Today I’m quite achey after Saturday morning’s excursion to the top of Alderley Edge . Although the ride to the base of the climb was fairly easy the actual mile of steep ascent defeated me as well as the chain on Fliss’ bike. By the time we got up to the Wizard Coffee shop we [...]
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Start of Spring?
In many ways February has been a bit of bumpy month, the sort when your never quite sure if your going to hit take-off speed for the year. Luckily it’s a short month and this morning I cycled out into bright sunshine on my new bike. Since the death of my old bike I’ve been [...]
The power of the wheel
I suffered bike death last night on the way home. Thankfully the mechanical failure (which I heard) occurred about 1/2 a mile away from the house so I didn’t have too far to push the bike. I’m not sure what failed but the rear wheel had a slightly eccentric rotation in the morning. After something [...]
A few inches more
I adjusted the seat on my bike by a couple of inches over the weekend. I now have to come off my seat when I stop (or lean fetchingly against a support) but it certainly makes delivering power to the peddles easier. This as it turns out was useful for the main adventure of the [...]