by admin | Jan 8, 2014 | Cycling adventures, Cycling the 50 states of USA
Greetings Five-O fans, and welcome to Part 2 of a journey thorough the South. This week, we’re going deep into Dixie. While you were all pulling crackers, exchanging sock gifts, and dribbling through a post turkey coma, I was riding a bejewelled, tinsel-tastic pink...
by admin | Jan 5, 2014 | Cycling adventures, Cycling the 50 states of USA
This week, the Director at the Department of Destiny decided that I’d got a little too big for my Cowboy boots. He sensed my belief that the final ten days would be a mere formality, and so plunged his hands deep into the weather well, and began drawing out: “Flood?...
by admin | Dec 29, 2013 | Cycling adventures, Cycling the 50 states of USA
I’d heard many things about The South. I was promised I’d be chased by dogs. That I’d ride on roads with no shoulders, get a yearly dose of bigotry and make the acquaintance of hicks with no teeth. And yet, that that all of this would be curiously juxtaposed with the...
by admin | Dec 6, 2013 | Cycling adventures, Cycling the 50 states of USA
BOREAS THE UGLYSince the incident in Iowa where I set out to ride 120 miles, and ended up almost hyperthermic and in a motel after 50, I’d resolved to be more sensible with any decision to ride in wind and rain. It’s not a question of being ‘ard. It’s a question of...
by admin | Nov 20, 2013 | Cycling adventures, Cycling the 50 states of USA
“This could be a complete disaster. Or it could be fun. Either way – let’s be ‘avin it.”Wise words from younger sibling, Jonty, as he boarded a plane to join me in Boston at the start of the week. This is the sibling that deposited a brown coloured gift in the...
