Today's Ride

2manyoranges · Jun 4, 2022

For sure keep an eye out for any symptoms of concussion - visual anomalies, continued headache, feeling nauseous, etc - if the helmet deformed then there was a lot of energy involved in the incident. Were you conscious throughout? Concussion is now becoming more recognised as a serious issues, and the mechanism of rotational brain injury now far better understood. Keep an eye on symptoms and don't be afraid to go to your GP.

Retrorider63 · Jun 5, 2022

Hello. Thanks for the above advice. Yes concious throughout having closer inspection of heat it looks as though the lip below sun visor turned inwards and that fits the shape of the cut exactly. Felt OK afterwards it was my pride that got hurt the most.
Tim

slackboy · Jun 5, 2022

Staying in Berlin with friends this weekend, so rude not to do a ride along the former Berlin wall. This is the outer boundary in Brandenburg, now a very well used cycle path.
The cycle infrastructure here makes me very jealous. Virtually every house has bikes parked outside and using a bike as transport is just part of life. There must have been literally hundreds of people on bikes using the same route as me today. Some for fun, others just to run errands.

And the bike? It was a bit rubbish to be honest, loose headset and in need of a bit of tlc. But that really wasn't the point on this ride

2manyoranges · Jun 5, 2022

Slackboy why is there a small alien creature emerging from the soil behind the bike? Did it manage to bite you?

CassidyAce · Jun 5, 2022

After doing about 80 miles on the road bike last week it was a real pleasure to get on a fat tyre 26-er again today. No picking the least bone-shaking lines through badly finished (barely finished) road repairs today. Oh no! It felt like riding on fluffy pillows of soft loveliness. Not as fast, but it felt like luxury.

British racing green and a brown saddle for that old school look. And Her Maj, with the corgis and Queen's Guard: a fine piece of British eccentricity.

al-onestare · Jun 6, 2022

A lot going on the last few days, not rat-bag establishment related. Got a beautiful morning ride in last Thursday. Wednesday through to Friday night were wall to wall blue skies and golden sunshine...not hot...but beautiful and enough to get a tan.

Best of all, I finally got the garage set-up. Over three days we cleared what felt like 3 cubic tons of dust and filth, got it cleared, cleaned and painted, then built the racks and shelves back up. Immensely satisfying.

raidan73 · Jun 6, 2022

al-onestare said:
A lot going on the last few days, not rat-bag establishment related. Got a beautiful morning ride in last Thursday. Wednesday through to Friday night were wall to wall blue skies and golden sunshine...not hot...but beautiful and enough to get a tan.

Best of all, I finally got the garage set-up. Over three days we cleared what felt like 3 cubic tons of dust and filth, got it cleared, cleaned and painted, then built the racks and shelves back up. Immensely satisfying.

Garage is looking good mate. I will have to ride over and get a better look! Did you collect the Kapu yet?

al-onestare · Jun 6, 2022

Kapu collected and will get the glory shots this week pending work and weather

Markybeau · Jun 6, 2022

...was only short...

My recovery has taken an inexplicable leap forward. The physiotherapist and the breathing clinic are pleased and have encouraged me to step up my activity levels, with the proviso that I listen to my body. I'm not allowed to push myself hard like I used to. Normality beckons, if still a long way off.

I had an errand to run. A couple of miles, maybe three, and I could have managed more. Twelve months ago I would have scoffed at that distance. Today I feel very different.

rwm1962 · Jun 7, 2022

Being a bit jaded was the impetus to get my ebike build sorted out. It had been lying in bits for a good few months. I ride to work but on days when I'm a bit knackered the ebike saves a tedious bus trip or taking the car & still makes me smile.

It's got some speed. I inadvertently got a Strava ebike KOM yesterday (didn't know there was such a thing!) & knocked another 32 seconds off it today. That's me done - seems a bit daft as ebikes aren't all built equal! I hammer the assistance on the way home as there's a fair bit of uphill & I want the battery run down so I can charge it from a low level. Just got to get the dead flies off my lid & beard now.

Back on the regular bike next week. Don't want to get used to this!

Along the Tyne & up Blaydon Burn