First of all I must heartily recommend this post from the As Easy As Riding A Bike blog. It is an analysis of road deaths and injuries in Horsham, based on information from the ITO website’s road casualty map. The rest of the blog is well worth a look too. It would be interesting to [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Cycling'
Fill that hole!
April 9th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Technology
Can I recommend this new website – fillthathole.org.uk? Just the other day somebody was telling me how somebody at the county council (I think it was a member, but might have been an officer) was saying how potholes are not really such a big problem because modern cars have suspensions that can cope with them, [...]
Bike parts
June 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Work
Today at work we had a local bike shop set up a stall at lunchtime, offering 15% staff discounts at their shop to try and tempt us out of our cars and into accident and emergency onto bicycles. All very worthy, and they do have an extensive catalogue. I would be interested to see how [...]
Progress
July 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Life
I had a bit of a breakthrough today. For the first time I got all the way home without getting off the bike and pushing at any point. Its more of a psychological breakthrough than a physical one, I suspect.  The last 50 metres before getting home is a hill that just psychs me out. [...]
Tags: Cycling
Shed-dweller
July 16th, 2008 · No Comments · Life
While the kids’ bikes rust away in the garden I keep mine in the shed to protect it from the rain and damp, but there may be a flaw in this plan.  I’m not saying that our shed is damp, but when I took the bike out this morning I had to be careful not [...]
On the bike
July 2nd, 2008 · 3 Comments · Life
I feel bad that I make so much of cycling to work. Loads of other people both older and younger than me cycle all the time, so why is it such a big deal?  I think the clue there is that they do it all the time, so they are used to it. I am [...]
Tags: Cycling
On the road again
June 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life
Well, I picked up the new bike on Friday, which was a bit of an experience. Technology has moved on a lot since I bought my last bike – some time in the 80s I think. I do hope nothing ever goes wrong with it because anything I ever knew about maintenance is not going [...]
Tags: Cycling
Back in the saddle
June 27th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Life
Excitement and anticipation has just about edged out worry and trepidation about my return to cycle commuting after a gap of almost twenty years, and just in time: I collect my new bike tomorrow after work and will ride it home. As if on cue, it started raining this evening.
Manic Friday
June 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life, Music, Work
It was a bit manic today. Charlie needed to go to hospital to have his hand looked at, but it was a very short-notice appointment. I decided to drop him off there on my way to work, rather than have him take a one-hour bus ride or the train; just to make sure he got [...]
On yer bike
June 18th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Life, Work
I am very tempted by this cycle2work scheme. One thing that has put me off the idea of cycling to work is the state of my 20-year-old bike, which was only a cheap one when I bought it, and it saw 20 miles a day of cross-London commuting for several years. Its a bit rusty [...]
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