Warm winter

14°C, moderate SW, dry with sun.

That bin does not consent.

Weird weather, it’s like early May today.  I’m clocking up over 100/week currently. This bike needs a bit of TLC, especially – the mudguards are rubbing.

Tomorrow, I reset all the Speedos back to zero

Post mechanicals.

9°C, calm dry but grey.

A reasonable ride to Formby and back. The bike whizzed along in the still air. There’s lots of mud to watch for.

The previous rude was much slower and yesterday, I found out why. The rear wheel was very stiff so I serviced it. The cone bearing was very tight which must have knocked loads off the average speed. Mechanicals are usually an excuse for poor performance, but this time it was genuine.

Back on

5°C, very strong N, dry and cold.

Road works.

Had an unplanned layoff. That cold lasted 3 weeks. Then some days of bad weather to add to frustration. How I cursed it.

Anyway, I’m ventured out on the Arrow, I need gears in this wind. This building site has reduced the road to 1 lane for a good 300m, controlled by lights. I arrived on red and set off on the change to green. About 3/4 the way through, the opposing traffic came head on. The woman driving the Audi accused me of running a red light. I told her I went on green.

I was quite annoyed at this being neither ours faults. Quite why she thought it was ok to drive at oncoming traffic aside.