It’s been an expensive week at Servants Quarters. For a start, we’ve bought a lot of kit – mostly from Rose Bikes in Bocholt, Germany. Elly’s haul includes front and rear dynamo lights, a SON hub dynamo to power them, and a USB-Werk to convert the dynamo’s AC sinusoidal output to constant 5V DC to charge USB devices (her Kindle and jPhone). Continue reading
Another attempt to get my legs used to pedalling a laden bike. Snow and ice prevented cycling in Holyrood Park, so I cycled to Musselburgh and back. I felt that I was still abominably slow. However, using Elly’s panniers, which do not protrude above the pannier rack, meant that my sleeping mat was better positioned and so Lev did not feel top-heavy and ready to fall over.
 Elly’s pannier’s don’t protrude |
 Mine do |
Here’s the inevitable cyclemeter map.
It’s about 3 months until we set of for our Iron Curtain Trail cycle. We’ve done a number of long-ish cycles (about 500 miles) but have always stayed in hotels and hostels. The ICT will be much harder – over 4000 miles and camping most nights – so there’s a lot of preparation to do. So today I did my first shakedown-cycle (2 laps of Holyrood Park), to try to learn more about cycling a fully-laden bike, what and how to pack, etc.
Here’s the cyclometer-map, and here’s the GoPro video:
I regularly cycle to from Queensferry Street to my work at Edinburgh Napier University’s Merchiston campus. Having recently cycled from IJmuiden to Köln, I wanted to compare the two experiences.
In short, cycling in Edinburgh is utter rubbish. There is no way to avoid mixing with heavy traffic. Potholes abound. Cycle-lanes begin and end with no apparent reason, and lane-markings have faded out. Compare this nonsense with cycling in Dutch and German major cities.
In and around Utrecht: Elly says it all here. Continue reading
I think these two screenshots say it all: Continue reading
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