Delayed Gratification

Now I’m only a mile and a couple of days away from my Neo Primato frame and fork. The good folks at ATA Cycles in Cambridge are just waiting for my 2Nut Chris King headset to be delivered and then I can pick up my new ride. My fetish for doing things in a traditional [...]

At last it’s here………

Eight weeks has slowly become sixteen, but at last, my De Rosa Neo Primato is here. I suppose it’s worth waiting for good things; I bet the Pope went up to Michelangelo more than a couple of times and asked him when he’d finish painting the ceiling. But I’m sure he was happy with the [...]

Getting out on the Atlantis

As I’ll probably be taking my Atlantis to Iceland I thought that I should get out on it a bit more often. My Atlantis is a 54.5cm frame so it has 26″ wheels and I’m using 47-559 Schwalbe Marathon tyres on it for winter riding. So here it is on a shopping trip. This also [...]

The seed of a tour grows best in mid-winter

Boston has been covered in snow and the temperatures have been below zero for a couple of weeks now so my cycling has been limited to a couple of short trips to the supermarket. So what’s a bicycle tourist to do. Well there’s always planning for next summer. This usually involves lots of time spent [...]

Instant Pillow

After a long day’s ride I just want to rest my head and get some sleep. However, getting comfortable on a sleeping pad can be difficult, especially when it comes to pillows. Many people carry a blow up or compressible pillow and some just stuff some clothes into a bag and put that under the [...]

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