Category: Bikes
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Criminal
A friend of mine forwarded me an article from the BBC today, about James Martin apologising for forcing cyclists off the road. She thought the headline was funny, because my surname is Martin too. I can see her point, but this makes my blood boil. See, what James Martin is apologising for is deliberately using…
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Please release me
One thing I’m kind of not happy with about my current job is the bike parking. Or rather the lack of bike parking. The building has a car park and a tiny amount of bike parking, but apparently that’s for the law firm that own the building rather than those that rent space in it.…
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Easter riding
Easter Monday was an absolutely fantastic day! I’d actually be pretty happy with days like that in summer. Really. GG and I had a list of things we wanted to do over Easter, and going on a bike ride was one of them. We did go into Brighton by bike on Friday, but that didn’t…
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Spring Cleaning
My poor bike has made it through the winter without so much as a wipe down. Commuting along the undercliff walk with the chalk from the cliffs filling the puddles, being hit by sea spray regularly, rained on, and even out in the snow has left it looking a little mucky.
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Headless chicken
That turned into a properly busy and tiring weekend, with nothing planned! Whoops. Started on Saturday morning, when I was hoping to get down to the post office in Rottingdean to collect a missed parcel that was the new (full length) mudguards I’d ordered. I really needed to get them Saturday morning so I had…
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Waves
As your weather eye for Brighton, I can tell you that the previous post did not come true, and the wind (whilst quite bad enough, thank you) was not over 300 mph. Today the weather was entirely not what they predicted at all, in fact. Rather than being sunny and a howling gale, it was…
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Laden
There’s a lot of groceries in them there panniers. I love having the option of doing this. It makes the hills harder (I had to walk up the Ovingdean road again. Not the second hill though – I’m getting stronger) but beats either one of us driving to the nasty big Asda. Although I need…
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Slow bike
It seems that I am heading closer and closer to gaining admission to the slow bicycle movement. It used to be that I would try and shave minutes off my 12.5 mile commute home, or justify a slower ride by adding more miles. Now though, I’m more and more just enjoying the 5-6 mile ride.…
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And another one
Another puncture that is. Or two, to be more precise. Back tyre went flat as I was travelling past the Woodingdean cemetary. Aha! I thought. It may be blowing a howling gale and raining, but this time I have a spare inner tube with me! All will be fine… So I changed it. Got back…
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Bikes! Going fast!
We went to watch the World Cup cycling event up in the Manchester velodrome last weekend. We got tickets for the Sunday, which worked pretty well. Manchester is about 260 miles from here, so we drove up on the Saturday (hitting nasty traffic on the M25 and the M1 – no surprises there then) to…
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Geeks, cholera and bikes!
Feels like it’s been a long week already, but it hasn’t. I think I’m fighting off a bit of a cold thing – spent most of Wednesday asleep on the sofa in front of the fire (and yes, the fire is doing a great job of brightening up winter evenings and reducing the length of…
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Task failed
So, in response to the comment requesting photos I set off into this perfect morning under beautiful blue skies. And discovered my camera’s batteries were completely flat. And couldn’t find my phone in my bag. (Oddly it was right on the top there when I got to work.) So no pictures. <sigh> And naturally the…