Dreaming of a healthy diet
etape du tour
Cascade of blogs
My WordPress app continues to lose my blog posts and I am finding it hard to find the time to rewrite all my missing posts. Here is a month of bloggs in one go ….
€850 derailleur or 2 cent cable tie
So I’m sitting in the kitchenette at work having lunch with the office manager flicking through an old copy of Cycling weekly when … F@$^ING HELL! The contents of my mouth exploded across the table. The stain from that pumpkin soup will never come off of that wall.
I spent €850 on a brand new derailleur plus €300 on bike rental to fix a known fault that I could have remedied with a 2 cent cable tie. I am annoyed with Shimano.
I will write. Watch this space
It’s all happening on the Irish sea
Etape starting numbers announced. Act I: 1941 and Act II 2596 Happy enough with these numbers. They’re low enough to help me avoid early traffic jams like my 2Km walk up Col de Marie-Blanque in 2010. Exciting! The lights of Anglesey have just appeared through the mist. It’s 23:41 and I’m due to disembark at 00:20
Confessions of a Velophile 