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This was my first attempt at a mass participation ride, and my first completion of a long distance ride (the other attempt was a badly thought out attempt to ride to Aberystwyth from Birmingham on an overloaded Brompton overnight) Having bought a lovely Thorn touring bike with the sole purpose of doing something very silly […]
The IAM today published a press release talking about the number of cyclists who admit to running red lights. The data used was taken from a self selected online poll, not a truly proper survey and performed by a marketing and PR department rather than a mathematician or statistician. I make that comment because they got their […]
I’ve just got back from my second ever Critical Mass… and I came home early. When I arrived at the cathedral I was a little bit excited to see so many bikes, all shapes, sizes and types.  Sure there were a few with clearly broken brakes but it’s summer everyone should be allowed to ride in the […]
This morning when I stepped on my scales the reading was dead on 100KG. Whoop!! Apparently according to another blog post in November I now need to buy some clothes from Howies. Â To be fair, I think I might wait a little longer and hold out for the single speed bicycle I promised myself when […]