( Saturday )

My mate wascally_weasel is on his way to Land's End today, for the epic charity undertaking The Race Against Time. He and his eight-strong team will be cycling from Land's End to John O'Groats for charity. But because that would be too easy, they have to do it in six days. Which means a week of hard cycling, needing experienced and quick riders, top kit and ( Read more... )

wascally_weasel has started a blog about his upcoming epic cycle ride, The Race Against Time. It's worth a look if you want to get an idea of how, and why, people get into such beautiful madness. Link's here.

Here's me, dressed for the occasion, from Saturday's experimental test flight of WW's tandem.

Got a call on Friday from wascally_weasel, asking me to come and help him move a bike this weekend. Seemed he had been offered an old tandem in need of repair, and as Bryony wasn't about on Saturday, he needed someone to help transport it from Harrow to Norbiton ( Read more... )

( ...and all for striking of a blow )

I'm a poster boy for cycling! Or something.
If you look at the front page picture of the site for that London Freewheel cycle event on Sunday...
On the left of the screen is a cyclist in a grey T shirt with a backpack, wearing a BookCrossing baseball hat. That would be me, folks.
In the gallery there's a full version, and you can see Bryony as ( Read more... )

Even as I type, my friend wascally_weasel is racing in the Etape du Tour. This fiendish road race happpens every year on a Tour de France rest day. Basically, several thousand serious amateur cyclists race a stage of the Tour. A mountain stage. 200 km / 125 miles through the Pyrenees ( Read more... )

Had last week off work.  Didn't do much with it - enjoyed avoiding the rush hour, went for walks in the park, watched a lot of the football, cleaned the flat.
Went to wascally_weasel and Bryony's place yesterday.  WW, Rupert & I went on a bike ride across Richmond Park to enjoy the view and drink a couple of beers at the Roebuck (I made a poor showing cycling the ( Read more... )

( The Ring Cycle )