The man in the straw hat serves me a clotted cream icecream I went for a bike ride this afternoon, and ended up at Earlswood Lakes. Lovely and scenic, only five miles leisurely cycling down the road through a very nice bit of countryside, and it had a big craft village where people do very [...]
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Jake on a bike in the countryside – click to enlarge I went for a bike ride today, and Jake decided to tag along with me. We went out into the countryside out the back of Dickens Heath and around Tidbury Green. I thought I’d try out my new panorama thing on my iPhone. This [...]
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Part of this building fell on my head today I was cycling to work today, and went past the long-overdue dismantling of this hi-rise people container. The crane was knocking bits off, and they mostly fell to the ground safely behind that pretty wall. Mostly. A piece the size of a grape bounced off my [...]
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A lovely day in Dickens Heath The bike’s been in the shop getting fixed over the past few days, so it was good that its return has coincided with a lovely, sunny day. I was able to go for a good long cycle this morning, and as you can see, there’s not a cloud in [...]
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Another secret place discovered The more I ride my bike around this neighbourhood, the more I discover that this neighbourhood looks more like this than like, well, a neighbourhood. You can be cycling down a perfectly ordinary residential street, pop through a gate between some trees, and suddenly, you have all this weird, hidden public [...]
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Picnic at Bromford Junction Yes, another bike ride photo. I’ve been doing a lot of cycling on my holiday, and today I decided to make a bit of an afternoon of it and take a picnic. Our friend Jo brought a bottle of wine over for dinner last night, and there was enough left for [...]
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Cycling along the canal to work Despite being on holiday, I had to go in to work today to get a couple of things sorted out. I took the opportunity to go along the canal route – at least from Bordesley as far as the Aston railway station. I still have to do the dreary [...]
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I tried a new route to work yesterday. I was trying to maximise the proportion of the journey that I could spend along the canal, and minimise the amount of time spent dicing with death along Stratford Road. So I took Rusty to the bike shop for a bit of new kit, and some advice [...]
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Tagged: Bicycle, Birmingham, Cycling, Google Map, Personal
This is Rusty. He’s my current preferred mode of transportation. Or at least he would be, if he had one more component: a bicycle chain. He did have one when I bought him. He cost me £15 at the city markets. Worth every penny too. I’d had nothing but trouble with that other bike I [...]
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Tagged: Aston, Bicycle, Bicycle chain, Birmingham, Cycling, Personal, Sports, Sports Direct
