Sorry for the radio silence but it's been a difficult couple of months in the decliningcyclist multiverse. The stats are simple, across the last two months of 2025 I only rode a measly 127.78km all of which were indoors spread across 5 rides on Zwift. In my defence there were a couple of reasons for …
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Making the Giant TCR Great Again!
Ok, so with the rather less than shiny new purchase clamped into the work stand it was time to assess exactly what I had here - was it the bargain of the century or a total disaster of a money pit which was going to cost me far to much to fix? The truth as …
Yes, I’ve bought another melon off eBay…..
It would seem I simply just can't help myself. Literally as soon as I've got a little bit of spare cash I'm straight on the internet looking for another 'bargain' buy that I just have to impulsively purchase straight away. You see after the great mountain bike swapathon a few months back when the dust …
Spring Tune-Up: Rebuilding My Old Road Bike
Way back last October when I was waxing lyrically about how buying the new Zwift Ride indoor trainer was going to revolutionise my winter training I mentioned that one of the side benefits was going to be taking the chance over the winter off season finally tackle the long overdue rebuild of my Sabbath Silk …
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My Month on Bikes – April
Stats first - Total distance ridden in April was 270.78km. Off road was 97.53km and on road was 173.25km. Zwift didn't get a look in last month. Well April was a month of two halves. It started off strong on the 2nd of April with the best day of Mountain Biking I'd had for ages …
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 …
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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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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