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.
December 21, 2008 – 10:43 pm
The Buxton loop plan was put on hold as one of our number only had a short ride window. So a late afternoon ride from Hayfield to Lantern Pike via Snake Path was decided upon.
For the first time I cleared the start of the climb from the road at Hayfield towards the kissing gates [...]
December 20, 2008 – 9:39 pm
Were did all this liquid come from? A very wet and boggy off road run this evening - around 40 minutes and not pushing it as saving myself for a geared ride around Buxton tomorrow.
‘orrid feet
December 9, 2008 – 10:26 pm
Very cold, off-road run this evening. There was a really thick patchy mist which seemed to linked to the faster parts of the river - never seen that before. I also learnt that running tights (Nike Dri-fit Fiament tights) are a definite improvement on wearing shorts when -4 degrees and worth 25 English [...]
December 7, 2008 – 10:11 pm
Short-ish icy ride on the iO - highlight of which was ‘crashing’ on black ice whilst climbing slowly and what I thought to be cautiously on a road section. I lay in the road for a few seconds trying to work out if everything was intact as I came down hard considering I was [...]