Tag Archives: Cycling

…even for those who don’t do it! What better message for everyone as I continue my preparations. Picture courtesy of Massimo Mazzone in Italy who I will be meeting up with south of Rome. (Nice example of an object pronoun in French as well )

When I first posted this picture, the title was “Bad cycle storage design” but actually there is nothing wrong with the design. There is everything wrong with the placement of the bike sheds; at the back of a brand new prestigious development in Reading town centre (soon to be the new headquarters of Yell), between the railway line and the building itself. OK, there is a CCTV camera on the post but why don’t developers and architects see having such facilities as something to be proud of and put them at the front of the building where security is so much better….

This is a pothole. But not just any pothole. It is the pothole that my bike has fallen into twice this week. I say “fallen into” in the loosest sense of the word – the hole is probably 4ocms long but when you are cycling in the dark, it is difficult to spot until, with a thud of the metal rim of my front wheel against the tarmac edge of the hole, its presence it made more than abundantly clear. I took this picture earlier this evening; the passing motorists probably thought I was bonkers. Perhaps I am.