Author: Buck

I got that turbo trainer for us. It’s proving to be completely impractical to try and get Wendy’s bike on it. Which is a bugger. The idea is you take your back wheel off and mount the bike on the turbo, running your chain on to a gear cassette (cogs) mounted directly on the turbo.…

I’ve been eating humble pie for breakfast, dinner and tea since I started training. I used to scorn low gear wobblers, put it in top gear and pedal you lazy bastards! When I started training for my first Outlaw, on my first day, I did a 51 mile ride and a 13 mile run. A…

What was I thinking? After the painfest of the first Outlaw tri I said I was never doing another. After the near death experience of baking my arse off at my second Outlaw tri I said I wasn’t doing another and meant it.   The swimming (2.4 miles) bores me, the riding is painful and…

I was resigned to selling my bikes after the police bust. I can’t say I was happy about it, but I was getting my head around cycling and maybe triathlon again. The copper said there was a chance I could do an awareness course, but Mr Google said I couldn’t. I was expecting big points.…

Well, it was all going so well. It was a relatively warm and dry day, the first for a few weeks. Good riding weather in other words. So I opened it up a bit. I still haven’t got my plod detector working. Can you see where this going? Busted. Apparently the plod didn’t bust me…