Not on his own this time, Mark Beaumont is heading out by boat along with a team of fellow explorers to row to the North Pole.
May the forks be with you…
Sorry for the bad pun… I just replaced my very old and knackered set of mountain bike forks from my original bike which now gets used as a commuter hack. So off came the old ones with some judicious hammer and screwdriver action to remove the original headset (not too…
Daylight Returns
I love it at this time of year when it start getting light in the mornings for my cycle to work, and in the evenings for the cycle home. Maybe it’s an inbuilt caveman thing – winter is over! Check out the sunset/sunrise elsewhere on this website. blm
Fed up with this walking malarky
Right, getting a bit fed up with this snow nonsense now. Out of the last 31 journeys to or from work I have been on my bicycle the vast total of 6 trips… 🙁 1 bus journey home to make sure I was home in time to pick up Christmas…
Busy weekend
Up to a variety of things this weekend. Early start on Saturday heading through to Fife for a 30 mile cycle with Simon Followed by wander down the Water of Leith with Lorraine to check out some of the Gormley sculptures. Followed by cinema to see ‘The Other Guys’ (well…
Phew 100 miles done
We all successfully completed the 100 miles cycle on Sunday. Well, when I say 100 miles it was actuall 93 mile between the timing points followed by a 5 or 6 mile cycle on the cycle paths down to the finish gantry in Victoria Park. We then insisted on doing…
My longest ever cycle
Many years ago when I was a lad working for John Menzies at 107 Princes Street, we did a sponsored cycle to Berwick – stopping half way at Dunbar. I trained by going ‘Round the Rig’ which was about a 6 mile loop from my folks house in Balerno. Up…
100 mile cycle sponsorship
Fancy giving a few pounds to charity for our cycling efforts? The please head to our Just Giving page and support Maggie’s Centes. This is an actual picture of us training by leading out the pack in this years Tour de France. (or is it?)
50 mile test spin
50 miles is half of the 100(ish) I’m doing on the 12th September (sponsorship page to follow!) Me and the new bike went for a proper spin this morning all the way out to Carnwath and back. Just a shade under 50 miles (maybe I should have gone round the…
Windy days
If the wind can be guaranteed to be as strong and in the same direction on 12th September then the cycle should be great! Took 2 hours to cycle 20 miles out the ‘Lang Whang’ up hill and into a very brisk headwind. I was aiming for a 3 hour…