Comments for Ste's Blog

Comment on Dartmoor Classic by rob

rob — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:51:35 +0000

Fantastic work – although the term “sportive” sounds a little bit too much for me just now. All in good time though!

Comment on New Job by rob

rob — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:40:43 +0000

Sheesh, that is a whole lot of bandwidth! (I found out at the weekend that a friend who used to work for Virgin assigned his flat a 20MB connection with single user contention… I was very jealous needless to say)

Comment on Moon Rings by rob

rob — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:20:40 +0000

Wow – I’d never even heard of such things. The natural world never ceases to amaze…

Comment on The Niagara Descent (on a Road Bike) by Steve James

Steve James — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:36:51 +0000

I know what you mean. That extra delay before the brakes bite can add that extra bit of excitement when meeting a 4×4 coming the other way up a narrow lane!

I just had an exciting encounter with a bollard on the way home this evening. At the bottom of a steep (and I mean steep) hill there’s a little hump-backed bridge with a pair of chunky wooden bollards in front of it. I came in a bit hot, hit a slick patch of soggy leaves and managed to briefly lock the back wheel. Wobbled my way to a halt by collapsing into one of the bollards. Zero points for style there. But don’t worry, I managed to dump most of my momentum with my left arm against the bollard so the bike’s fine. Phew.

I don’t know. I’m finding it too easy to lock the back wheel on this bike, and I can also accidentally slide the back out on a tight turn. Didn’t used to do that on OB. Maybe a combination of more powerful brakes and lighter total weight. The tyres are pretty much the same. I need to move more of the braking effort to the front I think. Stay tuned to find out when I manage to throw myself into a hedge…

Comment on The Niagara Descent (on a Road Bike) by rob

rob — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:47:57 +0000

I got caught in a sudden storm about a mile away from home a couple of nights ago – total madness, the rain was bouncing back up off the road. Had my first experience of “ooh these brakes aren’t quite so effective now”… No spills thankfully though!

Comment on Ste Gets a Bike. Vroom. by ste

ste — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:26:07 +0000

Thanks Rob! I managed to take the bike out yesterday, even though it’s not ‘perfect’ now. Still loved it.

Isn’t WordPress a breeze? I should have done this years ago…

Cheers,
Steve.

Comment on Ste Gets a Bike. Vroom. by rob

rob — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:43:52 +0000

Hi Steve, glad to hear about your bit of “bike joy” too, although gutted that you’ve got to wait for a new shifter now!

Glad my little bit of bogging made it onto your horizon – bike and blog envy too, you flatter me!

Happy Riding!