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I finally got round to upgrading the mudguards on my Basso from the Mk1 Crud Roadracers to the new Mk2 version. I have now updated my review – see Crud Roadracer Mk2 Mudguards (Fenders) Review.

We had almost biblical-scale rain and flooding here yesterday, but today – back to lovely sunny conditions! I had loads of things to do on the computer but I couldn’t waste the whole day indoors so, late in the afternoon I got on my bike and took my camera on a little tour of the [...]

Today, it was time for the annual Season of Mists audax event from Hebden Bridge. Season of Mists 2009 went pretty well, but I knew that there would be problems this year because my fitness is well down and my weight is well up. What I hadn’t anticipated was that my lack of fitness didn’t [...]

It has been 23 days since I last rode a bicycle. I can’t use the broken wheel on my Basso as an excuse because my mountain bike was okay but I didn’t ride that either. I had my wheel repaired but I still didn’t ride. Okay, I was ill for a while, but I’ve let [...]

Here is a summary of what exercise I got during a week in Coventry…

[I've retro-posted this because I've been ill and distracted since coming back from a week 'down south'] Time for more family visits over the coming week… I set off from Hebden Bridge this morning with a large rucksack on my back and I walked to HB station for an uneventful train journey to Manchester. There [...]

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…