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 …
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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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 …
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