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Double success :-)

1 Comment Posted by on December 24, 2011

Wow, I am very impressed with SPA Cycles and the Post Office. As detailed in Neat solution I ordered two special brake bolts on 22nd December at about 11pm and they arrived this morning 24th December. Fantastic service, thanks to both of them! So I couldn’t resist fitting them I have wanted to fit mudguards to [...]

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This time last year I failed

1 Comment Posted by on December 24, 2011

Christmas Eve last year was the only time I drove the car for work within the boundaries of the Leicester North Circuit during my first year in the appointment. The problem is a 4pm Christmas Service at Rothley followed by a 5pm Christingle Service at Syston. According to Google Maps the distance is 3.8 miles [...]

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A gentler ride

2 Comments Posted by on April 30, 2011

After doing my own personal time trial for two evenings I went for a more gentle ride this evening. Turned out it was exactly 23 miles with 950 feet of climbing (oddly I descended over 980 feet but ended up at still at ground level when I got back home). My average speed was 15.1 [...]

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Puncture and cycle paths

17 Comments Posted by on March 28, 2011

It is no surprise that Leicester’s cycle paths have now achieved their main goal in life – that of causing me a puncture. As much of the surface is covered in glass it is a miracle that this is my first puncture since moving here in August. So sometime yesterday towards the end of my [...]

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Exhausted cycling leads to reflection on the A6

6 Comments Posted by on March 8, 2011

A combination of some busy days and working rather late meant that today I was exhausted, a pity then that it was busy with doing some training, a lunchtime meeting, a couple of errands and then running a pancake party for 60 people (plus in that I had to fit in the preparation for the [...]

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Leicestershire highway maintenance block cyclists again

Leave a Comment Posted by on February 8, 2011

Today they were replacing a sign on the A6 between the A46 and Rothley. So this being Leicestershire they completely blocked the shared pedestrian/cycle route for most of the day with no provision at all for pedestrians and cyclists. After all this is only a dual carriageway that is used as a racetrack and of [...]

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That light is spot on

3 Comments Posted by on January 4, 2011

Riding back from Rothley tonight I had this comment from a well equipped commuting cyclist (as in good lights looking like they were riding home from work at around 6pm). “That light is spot on” I was heading south about to join the A6 to ride along the separated cycle path. As there is only [...]

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Bullitt Cargobike Handling

3 Comments Posted by on January 4, 2011

When you ride a cargobike in the UK you gets lots of people commenting that they have never seen anything like it before. But the next comment or question is almost always related to “It must be difficult to ride”. I am started to get a bit worried about my cycling style (I don’t aspire to [...]

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Bike challenges for 2011

2 Comments Posted by on January 1, 2011

So the start of a really cool year (well at least as far as dates are concerned anyway. eg 1/1/11, 11/1/11, 9/10/11, & 11/11/11). What about bike challenges for 2011. I have made two cycling related New Year resolutions. The first, as mentioned in I’m Bike posting every day in 2011! is obviously to write something [...]

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The easiest way to get pots of bulbs home

Leave a Comment Posted by on December 4, 2010

It should be obvious to everyone that this: Mind you I found it strange when I was just leaving the @templars coffee shop in Rothley that a passer by said “a car is much easier”. Obviously I disagreed and said so. It was strange because there I was, parked right outside the coffee shop, it [...]

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