Broken or Cracked Bicycle Cranks!
This is a Cyclists’ Safety Warning! *** Make sure that you regularly check the cranks on your bikes for damage *** (A crank breaking could cause a very serious accident, as I’m sure you can imagine …)
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The CycleChat ‘Flattish Seaside Century’!
A group of us wanted to get a long flattish ride in and Shaun (CycleChat: bromptonfb) had come up with the idea of riding to the seaside and back, taking in the flatlands of the Wyre and Fylde districts. I came up with a few suggestions and finally we came up with a route that [...]
Hilly Waddington Cafe Ride
It was time for another CycleChat Sunday ride to the Country Kitchen cafe in Waddington, but this time we were going out on a much hillier and more scenic route to Spring Wood, Whalley. (Hebden Bridge, Slack, Widdop, Haggate, Brierfield, Fence, Black Hill, Sabden, Spring Wood.) From there we would follow the same route as [...]
Face-planting Pedestrian!
It was a fine sunny day but I had spent too much time dithering about on the computer so I didn’t have time to do a long bicycle ride. I decided to do a short tour of the local hills with a couple of steep climbs to give my leg muscles something to think about!
A Cycle Ride To Lothersdale – ‘The Goose Eye Grovel’!
The sun was shining as I met up with some lads from the CycleChat forum this morning. Calum turned out for the first time since last November. By rights, he should have been too unfit to do today’s tough hilly ride, but he’s only 21 – so, no problem!. Shaun was up for another ride. [...]
Waddington Road Ride With New Chaps
A bunch of us did a ride to Waddington a month ago and we decided to do a repeat of the 57-miler today. It’s a relatively easy route by our hilly northern standards, so it is a nice ride to do at this time of year to help build fitness, and get us out when [...]
Trawden Road Ride – Spring is Almost Here!
So, the weather forecasts were right! Today was a fine sunny day and the temperatures got up to about 14 degrees C, much warmer than the average for this time of year here. I had to get out on my bike and make the most of it. I’d contacted Shaun (CycleChat’s bromptonfb) and he agreed [...]
A Wet and Windy ‘Trauma of Trawden’ Road Ride
I got together with Shaun (CycleChat member bromptonfb) and Dave (CC: potsy) again today to do another road ride, a shorter one than last week’s but much hillier – a slightly modified version of my ‘Trauma of Trawden‘ route. Even with my lack of cycling recently, I wasn’t too worried by the hills or the [...]