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Beautiful 8-mile ride in warm sunshine round the hills above Lancaster. Going out again at lunchtime and heading towards the sea this time, got to make the most of the weather!
 
I think I've pinned my bike's lack of steering precision down to slack bearings in the rear wheel - though why it suddenly went wonky I don't know. Time to order some cone spanners.
In the meantime I managed to stuff some grease in the non-sprocket side.

But the whole thing's getting a bit loose so I may get a new wheel built so I can get this one looked at.
I've had 2 years and 4000 miles out of this one.
I have a spare one, but it's non-disc and I don't have any vee-brakes available ...
Perhaps I should get one built on a sealed bearing hub ...

I need a second near-identical bike really ...:p
 
Got in my 20 miles, had a bit of a sit-down.. found some dopamine on the way back and put a bit of effort into it. Met 3 people I know - stopped for the first who was on his way back from Guernsey via Shafesbury... into his 60s. I don't know how he does it physically or emotionally - almost non-stop touring - often solo - he'll be in Nantes later for the Sem Fed...

Passed a roller-skater who'd got up to 16MPH !
Youtubed an idiot on the railway path with a motorcycle.
 
An interesting day.

Did a 70 mile Audax ride (i.e. 100km + 12km lost off-route) in glorious sunshine :) However the last time I did such a short Audax ride was, er... 2002 so I decided to put in a bit more effort than I would usually. Ok, a lot more effort. Surprisingly I finished embarassingly far up the field. Amazed at some of the riders who were slower than me.

At one point around 1pm, I was caught by a motorist who, very properly, waited until the road was clear before overtaking me. But she then pulled level with me, wound the window down, and told me (in no uncertain terms) that my rear light was off and so she couldn't see me at all. 1pm. Blue sky. Glorious sunshine. But then she had a South African accent, which could be significant.

On returning home I found my Plus Fours had arrived! So after visiting a sick relative in hospital (three hours drive there and back) I donned them along with my new Argyle knee-length socks, checked shirt, waistcoat and cloth cap and took the ensemble for a test drive on the Pashley before tomorrow's Pashley Picnic in Stratford-upon-Avon.

The looks on the faces of the people in the off licence was a picture :)
 
How's the facial hair ?
I wish my camera hadn't crashed yesterday. I encountered a young chap out with a group of friends on non-sporty bikes with a spectacular set of whiskers (I didn't get to see if it was actually a fixie he was riding) - beyond soup-straining and into Yorkshire terrier territory !
I suspect a handlebar would suffice (as well as having an appropriate name. :) )
 
I did my 17 mile time trial route in almost bang on an hour this morning, which made me quite proud. I even got into my sparingly-used big chainset for a good 5 mile turn. :cool:
 
Only 11.5 miles in woods lots off dog walker and horses. See a nasty dog fight both dog had chest harnesses one kind of dog was pit bull terrier don't know other type.
Some walker was trying to get inbetween the dogs :rolleyes:

Nasty dogs like that should be on a lead!
 
The Pashley Picnic was (and still is, probably; I had to leave early) bloody fantastic. Photo of yours truly to follow.

Before today I hadn't appreciated the fact that the majority of female Pashley owners are extremely easy on the eye! Therefore I shall be purchasing a Pashley cycle for Mrs Chap forthwith.

Toodle pip!
 
Yours truly at the start of Sunday's Pashley Picnic Ride.

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What a handsome bastard I am, eh?

Toodle pip!
 
For my Pashley (a rusty ex-British Petroleum works bike in hi-viz yellow) I think I'd have to wear some of my work overalls to look the part. Is that picnic an annual event, or more frequent? I'd love to come along to represent to scruffy end of the product line.
 
Sadly it's just once a year dogsauce old chap.

There was a rather attractive lady dressed as 1940s Land Girl so I don't think you'd have the "scruffy" end to yourself.

I did spend some time riding with another rather attractive young lady on a very rusty Pashley which had been rescued from the local tip only days beforehand.
 
Nearly taken out by a taxi doing a U-turn on Boar Lane last night - saw them start indicating when parked on the left so I pulled out to the centre of the road (it's a wide road) so they had room to pull out & start moving off in the same direction I was travelling, but they swung out and turned right across me. Several bus queues of people might have heard a bit of swearing.
 
Darn.
Two classic horn deployments and my camera card gets corrupted again. :mad:
I can't even find my USB reader so I can format it.

The summer has brought out the crazies in large numbers.
Presumably when they overtake a cyclist into oncoming traffic, they assume everyone will agree it's the cyclist's fault.

I certainly find the other cars slow to reach for the horn themselves - as if it's the norm.
 
Definitely seen an uptick in motorised dickery now the sun has come out a bit. Had to check I hadn't accidentally donned a cloak of invisibility this morning after the number of people that pulled in/out on me.
 
A guy stopped in the road, to the right of the lane, indicating right. Me and another cyclist go to pass on his left, just as he starts to turn left.
Amazing.
 
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