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Waddington Road Ride (Metric Century A Month, 2012, Month #1)

ColinJ — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:30:21 +0000

I have set myself the challenge of doing at least one metric century bike ride (100 kms or 62 miles) every month of this year. The winter months are obviously the hardest ones. I think, barring accident or illness, that March to October should be okay, but January, February, November and December could be tricky. [...]

Walking Shoes And Walking Boots For My Birthday Present

ColinJ — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:27:47 +0000

It was my birthday last week (I’m now 56 – yikes!) and my sister offered to buy me a new pair of walking boots, since my old ones have finally fallen to bits after about 10 years of use. I’ve been distracted and hadn’t got round to telling her which ones I wanted. That turns [...]

Happy New Year 2012!

ColinJ — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:40:32 +0000

Happy New Year, folks! Here we are, another year, and a better start for me than last year. Yes, I’m still fat, but at 15 stone 12 pounds (222 pounds, 100.7 kg), at least I’m about 9 pounds down on early January last year. I’m still upset about my mum dying at Christmas 2010, but [...]

Season of Mists 2011

ColinJ — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 21:50:54 +0000

I previously posted this report on CycleChat but decided that I really should have posted it here so I’ve cut and pasted it, and linked to it from the CycleChat ride thread. (Sorry, no photos on this report. The light was poor and there was rain on the lens of my camera. Refer to the [...]

‘Dip Into The Dales’

ColinJ — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 21:41:48 +0000

I missed the Spring Into The Dales (SITD) audax ride this year due to illness and was mightily peeved at the time. I thought it would now be good to organise a CycleChat forum ride along similar lines so I plotted a route which took in some elements of the old and new SITD routes [...]

Hello Again!

ColinJ — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 16:51:52 +0000

Hi folks. I’ve taken a long break from updating this blog. To be honest – I got pretty fed up with it when my mum was dying and I’ve been feeling pretty low since then so it just seemed a chore that I could do without. I was only updating it because I had the [...]

Steve H’s Thule Bike Rack

ColinJ — Tue, 24 May 2011 17:12:20 +0000

On a recent forum ride, I was so impressed with Steve H’s Thule bike rack that I decided to write a review of it with his help. If you are looking for a better way of carrying bikes on your car, please read bike racks for cars.

A Meander Round Hollingworth Lake

ColinJ — Mon, 09 May 2011 19:24:17 +0000

M & M were heading home but we had a sunny spell so they decided to postpone their journey for a couple of hours and drive us to Hollingworth Lake for a little walk. We called in at the Visitor Centre for lunch, then walked slowly round the lake looking at the birds and chatting. [...]

Heptonstall and Widdop Walks

ColinJ — Sat, 07 May 2011 20:36:55 +0000

Maisie and Mal were up for the weekend and we fancied a stroll so we drove up to Heptonstall with Lisa and walked part of the way towards the top of Colden Clough via Lumb Bank, then retraced our footsteps and walked through the woods to Hell Hole Rocks, round the top of the quarry [...]

“You’re Nicked!” – Another Hilly Waddington Ride

ColinJ — Sun, 01 May 2011 20:10:18 +0000

I did another CycleChat forum ride to Waddington today with Alun, Gordon (‘OldnSlow’), Steve (‘Steve H’), Dave (‘potsy’) and Colly. We had a good day for it – a bit windy, but nice and sunny and comfortable temperatures. We rode out via Widdop again but this time Gordon made sure not to snap any more [...]