Monday 13th June 2022. After a very smooth drive down to Shirley*, West Midlands, I went for an un-panniered ride out to Shropshire to link up with a ride I did back in April from Shrewsbury. It’s all about linking up these red lines on a map for me! Except that this week, it’s a […]
Thursday 2nd June 2022. Whenever I travel over the Grane Road down into Helmshore, I always look across to a pretty little hill on the right. I first became aware of it in my early teens when one Saturday I decided to visit my friend in Blackburn (about 10 miles distant). I cycled over to […]
Thursday 12th May 2022. Less than a year ago, I was lucky enough to take a trip to Durham on a cycling holiday. The accommodation then was very good, but we found that we were cycling some 10 or 15 miles just to get to where the serious climbs began. This week I’m back, but […]
Tuesday 26th April 2022. I’m in Shrewsbury. I do like this town, having spent a couple of days here in 2017. I briefly passed through last year on a bike ride from near Stoke, but now I’m here for three days. The lady at the Airbnb I had originally booked was lovely, but she did […]
Friday 8th April 2022. It’s not often that I get the chance to go on a cycling trip organised entirely by someone else, but this is my good fortune this weekend. I think the trip was originally a training weekend for a charity ride, but when it was initially scheduled in 2019, we had no […]
Monday 14th March 2022 Regular readers will be aware that I primarily use Facebook to record a blog of cycle tours that I’ve enjoyed. (I’m not interested in what irregular readers may be aware of, and I’ve no desire to find out) Although I’ve not been on any tours recently, I’ve enjoyed some rides which […]
This year’s mileage was boosted by cycle trips to the Essex, the North York Moors, Shropshire and Derbyshire. At the time, 5000 was my second highest annual mileage recorded, and was actually my target mileage during the late 70s and early 80s, although I never managed to meet it. The tour from Nottingham to Essex […]
Tuesday 26th October 2021 Jessie Stevens is a young woman with a desire to change the world. She is concerned (along with HM The Queen, apparently) that those in power are not acting quickly enough to enact changes necessary to halt the rise in global CO2 emissions. She wants to attend the forthcoming climate conference […]
Tuesday 21st September 2021 I’m on the road again! This time I’m heading South, not to a new area, but one I’ve not visited much in many years. In the late 70s I spent a lot of time around Knutsford, Northwich and Tarporley with a number pinned on my cycling vest. At that time I […]
Saturday 14th August 2021 I’ve always loved maps: they are what got me into cycling nearly 50 years ago. Sadly, my extensive paper collection of Ordnance Survey maps is becoming obsolete, but thankfully, maps are digital now. Digital maps offer many advantages, especially when combined with today’s GPS technology; not only do they show the […]