I'll cut right to the chase, I've replaced my full suspension Mountain Bike with a new ride. Well......I say new but it’s actually older than the bike it replaces, it's certainly had a much harder life and the specification is broadly the same. The path to getting it into my possession and ready to ride …
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My Month on Bikes – June
Stats first because everyone loves a good statistic or two, last month I managed a total of 372.20km, of which 295.91km was outdoors and for the second month running this was all on road and mostly on the Sabbath. The remaining 76.29 km were racked up going nowhere fast sweating like an overheated pisshead in …
My Month on Bikes – May
Five months of 2025 down and unsurprisingly seeing as the UK weather was pretty sunny last month May was my biggest riding month of the year, not because I managed a lot more riding days, but because when I did get out on the bike I was out for longer and rode further. As detailed …
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 …
When a ride just starts to come together……
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 …
My Month on Bikes – March
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 …
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 …
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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The Declining Cyclist 