Today’s ride was supposed to include miscellaneous other members of the CycleChat forum but one by one they dropped out. I’ve obviously lost my magic touch… Never mind – Buddy Bill is still here at the end of his long summer break in the UK and he volunteered to accompany me for a little tour [...]
I wanted to get a ride in this afternoon, but I left it a bit late so it had to be a short one. I didn’t fancy the usual Cragg Vale loop so I decided to do one that I haven’t done for a while. It’s only 16 miles (26 km) but it packs in [...]
Today, I’d arranged to tackle the Mary Towneley Loop with 3 fellow members of the CycleChat forum – Martin (goodspeed), Jon (RedBike), and Shaun (shauncollier). I’ve met Martin several times before, but this would be my first ride with Jon and Shaun, both of whom intended to do the ride on singlespeed bikes. Rather them [...]
Monday 14th: Ma-and-back on bike (4.5 miles). Mate-and-back on foot (1.5 miles). Tuesday 15th: Ma-and-back on bike (4.5 miles). Wednesday 16th (today): Homecoming – To-and-from stations on bike (3 miles). Lisa came and met me from Hebden Bridge station and we called in at an Italian cafe in Hebden Bridge. We had coffees and shared [...]
It was an early start today. I was up at 05:45, and ate a big bowl of muesli and a banana to fuel me for what was to come. As part of my ongoing campaign to forget as many things as possible this week, I’d added my container of Maltodextrin (complex carbohydrate) powder to the [...]
I did two rides today – a short one to visit my mother (4.5 miles) and a longer one down to visit my younger sister in Towcester (38.5 miles).
It was a bit windy in Coventry today, but otherwise a nice day so I cycled from my sister’s house to visit my mother in her new ‘sheltered granny flat’. While up there I had to go and do some shopping for her so I decided to take her with me for a spin in [...]
If you are as disorganised and forgetful as me, then you probably already do – make a list that is, whenever you have important things to remember. Having done so, it is probably A Good Thing to read it afterwards and refer to it at regular intervals until you have done everything on the list. [...]