It seems vaseline is the answer! Yesterday Elly and I cycled from Glasgow to Edinburgh – 57 miles. I’ll write more about it later. There’s a few snippets for now, however:

• I’ve replaced the lights stolen by some git in Worcester: Lev Davidovitch now has
  • on the front
    • skullies on the left and right handlebar-drops
    • skully on the head tube
    • frog on the head tube
    • micro-LED light on the handlebar
  • on the rear of the pannier rack, from right to left
    • knog
    • skully
    • knog
  • on the rear of my helmet
    • micro-LED light

    (I’ve shown the colours of the lights’ plastics, not the colours they give out.) So if anyone hits me, I’ll know it was deliberate!

• Photos from cycling in Austria are here.
• I’ve signed up for the Tour de Forth: a fairly leisurely 70 miles. I hope to do it in 6 hours. I know Lev has the cruising speed to achieve this. He certainly wanted to run at 14 to 16 mph on Scottish cycle-paths (now there’s a joke I’ll blog about later) yesterday. Whether I have the stamina, leg-strength and vaseline supplies is another question…