So total stats for March - Total distance ridden - 264.59km, most of which was in the first half of the month when I had some time off work and the weather was being uncharacteristically benign for this time of year. Unfortunately the second half of March wasn't so productive on the riding front after …
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My Month On Bikes – February
So did I manage to maintain my strong start to the year as we rolled into February? Well kind of I think.... lets start with the stats :- 202.9 km ridden in total, of that figure 131.9km were sweating away in my back room on Zwift, and the other 71km were all off road on …
Oops I did it again ……
Boredom and Facebook marketplace are dangerous bed fellows. One minute your idly scrolling through the seemingly endless adverts for tools that look like they've been stolen out of the back of some poor sod's work van interspersed with pictures of furniture from the house that taste forgot , and then you see it - the …
My Month On Bikes – January
One of my new years resolutions was to endeavour to post more regularly on this site and in an effort not to disappoint myself by failing at the first hurdle I've made the momentous decision to try and post a monthly update on what's been happening on the two wheeled front. Hopefully this may have …
Falling Back In Love With a Bike – it’s never too late to save a relationship.
A few months ago I wrote a heartfelt post on my relationship breakdown with my mountain bike. I was feeling very low and things were very bad between us, but after a lot of soul searching I'd realised the fault was 98% mine and if things were going to have any chance of working out …
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Finally My Poor Life Choices have Come Home To Roost.
At the end of the last blog post I alluded to a bit of a medical whoopsie that's going to affect not just my riding but pretty much most aspects of my life moving forward, and I really have nobody to blame but myself. My long standing addiction to Coke has entirely predictably eventually had …
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Its Time For Those ‘What Will The New Year Bring?’ Musings…….
First a spot of admin if I may, after faffing around on the free loading version of WordPress for almost 10 years I've finally moved to a properly hosted website hence the much snappier web address for The Declining Cyclist multiverse that probably nobody will notice, its simply now http://www.thedecliningcyclist.com . This move to a …
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When a relationship breaks down – Falling out of love with your bike :-(
There often comes a tipping point in our relationships. Sometimes you just know deep down that things just haven't been right between you for awhile, and then it just takes a little nudge to plunge that interpersonal dynamic in full blown crisis mode. Questions abound, chasing each other around in an endless and remorseless loop …
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The Anatomy of a Crash
I was talking to a fellow riding mate in the pub the other night and during our wide ranging discussion on life, riding and the woes of our respective children one of the subjects we touched on was the occasional instances where the inadvertent separation of bicycle and rider occur, and during this discussion I …
The Wheels From China go round and round …… 9Velo Carbon Wheelset – a great bang for buck upgrade?
I’d like to start by saying that now I’ve typed that title out I’ve committed myself a nursery rhyme ear worm from hell for the rest of the day. Right, so this year for the first time in my professional working career I’ve been in receipt of a modest pay bonus from my employer. In …
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