The basis for riding heaven? So, for those that read my last missive, here is the result of much internet auction site searching in my quest to replicate the unobtainable Santa Cruz dream machine that realigned my Mountain biking expectations last time out. It’s a 2019 Cotic Rocket frameset and this will be the basis …
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Lockdown KOM Hunting – Suddenly after all these years I’m feeling competitive again …..
A surprise appearance on a Strava leaderboard leads to a worrying obsession
Winter is Coming….
Cometh the winter, cometh the season to plot how to spend whatever disposable income and free time you can seek past your significant other in the pursuit of next summers cycling goals. For most cyclists this is a pretty clear nivarna - we all want to be faster, look cooler (and slimmer!) and perhaps most …
A Tale of Two Rides. (Part 1)
It's been a busy couple of days in Declining Cyclist land. One might almost think I was thinking of taking my riding seriously again! Two days running I've put a significant ride in both in and out of doors. I'll give you a quick run down, I know you're all waiting with bated breath and …
Zwift -Half a Million Users Can’t beWrong?
I'd been tracking the rider in front for over a mile. As we started the climb they were hovering tantalisingly out of reach just up the road. As the gradient hit over seven percent and my frantic clicking of my right hand shifter met its end stop I could see them at the edge of …
Bad Times, Bad Rides :-(
Ever had a ride when you get home and wish you hadn't bothered? One when you've spent almost the entire ride wondering if fishing might actually be the sport for you and how much a decent rod and reel would cost? Well I did yesterday. I've had such rides before and I'm sure I'll have …
Spring has Sprung at last – Time to ride mes amis……..
So long time to blog, and seeing as the last one was written around the subject of Fish Keeping, it's even longer since I put both middle fingers to keyboard on the subject of bikes and the riding there of. Well mea culpa (whatever that means), sorry, I know I've been letting down my loyal …
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The Link Between Marine Fishkeeping and Cycling
Well, firstly let me say there really isn't one. This is just an exercise in finding excuses for the lack of recent cycling in my life, but having thought about it while I've been typing this first sentence I think my semi-fertile grey matter may have conjured up a very tenuous connection that I can …
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The Hopeless Quest for Cycling Nirvana via eBay and Mindless Optimism
Theres a well-known cycling adage that the formula for the perfect number of bikes for a cyclist to own is n+1 where 'n' equals the number of bikes a rider owns at any given time. The implication that a true cyclist is always thinking about the next bike they're going to buy as they toil …
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Self Build Satisfaction – ‘Built not Bought’
'Built not Bought' is a tag line and sticker now currently popular on the modified car scene. Displaying one on the back window or bumper of ones 'ride' proclaims to the world at large (or at least the tiny proportion of it that actually cares) that those ill-advised styling touches and that badly installed exhaust …
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The Declining Cyclist 