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June 8th, 2006

The cycling revolution

As avid followers of my cycling category will know I recently bought a new bicycle and have been riding it hither and thither. I find that after a day of doing drawing or admin or websites or blogging getting out into the fresh air is just what you need. I go though fairly uninteresting housing estates and bumpy semi-cyclepaths, but it doesn’t matter. I just enjoy it.

I was please to read via Richard’s blog that cycling is significantly on the increase, according to the Independent. Ian has a picture of the front page of the newspaper: Pedallingmythoughts: Newspaper front page of the year. Marvellous. Come on everyone – if you are physically able to ride a bicycle (and I realise not everyone is) then why not give it a try? See my other cycling posts for bike-buying advice.

I think the final word needs to go to Steve Tomkins though:

Anyway. Now I’m a born-again cyclist. (I get fit and I go to be with Jesus when I die.) It’s fab. Whhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!! I go, when it’s downhill, the wind in my helmet, my life in my hands. When it’s uphill, it’s more “Ugh – ugh – ugh – ugh – ugh…” (stop and pretend to fix something on my bike while I get my breath back) “…ugh – ugh – ugh”. But then it’s a truly righteous feeling when you get to the top – and when you feel those little blobs of cholestrol being traded in for extra minutes of your life.

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  1. Ian says:

    Dave,

    May your love of cycling hither and thither never wither or dither

    June 9th, 2006 at 3:04 pm
  2. Ruth says:

    Re:
    “Ugh – ugh – ugh – ugh – ugh…” (stop and pretend to fix something on my bike while I get my breath back) “

    Yes. I know all about this from my hill-walking days. But you need more than one “valid excuse” for unfortunately having to stop just as you were really enjoying that sharp incline. Here are a few more for you (of course, I could never “mend my bike” when hill walking, but anyhow):

    - admire the view
    - photograph the view
    - draw the view
    - drink water
    - pour water over head
    - take or make a phone call on mobile
    - write something in log book
    - study a plant at close quarters
    - draw the plant
    - press the plant (provided not rare, in which case, why the interest…??.. err…)
    - check map
    - mark map
    - have a sandwich
    - re-fasten boots
    - meditate
    - apply suncream
    - point at piece of ground in nearest field as if to say “could that be the location of an ancient Roman fort?”
    - check underside of boots for doggy doo-doos (not if riding a bike though)
    - blow nose
    - take pretend antibiotic
    - check rucksack for something that you suddenly think you might have forgotten
    - apply tubular sports bandage thing to knee
    - apply lip salve
    - set up a tripod with something on top of it and point it towards nearest summit in a map-making/ surveying sort of a way (need to buy and carry said tripod. This one is not the best of my ideas)
    - pretend to or actually get cramp
    - do “neck exercises” (head forwards and back, side to side) – this looks very good. It smacks of “this hill’s not rigorous enough for me. I need a little additional exercise en route”.

    June 10th, 2006 at 11:38 pm