On my lunchtime ride today,I pedaled through Chilfrome on my way.Up the hill I rode with glee,To avoid the valley where it might be wet, you see. The temperature today was fine,Around thirteen degrees, so divine.The wind from the west blew strong,But the hedge blocked it, so I didn’t mind it long. From the entrance to a farm up high,I saw a view that caught my eye.Cattistock, in all its glory,Made me stop and marvel at the story. So glad I took this road today,On my lunchtime ride, what a lovely way,To clear my head and stretch my legs,And enjoy the beauty that nature begs. I asked ChatGPT to re-write my paragraph into that poem… I’m not that good..
I decided to do a long ride on Friday lunch thing. This was it.. It wwas cold, frost was still on the northern slopes of the hills or in the shadow of the hedges.
We have given away the bike trailer that we were given for Abigail, but of cause having made a bracket for my bike it wouldn’t fit anyone else’s bike, so I have made a bracket for new recipients bike: I have made a better job of this than I did for my own bike. This one is steel and shouldn’t suffer with the bending and fatigue issues that I had with my previous bracket. I hope that by giving this away that we will get Abigail on a tag along type bike in an effort to get her riding.
The bike trailer that we have used to have a clamp arrangement that was meant to attached to the rear trailing arm right before the rear axle. This worked just about okay on the Claud Butler, short of the fact that it struggled to grip the small bore tube that the bike was made from. Then Dad kindly gave me his bike, so I tried it on that and it wouldn’t fit in the right location due to the disk brake calliper being there. So I set about making a custom mount. First off I stripped off the existing clamp arrangement. I forgot to get a before photo. It just so happened that there are two threaded holes at the rear of the frame that I guess might be for things such as a mud guard, pannier rack or kiddie seat. So I utilised those and just bent a bit […]
I think that pretty much tells the story. I bought this bike about 4 or 5 years ago for £75, thinking I would ride to work. I never did, but I did ride about Bracknell a little, I enjoyed it, but now I am riding it a few days a week and feel that it’s time to replace the tyres, chain, cassette and probably put two new tubes in it also. Wild times, I know. Obviously I’ll likely fit the very cheapest of cheap components so as not to totally write the bike off. This shows how much the chain has stretched:
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