Cycling. Children. Glasgow.
Thought I’d treat you to an exceptionally dull summary of a post I made on YACF, pondering whether helmets offer any real benefit on a low recumbent. As an initial disclaimer, this is not intended to sway you opinion one way of the other. Helmet wearing on bicycles is one of (if not the) most […]
I’ve had many odd remarks thrown at me on the recumbent, but this is probably the most bizarre. Said by a fairly professional looking business woman as she stalked in from of me in queueing traffic this evening, with genuine scorn in her eyes. I’m going to put my lack of witty repartee down to […]
Brand new set of lightweight slick tyres are waiting for me at the post office, bought to replace the bomb-proof but bomb-heavy Schwalbe marathons on at the moment. Because speed is always the sensible choice… Sadly the sink must be unblocked before I’m allowed to collect them.
Three weeks in, I think I’ve more or less got the hang of manoeuvring in traffic without being a liability. The bit I’ve found hardest to get used to is stopping and starting, mainly because below about 5kph my balance gets a little dicey. I thought I’d jot down my thoughts on the subject here, in case […]
We were blessed today with one of the West Coast’s world beating instant rainstorms, of the type that has drivers hunched against the windscreen staring through a world of spray. On that note, a useful link to various ways of mounting lights to recumbents. This becomes interesting when mounting lights on the handlebars just serves […]
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