Remember to wear a helmet!
We need more cops hugging people without helmets here in the UK!
James, Mark, Bek and I have all been rock’n helmets for longer than we can remember… they will save your life oneday!
The final push…
With the weather getting better in the UK James and I are ramping up our training efforts in one last little push to the starting line on the 1st of May… Only 11 trainging days till we are off… Keep the good wishes and cancer support dollars rolling in.
RIH goes in for the final once over by Keith atr Tour de Ville tomorrow. I am getting a road for fitted (don’t want to… but its for my own saftey!) with a front brake and having all the bits and bobs double and triple checked!?
More soon…
Ride on.
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Just another day at work…
This morning started really well, the weather prompted me to ride out to my meeting in Richmond a good 8 miles out from my house, the park is well, as the park is in spring just amazing. climbed the hill fixed for the first time with little issues and the fixed bug is well and truly in my system. 2 hour meeting, and then a cool 16 miles back to the office, doesn’t seem like much but for a monday morning commute and the absence of training hours in the week it was much needed! keeping my toes crossed for more days like this! 4 weeks until the big ride and I am truly going to enjoy this!
I have a new ride…
Well I have had it for a little while now, but just decided that I will be riding to Amsterdam on this fella…
Think I will fit a brake for the long ride…. maybe a clamp on one?
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Training hell and blown tires
Luck really has nothing to do with me at present! As Mark stated our training ride was cut heinously short by what seems to be the most persistent problem known to my bike.. the flat tire.. 2 in one week on the front tire alone making for some cold and greasy hands outside Farringdon station in rush hour traffic and a not so great start to our first training ride.. I digress from the point which is that we are looking at something like 12 training weekends left before the big ride and at the going rate I think I will be needing shares in a tube company real quick, but 100 flat tires will really do nothing to stop me from completing this ride, it may delay and seriously P**s me off but it wont stop me.. eat up, saddle up and get out there!
Tubular Hell
Well, me and James made it for our first training ride together today but it didn’t quite go according to plan. Firstly, my inability to wake up on time put us one hour behind then train delays put us two hours behind. Eventually, we met at Putney to ride to Richmond Park at 11.00am.
This was my first outing on my shiney new single speed so I was really looking forward to a long ride. After climbing the first hill and realising it’s massively different to spinning up a hill on a geared bike, I was quietly relieved when James’ tyre had a hissy fit on him. (It gave me time for a breather.) Anyway, we had a wee peek at the tube and couldn’t find a noticible hole so pumped it up again only for it to go flat on him right away. This left us with little choice other than to stick a new tube in but did we have one? Did we F*%k!
Exit mark for a quick sprint to the bike shop in Putney to buy a tube and 45 mins later, we were back in the saddle….. We did one lap of the park when I realised the time and needed to be somewhere else so we had to call it a day. (I didn’t really have to be anywhere, I just realised that single speed is harder going than geared so made up an excuse…..(I’m Joking James))
This little escapade really does inforce the need to carry spare equipment whenever you ride and certainly proves that we’re going to need a number of spare tubes on the road to Berlin. If anyone out there can help by supplying us a few packs of tubes FOC, we’d be eternally gratefull.
Winter Sun And Bicycle Fun
Well, that’s me back from two weeks training in sunny Spain. I covered hundreds of miles with the highlight being a 14 mile climb in the Sierra Espuna national park. I completed the climb in what I felt was a respectable 01:48:05. Next time I might try it fixed…….. (Yeah right!)
