckling to my self for a [...]

New Bike 1st ride review.

It’s very plush, I’ve put my mountain biking mud guards on to keep me dry and clean and i’ve added specialized red bar phat to stop my hands freezing to the gorgeous [now well protected] track drop bars. The track bars will take some getting used to I think as they have a different shape [...]

More broken bits.

Not the blog…. my ever breaking bike. Now both my wheels have had it, I’m on the bus to and from college today which is disappointing. My current bike issues are: Rear rim had it, will not maintain it’s shape, 1/2 the spokes are bending and nearly all the eyelets are falling out. Front Hub [...]

Being a Gorilla Cyclist

As a follow on thought from yesterdays post: My problem is that I want to have my cake and eat it, I want to use cycle lanes when it’s more convinient for me to do so and I want to use the road, pavement, bridleways, foot paths I want it all! I love the feeling [...]

Ghettoisation : Riders Writing Cycle

Riders Writing Cycle Topic 2  Concerning the ghettoisation of riders:  for our road/commuters:  Dedicated bike lanes protecting you from cagers or creating cyclists as 2nd class road users? Nice one Al….now I’ve got to think…..mmmmm For those who don’t know [i didn't] Ghettoisation is defined as: To confine (someone or something) to a particular area or [...]

Snowy ride

Hey, The commute today was very steady, slow and steady to stay upright, it is now cold enough for all the snow to have frozen, so on a snowy frozen day which way should I go to work? The clear gritted road way? Hill of Death & pain slippy back road way? Come on which [...]