What isn't a ramble around here, eh?

Anyway, I wanted to create some more activity at the bike track I go to, so decided to try to get people to meet at the same time each week. I put up some posters:

2022-04-13

Ingredients: Porridge Oats/Jumbo Oats (200g/250g if no fruit) Brown sugar (but any kinda works, just use less if it's white) (50-100g depends on taste) Butter (no idea if salted or unsalted, I use either) (125g) Golden syrup (2tbsp? IDK, I use the measurement of "some") Fruit additives, or chocolate, or basically anything you like. Nothing too w…

I've never been quite sure how well the previous two owners of my Scott CX bike looked after it, but I'm 99% sure this one was my fault. From a recent post someone might have read and remember me talking about my crank coming loose? Well, that seems to have been a long term issue, as the bott…

I've had a few random mechanics things go off over the past weeks that I've not put on here, but before that if you're wondering what's going on, why this is a more bloggy post, and where project postie is, well uhh, I felt like it, and the guy who's welding my frame got ill and had to pospone giving me the bike back.

So I decided it was …

This one is mostly a ramble, but there's some mechanics in there somewhere

Fig. 1 2022-03-10

Okay, so I admit this title feels very much like a huge hot take, as I write this just after I've got back and my legs ache, and it kind of is, but at the same time ask me in a week and I'll still agree, and maybe in a few months I'll pine for another hundo but not once I've got half way round.

My average ride is 2 hours, my aver…

I bloody hate bikes sometimes. It's often said that you experience just as many issues on Linux as on Windows or Mac, but that when you know you can't fix them you ignore them and move on, and I have the same relationship with bikes now... I want my shit to run perfect, but usually make it worse, or try a much more advanced thing instead of some…

I've never quite known how chain wear works, or how the hell people know if they've done 1500 miles or whatever (before the days of Strava and having bikes on there especially). I do want to keep my bikes in working order, so check my chains, but when they're about to wear I get paranoid that 2 pedal strokes over the magic 0.75 (I stick to this …

In my city there's an old bike shop, it's a wonderous place full of imagination, and a bike mechanical master as old as time. The shop it called "Bob Warner Cycles", but the mechanic is called John.

I went there for some parts for Project Postie. A few bearings, a bit of knowledge, and to allow myself to…

On todays Saturday morning group ride, we took a gentle pedal with the shortest group as there weren't enough riders for the medium distance. It's always enjoyable to ride with that group, as there are knowledgable and interesting riders like Tim, who is 68 (nearly 69) and rode in his youth before picking it back up during 2020.

I enjoy t…