Category Archives: Cycling

Feeling Fixed

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19°C, light N, sunny and dry.

Conspiracy Tree.

33km/hr indicated a good ride by my standards. The first half of this year has been disappointing on the bike for me. It’s possible that I had something like long covid after the Alpha infection at Christmas. I’ll never know for sure.

Here’s another sad rant from some conspiracy nutter. They’ve printed slogans and stuck this one to an ash tree in the middle of nowhere. That itself is futile enough without unwittingly publicising their ignorance.

This was a satisfying day.

Racelite

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23°C, light breeze, full sun.

Found!

Chain guages are invaluable. If you replace a chain before too long, then you don’t have to replace the cassette. My Zing passed the test, which is strange – it’s done 1,400.

The Racelite bike I was on failed the 0.75 and the 1.0 measure. That means a new chain is urgent.

Later: fitted a chain, but it skips over the cogs. Now need a new cassette. Nobody seems to have any in stock.

Warm at last!

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19°C sunny and dry.

Dead Hawthorne.

The wettest May on record has hit my milage somewhat.

Another thing, today was good weather to catch up on some laundry. Mundane, I know. For decades, I’ve checked laundry with a sniff test but it hasn’t worked since covid. Now, it’s back; if faintly. For six months that salty odour has been missing.