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So, it's only been ages since I last wrote anything in here. While the tumbleweed absent-mindedly blows across the road, and I shuffle ...

With the odometer sitting today at 676 miles, I have to say that I'm getting on really quite well with Henrietta Brompton. I haven'...

O n a rather ratty looking piece of paper, already adorned with some vaguely technical-drawing sketches of rear light mountings and a scrib...

What would a bicycle ride be without photographs? Now that the world has advanced beyond the standard chunky SLR film camera and pokey litt...

An entry in here devoted almost entirely to the minutia of recabling a bike feels a little like making you listen to Tales from Topographic ...

While the dynamics, the kinematics if you will, of bicycles are a little beyond me, the mechanics are fairly well understood. I've bee...

You have just two and a half days left if you want to look for any last minute bargains. Borders , the bookshop people, is closing down. I...

The hot news is that my Terracycle Tailsok arrived. A tailsok (sic) is I suppose primarily an aerodynamic device, designed to reduce the ne...

Gosh, it has been a while since I poked this blog, hasn't it! Before skimming the last post here I had almost no recollection of what ...

It's here! My new frame arrived just a few days after I last wrote, a courier company man turning up at the door with a surprisingly lon...

It's getting just a little bit frustrating, thinking of the good weather and the places I might have gone to, while still being stuck in...

I've written this page to be as much of a parallel reference as a standalone. Alex Rice detailed the disassembly of his Speedmachine...