On Friday ParcelForce were supposed to collect my frame and take it to Mercian for a respray.
No-one came.
I rang Mercian, who re-arranged for Tuesday.
Tuesday, no-one comes.
This morning I go to the doctors and come back to find a note through the letterbox saying they’ve missed me.
I’m very tempted right now to send the frame to […]
Merlinman
My first laps today are about 1 a.m. Or so some dodgy maths and Merlinman’s last time through camp are telling me.
I’m dozing fitfully under a fleece blanket trackside about 30 minutes before Merlinman is due in when Christina Begy (Maverick Bicycles) comes round looking for Tim. Her left hand pedal is coming off it’s […]
Today is race day at the Kona SITS 2005.
beer - and milk - cooler
Tim from Sideways has picked a prime spot by the side of the course where we can wait between laps and time our team changeovers perfectly. More importantly he’s brought the beer cooler. Our cool box just can’t compete. It takes two […]
I’m on one of the Sideways Cycles teams for the Kona SITS 2005. I like riding for Sideways, the teams are always nice and relaxed. So after work I fill the car with camping gear & dogs, slap the Turner on the roofrack and my wife* chauffers me there.
The event has a new venue, Catton […]
Following my spit and polish job on the Hammer I sought advice on whether I should live with the state of the paint as is (patina), or have a respray.
Considered opinion, including that of at least one framebuilder, is to have it stripped to judge the state of the corrosion.
Seeing as the Hammer was a […]
Went for my echocardiogram yesterday to find that the appointment was Wednesday.
Cock.
All my fault.
It could be months before another appointment comes through because the system is full of:
a) private patients paying to jump the queue and not actually reducing the burden on the NHS at all,
b) cocks like myself who have an appointment but […]
Tomorrow I go for an echocardiogram of my heart. Think ultrasound scan, but for middle aged men.
What the doctors will be looking for - I hope - is hypertrophic myocardiopathy. Enlarged or thickened heart walls.
Hopefully they’ll not find it.
If they do that’s the end of any athletic career on a bike. No fair. It’s going […]
A couple years ago I bought a 1993 Rocky Mountain Hammer as a turbo-training bike. The poor thing was shod with slicks straight away. Then it underwent the miles of torture with me.
Two years of turbo-work and winter commuting had taken their toll.
Corrosion - Click For More
The paintwork was dull and showing the effects […]
I’ve just spent an afternoon with the CSS2 manual updating the looks and the lifestyle of 32sixteen.com.
The end result has cleared out a load of the guff that comes with a standard blogger stylesheet, and looks a little better to my design untrained eye. I mean, I love die cut Peter Saville stuff which just […]
I wish this was mine, but the credit must go to Shaggy. Rather fetching there in his Paolo Pezzo top. Anyway, here goes…
1 - Build your first singlespeed
inspired by others riding SS, you either convert an old bike or buy an entry level SS to get the flavor.. Ride it, ***** about how hard it […]
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New! iPod updating courtesy of iScrobbler.
It doesn't update from the wheels of steel though :-)
Remember kids, vinyl can't carry Digital Rights Management.
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For all that we like the up-to-the minute offerings of the web there‚s nothing like a proper badly photocopied A5 fanzine or a glossily printed proper magazine to keep you occupied on the throne. Here, in no particular order, is our material of choice.
In the UK as we give away our civil liberties in the name of freedom it might be handy to be aware of Photographers Rights.
Don’t let The Man stop you shooting.
If anyone has a full set of NEMBA results (that‚s North of England for you colonial types) then please forward them.
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