summer no more

well winter clothes out of hibination,next it will be chest infection and antibiotics.at least with the water proofs on you dont get cold,you still get wet but with sweat rather than cold rain,wonder weather i could cycle in my surfing wet suit,would anybody notice its not lycra it still shows all the lumps and bumps,then there would be reports of whale riding bike from the deans household,who already think i ride a trike to spread the load on the road

heres one to see if he reads my blog,dean has nearly finished putting the roof on his dads house,only ever seen the lad working up there,but still thats what lads are for(slaves)

why is it that on the days i dont ride its fine and on the days i do it rains,i know i need to train in the cold and rain but it would be so nice to ride in the sun,even when i went camping the other week it bloody rained,infact even when i go fishing it rains,so thats the weather forcasty sorted for the next couple of weekends rain rain and more rain,at least i only have one more fishing match this year,i hate fishing in the rain ,but cycling can be refreshing so long as you can keep warm,

baked tators and sea food,seems to be my diet at the moment and i just cant loose weight,may need to go back on the JD and coke ,cut the beer out,just so expensive and it goes down to easy,mind dont seam to wake up heavy headed on JD but the coke tends to upset my sleeping need decaf coke,diet cke wonder what water tastes like ,yuk boring,vodka tonic, try that or gin and tonic,mind then id get deppressed dont need that,may just keep with the beer

seem to be rambling a bit,jumping from subject to subject,just about repainted my fleet of vans into new comany colours,lets hope it brings in extra work to make it worth while

,looks such a nice day starting why cant i just lock the yard gates and go on my trike for the day,because its my time to work,see even talking to my self now,think i might tidy office,unless i can find something else to do,

must go work calling

heavy haulage to edale

well my first trip out with trailer loaded with camping gear went reasonably well(but very wet),it certainly taught me i need to re jig my plans.the new tent worked well but when it rains there is no where to cook apart from out in the open.think i need to make shelter of some discription.cooking spagbol in the rain aint fun,but i managed it even if i didnt have any seasoning (very bland),i must get a kettle need to be able to brew without using pans that need washing between coarses.i also need to rethink what i need as the whole trike n trailer is far to heavy.and living in sheffield id found out as soon as id set of as its up hill which ever way you go and boy did it hurt.by the time id got to fox house my thighs were on fire,still edale in just over 3 hrs was a good result at that weight.il rethink then have another go in a few weeks.i think the camping trailer must be a magnet as iv never had so many people wanting to chat as i cycled along a bit like old times riding and chatting takes your mind of the feeling in your legs,so thankyou to every one slowed down for a chat.

CLIMATE CHANGE

well monday night training run was very very wet.everthing on the bike got soaked.so i have everything hanging round office drying.then last night i was riding in shorts n tee shirt till 11pm,next thing ill be down with a cold and on antibiotics,cycle camping at the weekend looks like its going to be wet!but i have to go to get my practise in and make sure all my old and new kit is ok,and this time ill pack everything in plastic bags to keep the rain out.had the trailer on back of new trike and it tows a treat,quite looking forward to camping havent been since kellie and me went round cornwall about 10 years ago,but the gear was split between the two of us and this time i have to carry it all,and with what i have to go she must have carried her share at the time

sheffield cycle friendly! what a joke

fishing meeting last night,so attercliffe to burncross(grenoside) wasnt going to take long,so i opted for the long route and to take the ice on a few tracks.following sign clearly marked as cycle route they are full of stupid fearn access barriers not trike friendly at all.i kept having to lift trike over horse gates as it wont fit through half of them so by the end of my ride i was well pissed off,if this is the sign of things to come it looks like jogle will be on roads only as i cant see me stripping all camping gear off at every barrier,

where?

what has happened to all the old mates from the ctc hard rider days,or even easy rider days,alan kirk iv found out is more into trains these days.ken i still get my yearly news letter from,apart from pat wilson all the other names from sheffield seem to be alien to me,i know richard miall has gone(R.I.P)and shiela simpson is over donny,these last 12 months of training bring back many memories of face and rides long gone.where have all the years and friends gone,is work work work realy worth all the effort,or should i have oppted for the simple life and not joined the rat race

summer has been n gone

cheers caroline at least im not chatting to my self,although i do know people read my waffle but just dont own up to it.out on the roads last night felt like flaming winter,wind rain and when wet bloody cold,lucky i had a change of waterproofs that were a little warmer,looks like the shorts are going away soon n back to leggings yuk.although looking at the sky a presant ill hope for an india summer(or should that be i wish)

old banger to rolls royce

cornwall in august,lovely time of year if ur a duck,malc broke his anckle two days prior to going so that left me and julie,we took bikes thinking we would get a few miles in but julie is a fine weather cyclist(very fine weather)so we managed about 10 miles on the monday,tues rain set in so of to ice recumbents to have a look round their show room which turned out to be a tent in the corner of the workshop,chris the owner was very obliging showing me their different trike and then proceeded to get them out for me to ride round the carpark.after trying every model trike they had in there,after which he offered the loan of two trikes for the weekend one with electric motor for julie,so saturday morning saw us heading up the devron trail truro to portreath and back the 2nd good day.the performance of the ice adventurer 2 was brilliant so much so that monday morning a nice shiney red one built to my spec was ordered and collected monday afternoon,well impressed with the team at ice.

12 months and counting

well 49 today,one year of training left,getting fitter faster but no thinner,comments of cuddly and big boned are welcome but realisticly i need to shed more weight.

got the trike ready for road test after modifications and i dont mean an extra axle to carry the weight as david already asked.also wondered if road bike might have to be an option although realy want to go on trike,will have a couple of weekends with camping as a trial run soon.

started getting my camping gear together but with one daughter the other side of the world in asia ,finding whats left of my equipment after both girls had done duke of edinbrough awards is proving difficult and the fact that julie has a briliant storage system in the cot loft that resembles a stuff sack.

begining to wonder if trying to find a companion for the trip may be an option but finding some one who wants to cycle camp unsupported and take 20 days to do it may be difficult

if anyone actualy looks at this will try post more often

well back on track,all the wounds of hitting the deck have healed,was just looking through other peoples blogs and wonders if anyone actualy reads these,or is it a place for private thoughts to just get lost,i should start rambling in tangents it would make sense to who,nechlectavarda,flash from the past gone never to be re lived or can it.male menapause what at 48 and three quarters,too young surely,back to the cycling why did i stop all those years ago,it would have been so much easier now .days are getting longer(yipee)but no warmer,that many clothes on can hardly breath,still when it does warm up ill look thinner even if its only because there is no padding under my jacket,oh to be back in shorts as well,enough ramblings for now not that anyone will care ,talk to my self later got to get back to work.bye for now