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Continue reading →: When in Spain…… don’t expect the highway authorities or planners to look after the touring cyclist. Today we wanted to cycle from Murcia to Lorca. This should have been a relatively easy 70k run. However, opinions differed at to whether it was possible. It seemed that a 10k stretch of the old…
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Continue reading →: To Via Verde or not?We did about 65 K today from Guardamar del Segura to Murcia. Our plan was to follow the Via Verde bike and hike corridor to Orihuela and then take to the road. We Made a promising start. The cycle road was a bit rough, but it was great to be…
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Continue reading →: El Atet to GuardamarWe started the day with some bike setting up. Jacqui’s front brake needed a tweak and the sat navs needed setting up. We set out about 10.00 in temperatures that required a second layer – the sun was out, but the wind was a tad chill. We took a coffee…
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Continue reading →: Arrived AlicanteWe flew Glasgow to Alicante today, arriving about an hour late after we were decanted from the plane as it suffered a fuel leak on pulling back from the stand. Panic? What panic? We were back on in an hour and on our way soon after. This was our first…
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Continue reading →: CTC and Hi-viz clothing: as clear as they think?Some ‘expert advice’ in response to a letter in the current CTC “Cycle” magazine caught my attention: and rather got my dander up. CTC member David Watson wrote in lamenting the organisation’s unwillingness to recommend cyclists wear bright clothing and the current fashion for very dark cycle apparel. In response,…
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Continue reading →: Spring CleaningOK so I may be just a tad on the optimistic side, but with Spring and a new year ahead of me I thought it was time to give, “Pedalling on Regardless” a bit of a spring clean. Or at least a wash and brush up. So it is out…
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Continue reading →: David Bowie, cycling companion
David Bowie provided the accompaniment to my best ever cycling day. Jacqui and I were 11 days out from Paris, cycling towards the Pyrenees and Spain. We were a mixture of ecstatic and terrified. We knew we were going to complete the French leg with our arrival in St. Jean…
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Continue reading →: Eat sleep cycle – better than it sounds
My bedtime book these nights is Anna Hughes’s, Eat Sleep Cycle: a bike ride around the coast of Britain. It’s proving to be something of a treat. To be honest, my expectations were not all that high. The title is perhaps a little weak? The cover did not inspire. I feared…
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Continue reading →: All things are relative
We cycle in Portugal quite a bit and have done so for many years, so we are well used to encounters with dogs in remoter areas. Often the first indication I get is when Jacqui comes by me at a speed that would do Mark Cavendish credit. However, when I…
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Continue reading →: Algoz – Disaster (almost) Averted
We are just back from a short 5 day cycle-based break in Portugal and 4 nights in London: Very different experiences, but both very good for us. We retrieved the Scott bikes from the loft at my sisters and gave them their usual extensive mechanical check over – 5 minutes…
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