Tuesday, 1 July 2025

Not even close to on-target

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Sigh. Remember those cycling goals for 2025? Complete 1,800 miles distance Complete 55,000 feet of elevation Record an annual Eddi...
Monday, 2 June 2025

Weight...wait...

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The Tank™'s diet continues, with another saddle change. I picked up a secondhand Selle Italia Kevlar Gel Flow saddle on Ebay for the pri...
Tuesday, 15 April 2025

Helpfully/unhelpfully

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As you'll know from recent posts, I'm trying to shave some flab off The Tank™. The next obvious candidate for an easy weight loss is...
Tuesday, 1 April 2025

Behind on all counts

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Remember those cycling goals for 2025? Complete 1,800 miles distance Complete 55,000 feet of elevation Record an annual Eddington ...
Wednesday, 26 March 2025

The Tank™ is on a diet

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As mentioned last time , I'm trying to breathe a bit of life into The Tank™, a 30yr-old steel mountain bike that has been through the mi...
Monday, 10 March 2025

Life in the old dog yet?

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You may have seen me refer to The Tank™ on here before. Well, here it is: The only thing older and more clapped out than this bike is its r...
Tuesday, 14 January 2025

My anti-fascist buff...

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...is not a phrase I ever imagined I would use, yet here we are: Okay, it's not my first choice of colour, but if there's a buff t...
Friday, 10 January 2025

"I can see clearly now the rain has gone...."

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"...I can see all lobster-claws in my way..." That is how the song goes, right? All of which terrible punning serves only to int...
Monday, 6 January 2025

Partially met

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You know when you have your annual appraisal at work, and you're supposed to say how many of your objectives for the year you actually m...
Wednesday, 4 December 2024

Not looking good

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Remember those cycling goals for 2024? Complete 2,000 miles distance Complete 56,000 feet of elevation Record an annual Eddington ...