It was time for another CycleChat forum ride and for once, it wasn’t starting from Hebden Bridge. Forum member Fluffy wanted to get his first half-century ride in and a group of us agreed to ride with him to keep him company…
Bill called in and we were sitting around and having a good old moan about the rain over the past month and how little cycling we’d been doing as a result, then, suddenly, the clouds parted and at last we got some sunshine. We sprang into action…
It was no use – I spent a few hours working away at the computer after my stroll earlier today, but I still felt restless. I had too much nervous energy and needed to burn some of it off so I got my road bike out and set off to do a quick blast over [...]
Bill had called round for a mug of tea but the sun was shining and we decided it would be better to get out on the bikes for a while, rather than just lazing about chatting so he went off to get his bike and I got mine ready for the ride. I was concerned [...]
Bill came round yesterday, keen to get a little ride in. We had wind and sunny spells, but rain was forecast for about 4:00 pm. He decided to take a chance but I stayed at home. I saw him later and he told me that he’d been caught in heavy rain at Blackstone Edge and [...]
My Basso has been out of action with worn wheel bearings and the nuts that I needed to undo to service the hub were rusted up. I couldn’t get them undone with my cheap flexy cone spanners so it looked as though I’d have to take the wheels to my local bike shop to get [...]
I did a very short MTB ride today. Instead of a power-walk up to Heptonstall to meet Lisa for a coffee, for a change I decided to ride up on my mountain bike.
It was another nice sunny day, though it turned out to be windier than expected. My road bikes are currently out of action awaiting replacement wheel bearings (and probably new cones) so it was a good opportunity to ride my MTB again. I haven’t been doing enough off-road riding this past couple of years. I [...]