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 …
Continue reading Falling Back In Love With a Bike – it’s never too late to save a relationship.
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 …
Continue reading Finally My Poor Life Choices have Come Home To Roost.
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 …
Continue reading Its Time For Those ‘What Will The New Year Bring?’ Musings…….
Time for an update on my little wheeled slice of British quirkiness my Moulton TSR22. I've clocked up a pretty decent mileage on the bike over the summer and Autumn, so a few months down the line am I still loving the ride, or are the compromises in the design starting to take the initial …
Continue reading Of Small Wheels and Weird Frame Design Part 2
What do two Americans, two Brits, one Italian and one German have in common? well there may certainly be other random things that link this particular demographic, but last week we were all locked in a no holds bared struggle over the mid pack placing's in a Cat C Zwift race the results of which …
If you asked a random sample of people what the first thing that comes to mind is when you mention the weather in these sceptered isles I'm 99% sure the answer would be rain. There's no getting away from the fact that if you live in the UK and you ride a bike then you …
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 …
Continue reading When a relationship breaks down – Falling out of love with your bike 😦
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 …
So this is how the worlds scruffiest Moulton Mini has looked for the last few months, has it been used loads? no, but when it has been called into action from the depths of the garage its transported me around my locality without complaint and never failed to put a smile on my face. Time …
Continue reading Moulton Mini Part 3 – Less is sometimes more
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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