Neil and Alice are off on the other side of the world for the next week or two and have kindly lent us their cycle chariot. Emma was certainly keen to give it a go as she was sat in the seat with the cover over whilst I finished assembling it! Unfortunately Saturday wasn’t really the best day for venturing out on a bicycle as it was drizzling from dawn ’til dusk. By mid-afternoon we had to get out of the house to maintain sanity and a bike ride round the local playgrounds seemed as good an idea as any. As you can see from the photo, Duncan was slightly less keen about the whole idea but then he did go off to sleep shortly after we set off! I certainly found it an easier ride towing two rather than having Emma in the rear seat although there’s not much in the way of hills around us to really provide a test. Given its size, it remains to be seen whether we take it away with us on holiday and, given the price (now about £800 for this model), even more so whether we decide to buy one for ourselves.
Archive for the ‘Cycling’ Category
Chariots of Rain
Monday, March 22nd, 2010Cranky competition
Sunday, December 20th, 2009For some reason I decided to enter the ‘Military Challenge’ Mountain Bike Orienteering event yesterday. This was despite not even owning a mountain bike (I borrowed one from the cycle club at work). What I hadn’t bargained on at the time I entered was that there would be lots of snow on the ground! Things started to go wrong even before the start. I had not brought my normal cycle jacket (well, it’s Christine’s actually) as the zip broke but what I had forgotten was that my cycle gloves were in the rear pocket. Luckily I did at least have another pair of gloves with me.
Summer’s on its way
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007Spring has well and truly sprung and it feels like summer won’t be far behind. The change in the clocks at the weekend and some bright sunshine left me with no excuse not to cycle in to work yesterday. I don’t use those muscles very often and my legs ached after just a few miles. The sun was out again today for the first Tuesday night run of the year. As is tradition, this was from the Royal Oak, Fritham and involved visiting six of the nearby ponds. I’ve decided to post
GPX files for these runs but don’t yet have a good way of displaying them. If your running Internet Explorer then you can
view it on some MS Virtual Earth imagery and try and spot the ponds! You can always use GPSBabel if you want some other format.
Tandem Mountain Biking
Sunday, November 27th, 2005As part of Christine’s birthday celebration we hired bikes from Lyndhurst in the New Forest along with Christine’s parents, her brother and his girlfriend. For novelty value, we took a tandem mountain bike. The fact that the front and rear pedals are fixed relative to one another meant getting started took a bit of practice (I have the scars on my shins to prove it) but once you got going it was quite easy to out-pace the individual riders.
