It's a lovely sunny day, warm but not hot, and I thoroughly enjoyed my first ever 7.5 mile bike ride to work. I'm now hoping it remains non-rainy for the rest of the day, so I can equally enjoy the ride home again :-)

Today smiorgan gave me and the bike a lift to work, and after work I went on what was probably my longest bike ride ever: from my office to our other site 5 miles away, and then after a meeting (about dissertation number one, for which a shape and structure is now developing), the 2.5 miles home. This was partly because out of semester time the buses are ( Read more... )

This morning, under smiorgan's supervision, I assembled my replacement bike, and then went out and rode it around Iffley for a while, being surprised at one point to remember that the road I had just ridden up was a hill ( Read more... )

There will be no photos of my new bike, because there is no new bike. It's gone. Wheeled out of our side passageway, past all the other old and crappy bikes, and - presumably - out through the garden. Bye bye bike :-(

A month ago, I met bluedevi straight from collecting her new bike, with an enormous grin, and clearly reluctant to get off the bike and into my car to drive to London. I think if we hadn't had plans, she would just have carried on cycling around Oxford forever ( Read more... )