January 24, 2009 – 10:34 pm
Total opposite of my last ride - out on the SS again for just over 2.5hours and felt really good.
I did a loop from Whalley Bridge to Buxton via Derbyshire Bridge, which I’ve not done singlespeed before. I thought there would be a few pushes as there are a couple of steep sections - [...]
January 22, 2009 – 10:34 pm
Tonights ride (SS) was pretty uneventful. I felt slow both up and down and I was all a bit rubbish really. I lay the blame firmly at been up at 5am this morning as I had to visit the hamlet of London.
January 18, 2009 – 1:55 pm
Picked up the singlespeed from Eighteen bikes on Saturday and headed out for a short ride around 5pm, it HAD been a clear, sunny winters day.
Five minutes into the ride it started to rain, an hour later we were in a full blown gale - although short it was the most difficult riding conditions, I’ve [...]
January 13, 2009 – 10:28 pm
Another short ride late afternoon/early evening (can’t seem to get out until dusk recently) on the Gary Fisher Ged.
Not so sure about yesterdays (totally unscientific) theory of riding a heavier biker will make you faster when out on the race/light bike. As I felt reasonably OK at the top of a climb which [...]
January 10, 2009 – 7:26 pm
After a slow run this morning (Significant Other slowing things down).
Decided at 3pm to get out for a quick ride, as the SS is still awaiting the brake lever to be returned from Magura (its leaking - 18 Bikes have kindly sent it over to them for the repair job). The Voodoo has [...]
January 8, 2009 – 10:30 pm
Back sooner than I thought!
Nice snowy run last night which gave me the excuse to try out a my new head torch from Alpkit.
The Gamma was a bit of an impulse buy - persuaded by some good reviews and very reasonable price of £12.50 (with batteries included!). The main beam is slightly brighter [...]
January 8, 2009 – 9:46 pm
Idiotically left my camera in the lake district - so no camera = no photos which equals no posts.
Back soon.