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I’m off work ill. Let’s just say that I’m not farting with confidence…

Consequently, I am very bored. So, I took some photos of my bike and stuck them on Singletrack.

Gusty winds and ’sticky’ trails made for slow going and even downhills hard work. I decided to give up on trying to complete the full 50km.

Distance: 54 miles (87 km)
Climbing: 4948 feet
Surface: On- and off-road (20 miles on, 14 miles off, 20 miles on)
Time: 7 hours
Weather: Windy and wet under-tyre
Bike: Inbred Singlespeed (32:16, with […]

I’m off work next week, which means no little-and-often bike riding. It does, however, give me a chance to go out for a longer ride. I’m planning on riding to Hamsterley and doing 50km on the fireroads (Hamsterley Hill Rush) and then riding back again.

It’s 114km all in and took me 8 hours […]

In the whole of January and February last year I rode 246 miles. So far this year, I have ridden 262. That means, on Friday last week I passed last year’s total for January and February, 3 weeks earlier than least year.

Looking at the numbers (yes, there’s a spreadsheet), it should be possible […]

I’m going to have to add Ben Saunders’ site to my feed reader. I had it bookmarked on my old laptop and it was one of the sites I checked weekly.

There are so many things just from the last few posts that I wanted to link to, or requote here.

“We are richer now, but […]

There’s a scary difference between the Arctic sea ice cover on my second birthday and my thirtieth birthday.

[via Kottke, via Ben Saunders]

On July 19th, I will be riding my bike in 8.4 mile circles for 12 hours. For fun.

Hit The North

Update: I’m in