For years now most of my road based excursions seem to naturally fall around the 50 - 70km distance mark. Not sure why, it just seems to be the distance that most of my regular riding loops from my home fall around. I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in this, most of us have our …
Continue reading Unlocking the secret sauce for long rides….
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 …
Continue reading Spring Tune-Up: Rebuilding My Old Road Bike
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 …
I was feeling quite good for once as I crested the last rise on the trail and began the loop back to the trail centre car park, this was a section I knew well - flowing, undulating and fast it was a blast all the way back to the sanctuary of the trail head café …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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
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