Sometimes you look out at the sky and think, ‘nah, I’ll skip it today, it’s too grey’. As someone who has dedicated his life to the pursuit of idleness, I find this kind of argument highly persuasive. Today was an example of why I shouldn’t. We decided to ride one of our favourite sections of the Veloscénie voie verte – one… Read more »
A friend recently posted (via Facebook) a link to a story as a warning to his dog-walking friends about a serious threat posed by cyclists. It’s a story about a cyclist who was seriously injured after tussling with a dog on a lead. The dog owner eventually wound up paying out £65,000, which was the point of my friend’s warning…. Read more »
Back when I used to do some flying, I’d look forward to winter in a perverse kind of way. Many pilots would think of the winter months as ‘out of season’. And, indeed, the low grey clouds would often make getting airborne impossible. But those days when you could fly were hard to match at any other time of the… Read more »
November is our favourite month for visiting Brittany. The tourists are out of the way, the dogs are allowed on the beaches, and this year there was an added dimension – our bikes. We hadn’t planned to take the bikes. With two dogs, only one dog trailer and (as far as we knew) not much in the way of voies vertes… Read more »
So, I finally remembered to bring my camera on my morning ride because I actually had a bag to put it in (review of BTR rackbag to follow). I missed the glorious weather last week, so you’ll have to make do with these rather grey pix. The weather today was mild, though, and not as wet as it looks. November… Read more »
A while back, I asked a cycling-obsessed friend for a pannier recommendation and the response was instantaneous and automatic. “Ortlieb,” he said. After some more research I came to understand why. Ortliebs have a peerless reputation for quality and durability. But, above all, they have a reputation for being utterly watertight. And that’s precisely what makes them useless for me. We’re not… Read more »
