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Last week I took my wheel back to bike shop and left it with them to assess. Ash, Cycle Heaven’s resident hub expert kindly checked it over. FOC. He backed off the cones, it span ok and I breathed a...
View ArticleAfrica Bike, back on the road.
The winter has finally arrived after weeks and weeks of spring type weather which has had nature all confused. Wasps in January? Wasps? January?? I have my bike back on the road. Bike #1, my ‘daily’,...
View ArticleThe Collection.
So, with the Africa Bike back on the road (just in time, the car is away for a week!) we now have a full set of bikes. Here’s just a few of them in a bundle: From back to front: Caz’s Gazelle Impala 7...
View ArticleMy Other Car is a Bicycle
The car came back at the weekend after a week away, borrowed by the inlaws. I drove it to work today, just as I drove it to work yesterday. The weather is pretty dismal at the moment, freezing rain...
View ArticleAero!
When I was an Industrial Design student I designed a hand held mobile phone no bigger than, say, a Nokia N97. This was 198cough and I was marked down severely because, according to the tutor, mobile...
View ArticleAero Dyabolical
Yepp windscreen not all it cracked up to be shock! I haven’t even ridden it with the boy yet but there’s already a problem. An unfortunate side effect of the use of the screen is that, when riding into...
View ArticleAfrica Bike. Episode 152…
The snow melted faster than it came. Over the weekend I stole the opportunity to fit the new Profile Imperial 44t ring – one tooth smaller than the one I removed for a negligible change to the bike’s...
View ArticleHello again..
I do try to keep this blog on topic as much as I can. About cycling and the issues facing cyclists and shiz. But this post isn’t about cycling. It’s about cancer. I had cancer in 1990, testicular...
View ArticleAnyway..
Cheer up! The sun eventually came out and it looks like it’s here to stay after the wettest spring in living memory. Woop. Cyclorama is moving premises today to a new office nearer to civilization....
View ArticleThe Tour de France
Am I the only person in the UK who isn’t apopleptic with delight at the prospect of a British winner of the TdF. For the first time in the Tour’s 107 yr history a Brit finished the race in The Yellow...
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