August it turned out was a bumper month for riding - indoors and out, on and off road, I managed to twiddle my cranks through the full range of cycling experiences ...... oh, and I've bought another bike sight unseen off eBay again! First as always the stats. The total distance ridden was a pretty …
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My Month on Bikes – July
July totals are a bit down, just 211.59km in total last month, but there are a couple of reasons honestly! Firstly July was firmly the first month of the year when the off road days in the saddle overtook the thin tyre adventures. Now days on the MTB vs on the road are always lower …
All Change On The MTB Front
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 …
Unlocking the secret sauce for long rides….
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 Anatomy of a Crash
I was talking to a fellow riding mate in the pub the other night and during our wide ranging discussion on life, riding and the woes of our respective children one of the subjects we touched on was the occasional instances where the inadvertent separation of bicycle and rider occur, and during this discussion I …
The Declining Cyclist 