Fiets! Let’s Cycle like the Dutch!!
Sustainable travel and cycling in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, and the wider UK | The personal cycling stories of BicycleBen
BicycleBen’s personal cycling activities.
On Saturday 03 June 2023, CycleFest was held in Coventry as part of the larger MotoFest event. For this, half of the city’s ring road was closed to motor traffic to give a roughly 4km cycling course open to riders of all ages and abilities.
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On a recent break away in the Norfolk Broads, as a family we decided to hire some bikes and go for a casual ride – the first time The Boy (still under eight years old) has been out on quiet country roads, and his longest ride yet coming in at just over 13 miles, with about seven miles off road.
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It goes without saying that 2020 has been an extraordinary year, one that started amongst the rumblings of concerns about a virus that was sweeping across Asia and breaking into Italy, and that quickly turned into a global crisis of the likes that few of us have experienced before. January was rung in as normal but within a few weeks,
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Back in April, I wrote about my experiences with Swytch – a company which brought an electric cycle conversion kit to market with the USP that it was easy to switch between an electric and regular cycle thanks to a simple docking mechanism. The article was less than complimentary, detailing the unfortunate issues I’d had with the product and company
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Back in December 2017, only seven months after starting cycling, I had a bad ride – it was a windy day and I really struggled up a big hill on the way home to the point where I decided electric assist would be a good idea. Coincidentally, at the same time, I found a crowd-funded project by an upstart company
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Happy new year and decade to all readers and followers! One year ago as part of my new year resolutions for 2019, I set myself a number of objectives. It’s now time to review those targets and set new ones for the year ahead. The key focus for me last year was around cycling – which I’d only been doing
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My latest maintenance learning is all about the rear derailleur and gearing. On a ride a short while ago, I noticed my gears were skipping – phantom changes and unresponsive or delayed shifting. This was particularly noticeable when the drivetrain was under torque i.e., when climbing. I could be in an easier gear and find the bike shifting up to
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Here we are in a new year, and as always this is a good time to review the past twelve months. 2018 was my first full year of active cycling and so, whilst I inevitably compare to my first 6-7 months of cycling throughout 2017, I’ve now got my first annual benchmark.
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A couple of weeks back, I bought a set of lights to replace my older set, which last winter, I had decided the front was really to weak to see by when out after dark. The set I chose was really an impulse buy due to a very attractive offer for both the front and rear lamps for just £20
Continue readingFollowing my write-up of my personal longest bike ride from Nuneaton to Leicester and back, the highlights and comments from the outbound trip are available for your viewing pleasure. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your views on these types of videos), the camera ran out of memory for the trip back!
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