Tag Archives: Trek
Four Different Sorts of Rain
So, when you’re on a bicycle, there are four different sorts of rain…. I should add that when you’re not on a bike but perhaps sitting on the sofa watching TV in the warm and you see the rain on … Continue reading
A tale of two rides
It’s Spring! Everyone says so and the evidence was all there when I went for the first of a couple of really peachy longish bikes rides about ten days ago. There were lots of tweety birds in the lanes, small … Continue reading
Mainly fair with occasional rain blog – 2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 5,900 views in 2012. If every person who reached the … Continue reading
30 Days of Biking
Not totally sure why I signed up for this because I already cycle most days but having just come back to it after nearly three weeks off the bike, I felt it would be a Good Thing. Also, as cycling … Continue reading
Tedium and terror
A birthday is always a celebration of another year of survival and that celebration should involved something memorable; that’s my take on things anyway. This year, the options were: Boris-bike from Kew to the Globe to Tate Britain to Hyde … Continue reading
Today’s ride
I didn’t want to stop or need to stop on today’s ride but this was too good to miss on a perfect, windless sunny summer morning. A mallard made her way gently downstream with two … Continue reading
A Tale of Two Bikes
You wouldn’t think it would be hard to spend upwards of £500 on a light, nippy, flat-barred road bike, would you? I’m talking the kind of bike that you stick a rack on plus a pannier or two and maybe … Continue reading
Janh1: Mainly fair with occasional rain. 