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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Of Small Wheels and Weird Frame Design Part 2
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 …
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Zwift Racing – how to be competive with random strangers from all over the world from the comfort of your own home.
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 …
Zwift Ride – My Answer to the UK Winter
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 …
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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