Sun + Show

It was lovely to be riding in this morning enjoying the warmth of the morning sunshine and the fresh greens and yellows of the fields. I stretched out the ride to a full 10miles rather than my usual 6-7miles and was feeling it by the time I arrived. I was all ready for a run [...]

Aiming for a Tonne!

I am really wanting to do a 100 mile ride. I don’t actually know why other than to see if I can do it. I’m thinking that it would be a good full day ride on the old singlespeed and i’m getting sort of prepared. It is pretty much 100 miles from my house to [...]

Cleats!!

I managed to lock myself out of the house last night so whilst I was sat in the garage I thought i’d attend to a couple of pressing issues. The Pain in my Arse! I have developed a whopper of a saddle sore through the changing of saddles, neglect and over heating! So to remedy [...]

MTB Tunes Vs Road Tunes

A bit revelation for you, I love music and depending on my mood it can be any kind of music, I go through seasons really for the past 6 months  – Year it has been rock & metal I am now transitioning into dance/trance/house music and I suspect it has something to do with the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

sub zero Again!!

The weather has lulled me into a false sense of security, It is once again freezing cold and everything is covered in frost, My legs (exposed) were posotively numb by the time I arrived at the office. [knocking off bank's look again] 10 minutes under a hot shower and 2 hot coffees haven’t managed to [...]

Sherwood Pines Ride = single track heaven!

It was the kids holiday week a couple of weeks ago and on the Monday all the family were planning to go meet friends, they just happened to be hitting the only trail centre for 100 miles so the wife suggested I take the bike and have a blast….err OK!  Upon arrival I unpacked the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]