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("Today's Ride" is days old because I was off in the wild) Dawn patrol with RockRat. Slow turtles, slow geese, slow bike. Spotted a...

By way of contrast to all those sunny northern hemisphere rides, here we're back to wind, rain and cold, but as today's precipitation...

Tonight's POETS CC ride. Everything was beautiful, including the excruciating climbs (the last one off road, averaging at 16.5%). The...

Just 20 km along the river to the public pool next town and back. Needed the rear wheel for my touring bike, which I finally rebuilt, so...

Yesterday once more. It's becoming a semi-regular thing, but I won't get too carried away as it's only been 3 times in as many weeks. I...

A week of no riding due to being on holiday made the first ride back burn my legs a bit! Just under 40 miles of bridleways, tracks and a...

Finally finally finally, a sunny, near-windless day! To be honest, yesterday was also beautiful but I was on an urgent deadline; today...

Pootle to Wasdale Head . The emotional support monkeys baulked at going further up . They wanted to get their feet wet , until they got...

Today's actual ride. Lovely again. That track is as steep as it looks... maybe steeper.

Yesterday's ride. It's so nice to be home, riding the Castellano "soft machine" (and not carrying enough bloody luggage for a two week...

1983 and ISO. :)

I have restored this bike back to original condition. I had the frame and some components and then collected the rest to restore it as...

Another quick ride this morning, muggy out there.

Normal early Sunday morning ride, warm but overcast so a bit grey, decided to occupy myself at the back of the "peloton" with some pub...

Today we tried to escape the rain and went to Italy... It didn't look better there either. But the Trails are fantastic and so is the...