I’ve got really bad at blogging regularly.
I got a ‘new’ bike - a knackered black Coventry Eagle Nevada that Andrew had sat in his garage. A little TLC truned it into a shonky singlepeed that’ll be fine as a spare (possible main) commuter bike. Possibly, it’ll end up fixed and odd-handlebarred. (Older […]
When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.
—Arthur Conan Doyle
From Ben Saunders’ blog
Today at work I was watching video footage of myself, which has been sent out to all ICT teaching departments. When I got home, there was an answerphone message from the local radio station asking to speak to me about news that Darlington has been awarded a grant as a Cycling Demonstration town. […]
I’m getting too many spam comments here (which you don’t usually get to see, because they’re held in a moderation section from which I delete them) so I’m ramping up the spam protection; comments which look like spam, smell like spam or taste like spam are spam and will get deleted automagically. Avoid using […]
Another ride of my local loop yesterday, though I tweaked it a bit to have a look at a new route just to the north of the one to Brafferton that I usually take; the bridleway from East Ketton to Brafferton. The first little bit was just along field edges, but from the stream […]
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I love maps. I’m going to watch last night’s Map Man before I go to bed and Andrew is lending me a DVD of the whole series once it’s finished and he gets it off Sky+. Anyway, Radical Cartography has some cool maps. I might make maps with The Small One […]
I rode my usual local loop today, minus the little mini-loop at the top, because I was short on time. Went round with my little brother, so took it fairly easy. The trails are all in amazingly good condition still, Darlington bridleways are usually horrible mud fests, but they seem really dry still.
Today was the first morning that I’ve had to have light on my bike for the ride to work. Looking outside, it looks like I’ll have them on for on the way home too. Winter draws on.
I have a flouro waistcoat for riding to/from work now. Sarah saw me out the window […]
When I first started using this domain name it was because I’d decided I wanted a slightly more anonymous blog, because my students had found my old site way too easily and, while there wasn’t anything dodgy on my site, it linked to some sites that linked to some dodgier stuff.
So, I created this site, […]
Well, my second ever cyclo cross race went well, apart from an horendous stitch for a couple of laps. The weather was much nicer than last year; no horrible headwind to contend with this time.
I have no idea how many laps I did, or even if I officially finished. I passed the finish […]