I’m always surprised they don’t do more park and rides to tourist traps

I told my missus that I want to go out to Fat Bottomed Girls, she wasn’t impressed.

It’s hurling it down now which wasn’t forecast

Added a few more squares yesterday in the sun - still stuck on 9x9 because I've got 4 squares to grab to go up to 12x12 but they're in 3 different directions. I think I'll have to plan 3 rides that go further afield via the missing squares to grab those.

In the interests of TMI, I’ve been waiting for a prostate op for 15 months and counting since mine is ginormous for the youthful age of 54. I had about 9 months of various tests as well before they ruled out the big C so it’s been an interesting journey.

Still something of a misnomer though - as an example, they cut thousands of tonnes of wood from the forest here and transported it to Drax where it was burnt to produce electricity. On paper, that is seen as 'Green' because in theory it's sustainable. I'm pretty sure most of us would question just ...

…and dropped off a restrap bar bag for an upcoming road trip, an exped pillow for bikepacking and knog bar light to finally replace the one I lost on a Welsh hillside a couple of years ago

Finally got round to replacing the wildcat tapered dry bag that got chewed on by a mouse. I'd forgotten that they'd been bought out by Stolen Goat.

Perhaps you should plan a sequence of rides to the more remote mosques/masjid in Britain, planning around getting there for friday prayers followed by an overnight somewhere

You never know - once they’ve absorbed Canada and Greenland we might be next and then we wouldn’t even need a visa Once they've deported those that don't belong :lol: British Values and citizenship test, version 3.0 :grin: I may have made the odd derogatory comment about Trump online so I’d be in t...

You never know - once they’ve absorbed Canada and Greenland we might be next and then we wouldn’t even need a visa

I need to re-read those.

One of the many reasons I've never been tempted to pay for Strava is that on the odd occasion I was interested, Garmin gave me the info for free. AI* is expensive in terms of computer hardware so I do get companies having to charge money for it but wrapping raw statistics and graphs behind the paywa...

07/3/2025 76.85
21/3/2025 75.95*
28/3/2025 75.00

I've been ill all week with a stomach bug - yesterday was the first day in a few I managed actual food, not just toast. I'm expecting a bit of a rebound this week.

Just been at the hospital for tests on what's been causing me shortness of breath the last month or so... Not the worst it could be (it's not heart failure / cancer), but it's pretty catastrophic for the long term. Double pulmonary embolism (clot in both lungs). Will be on blood thinners for the re...

I've ridden a bike something like 6 times in the last two years for more than an hour for various reasons, I've had to come to the painful realisation that I'm a runner that identifies as a cyclist

I seem to have a habit of forgetting some combination of pot, stove, gas, coffee or food. I've largely given up on tarps since I always seem to get wet. I've lost lights after careening down hillsides but that's largely just meant I've had to limit myself to riding in daylight. I think I've been luc...

I got some off Amazon that have done me fine a while.

The times I’ve used it for routing it didn’t differentiate between footpaths and bridleways that well so I’ve only used it on multi-say hikes since.

Looks like Komoot has been bought out

https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/komoot ... s-at-risk/

28/2/2025 76.65
07/3/2025 76.85
21/3/2025 75.95*

Going in the right direction
* Drank my coffee before I thought to weight myself.

I had to give up caffeine a year ago now, rarely drink and have never smoked. I do eat too much sweet stuff. My running is normally a gentle amble trying to stay in zone 3 though I had to switch my trail running group night recently and that’s a lot faster paced than I normally run (according to my ...

The squirrels at the front of the house have started a daily habit of taunting our cat by foraging in our front garden while he gets agitated in the window. The ones at the back of the house taunt him from the safety of the back fence knowing they can jump into a tree before he gets halfway down the...

Since I need to go the doc to tell him about my high blood pressure and I run 2-3 times a week how do you find the medication affects your running?

Defiant used to make something like you describe - (the defiant pearl pass, iirc) they attached low on the seat post and then curved up around the saddle to be much more vertical than the norm. I was recommended one when I was first looking at getting a seat pack since it would have solved my tyre c...