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Keeping The Wheels Turning

This is an observation made on another site on the web, unfortunately I can’t remember the address. “If you ask a motorist if they would like to see more cars on the road, the answer is almost always NO” “If you ask a cyclist if they would like to see more bicycles on the road, […]

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Bike Trashed, Feeling Blue

After the joy of getting the hybrid dew deluxe back on the road after it’s spell without a rear wheel; disaster struck. Somehow on the way home from the remembrance service yesterday the rear derailleur committed suicide and fed itself round the cassette and sheared the hanger. Unfortunately the derailleur also tore itself in half […]

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WooHoo Back On The Bike Again

After a short break from work due to quite a nasty chest cold, and having some repairs made to the bike.  I cycled to work this morning, quite comfortably and easily the new rear wheel giving me no problems whatsoever. I worked out that the previous rear wheel must have travelled somewhere in the region […]

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Summer Cyclists

With the daylight hours getting longer and the weather better with them, more and more cyclists seem to be joining me on my morning commute. So many to the extent that I was stuck in a traffic jam on the towpath last week.  I congratulate them on their effort and yes it is really great […]

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Fog! Oh How I Hate Fog

When I managed to rouse myself this morning I looked out the window to see the cyclists nightmare, FOG. Motorists don’t look where they are going in good visability, let alone when they can’t see very far. I tooled up with no less that four blinky lights to try and improve my chances of survival. […]