Category: Musings

  • doing the rounds . .

    a buddy phoned .. “I’m on my way” The big Eurobike Show happening at Frankfurt in Germany can be just a one day to go, see, get back home late evening: if you are a well organised visitor. For doing the business from UK air travel is easy-peasy. Looking back it wasn’t quite as is… Continue reading

  • of that bicycle man

    I cried at breakfast on the day Senator John Kennedy said in Massachusetts that he was to seek the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. Asked why I was crying, I told my Mother “Fausto Coppi has died”. That was January 2, 1960. I had been out on my bike that morning, on… Continue reading

  • Give yourself a chance . . .

    It’s coming that ‘soon is the weekend time’ when hopes of whether the weather will or won’t is a trust, so let’s face it: we can do nothing to change what’ll drop or not, be in your face or that tailwind every bicycle rider enjoys. Same on the camping field as well. This weekend coming… Continue reading