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  • Gleefully hypocritical!

    Number of comments: 1
    I was just thinking back to when I started cycling again. I don't mean a few weeks ago, after sitting on my arse and getting fatter during the winter. No, I mean in general again. Like a lot of us, I used to cycle as a' [...]
    Posted: April 22, 2008, 11:09am EDT
  • Twat?

    Number of comments: 0
    Am I a money wasting twat? I broke a spoke in the rear wheel of my Xero Tarmac XBR-1 wheels, took it to be fixed (After not being able to get a 'proper' replacement spoke, but I'll get to that later) and got it back' [...]
    Posted: September 14, 2007, 12:52pm EDT
  • Does this work okay?

    Number of comments: 0
    I was fiddling about with MapMyRide.com (Which seems great) and thought I would try their 'embed a route into your website or blog' gubbins. So, here goes...

    &<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">lt</span>;a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">href</span>="http://www.mapmyride.com/ride/ireland/randalstown/411685728"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Randalstown</span> to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Maghera</span> and back&<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">lt</span>;/a>&<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">lt</span>;<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">br</span>/>&<span class="blsp-spelling-error" [...]
    Posted: August 26, 2007, 7:34am EDT
  • So macho!

    Number of comments: 2
    Whilst I might not be quite the heaving mass of muscle the young gentleman, pictured to the left, is I'm feeling pretty damned manly.

    My 'stand in while I've got a broken spoke in my main bike' trusty Peugeot had been giving me a bit [...]
    Posted: August 09, 2007, 5:18pm EDT
  • My bumhole loves chamois cream

    Number of comments: 0
    I've been thoroughly useless altogether when it comes to writing in this blog thing. Look at the last time I wrote. May for gawd sake! Whilst I don't imagine many people read my witterings or are 'chomping at the bit' to bask in the glow of [...]
    Posted: August 02, 2007, 6:32pm EDT
  • Moaning pain in the arse

    Number of comments: 2
    Me being a moan about nothing? Surely not. This time my grump is about the new Eurosport/Yahoo website. I've got to say (Well, I don't 'have' to but I'm going to) I'm not greatly impressed. I know the information is all still there but it [...]
    Posted: May 24, 2007, 6:26am EDT
  • More tandem thoughts

    Number of comments: 2
    I know I'm being a complete stuck record here but I've been obsessing over our tandem a bit since we decided to get it. If anything, I'm a little less obsessive than I was when we had just got it and I was sprucing it up' [...]
    Posted: April 19, 2007, 6:32am EDT
  • Spot the difference

    Number of comments: 3
    It's not actually a 'spot the difference' competition at all (Although I'll be impressed by your bothering to if you can spot them and comment to let me know. Oh what joy! If you do, I might actually send you something for the effort) but rather [...]
    Posted: April 13, 2007, 8:02am EDT
  • Lidl is good

    Number of comments: 0
    If you live in Northern Ireland, you may be pleased to find Lidl is doing its 'every so often' run of cycling stuff from Thursday the 5th of April.

    There doesn't seem to be any of their cheap clothing but I've noticed they often [...]
    Posted: April 02, 2007, 12:25pm EDT
  • Maiden voyage

    Number of comments: 0
    Although it was time consuming and I had a couple of little setbacks, I managed to work round them and get the tandem reasonably roadworthy. All I've got left to do is get new seatposts (So I can fit them and the San Marco [...]
    Posted: March 31, 2007, 1:38pm EDT
  • What a difference three days makes

    Number of comments: 0
    I'm just off the phone with SJS Cycles and am pleased to say the girl I was speaking to this time was very pleasant. Hoorah! Being the fickle and short memoried beast I am, I can now like them a bit more. Anyway, the reason I was ringing them' [...]
    Posted: March 29, 2007, 5:35am EDT
  • Cursed?

    Number of comments: 0
    I don't know whether I'll be doing as much cursing as I thought in assembling some of our tandem parts or whether I'm just cursed when it comes to tandems.

    When buying our tandem, the guy selling it gave us a pair of what I' [...]
    Posted: March 26, 2007, 11:07am EDT
  • Post 100: Tandem riding here we come

    Number of comments: 0
    Well, there it is, our new tandem (If you left-click on the picture I think it'll show you a bigger version) in our messy garage. It's new to us but it sure as hell ain't new to the world. We just picked it up today and' [...]
    Posted: March 24, 2007, 4:04pm EDT
  • Tandem boredom update

    Number of comments: 2
    As with all blogs on th'internet, this one ain't especially interesting to anyone other than the bugger who wrote it. It's just as well I'm the only person who ever looks near it then I guess.

    After having to return our wonky tandem, we've agreed' [...]
    Posted: March 17, 2007, 8:16am EDT
  • Update

    Number of comments: 0
    I know this is of no interest to anyone but I feel I hadn't finished off the previous post very well. It turned out the tandem we had bought was a bit buggered so we returned it and got our money back. We should be going to look at a,' [...]
    Posted: March 05, 2007, 1:08pm EST
  • Oh for fu...

    Number of comments: 0
    We got our tandem replacement rear wheel (Delivered by the customary surly twat) on Thursday (Three weeks and six days after returning it) put it in the bike, pumped it up, set the bike on the ground and immediately got a puncture due to the rim tape being so pathetic. [...]
    Posted: December 23, 2006, 10:58am EST
  • Filth!

    Number of comments: 2
    I went out (Alone, for the first time in ages) today for a cycle. Asides from not drinking enough and giving myself a headache, I got completely minging. My bike frame was covered in spatters of filth (Even though I've got full length mudguards fitted) and' [...]
    Posted: December 05, 2006, 5:01pm EST
  • PunctureRepairKit.co.uk

    Number of comments: 4
    For any of you who read this but don't look at the PunctureRepairKit main site, I thought I would point out I've just bought the web address www.PunctureRepairKit.co.uk. Prior to this, I had been using the address www.PunctureReparKit.tk but there were annoying pop-up adverts with it and, [...]
    Posted: December 03, 2006, 2:55pm EST
  • Oh bugger!

    Number of comments: 0
    To compound our misery a little, it turns out the bent rim was only one of the problems with our tandem. The pannier rack (As pictured) ain't in great shape either.

    As you can see, it has been bent badly enough to actually have a' [...]
    Posted: November 26, 2006, 3:35pm EST
  • Woe is me/us!

    Number of comments: 1
    Well, our Galaxy Twin and Horizon arrived yesterday and, as you'll expect, I was exceptionally excited.

    I unpacked the Horizon (They were both boxed and required a reasonable amount of assembly) and spent an hour or so assembling it then dragged in' [...]
    Posted: November 25, 2006, 7:07am EST
  • Tandem thoughts

    Number of comments: 2
    We received a phone call from John at Spa Cycles yesterday (Which was very considerate customer service I thought) to tell us our tandem (And my winter bike) will/should arrive with us this Friday coming. It's now Wednesday and it seems as if time has' [...]
    Posted: November 22, 2006, 9:14am EST
  • Dawsey, Dawsey

    Number of comments: 1
    Well as you can see from the previous posts, myself and 3Ply are getting a Dawes tandem - I say getting quite deliberately as I am contributing not a penny towards the bike, so thanks go to Mr Stagliano for his generosity. I am looking forward [...]
    Posted: November 19, 2006, 1:06pm EST
  • Taking the plunge

    Number of comments: 0
    Goodness me but that's a cliched post title and photo to go with it. Still, it's good to see someone so happy to be forcing faeces round the U-bend of her lavatory. It could be worse, when I 'googled' the words 'plunging' and 'plunge' (To get [...]
    Posted: November 18, 2006, 11:20am EST
  • Ooh, I could crush a grape!

    Number of comments: 2
    Much like Stu Francis when he would exclaim about his grape crushing desires, I'm furious beyond the ken of mortal man/insanely irate/angry/slightly peeved/in reality don't really care much but thought I would grump anyway about Thorn bicycle manufacturers.

    As you might have [...]
    Posted: November 17, 2006, 6:30am EST
  • The Evil Tread: Dead by Dawes

    Number of comments: 3
    Okay, so it's a contrived and appalling title but I'm apologising to nobody. It is vaguely cycling related as, continuing part of last Wednesday's babbling novel, we're getting that bit closer to getting a tandem now. We're still (Sigh) waiting to hear back about the second-hand' [...]
    Posted: November 14, 2006, 2:22pm EST
  • Big fat lazy swine etc.

    Again I've been very slack and slovenly when it comes to my writing here but I've also been extremely lazy this year when it comes to my cycling. Having hoped to get somewhere around eight or nine thousand miles on my bike this year and at [...]
    Posted: November 08, 2006, 12:42pm EST

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