Sleep, sleep, where for art thou sleep, woke at two needing a pain killer and now at twenty past three I'm still wide awake bright eyed and bushy tailed. If my Good lady wasn't asleep downstairs I'd get up and make a brew, I'm feeling a lot better than I was but could do with some shut eye. I think I'll look at the wordle.
I saw signs of you being around the forum just before I turned the lights out here. I thought that the pain from your dental treatment might be to blame. I hope you get a snooze in today and a decent sleep tonight!
I feel odd because I have been up for hours but it is still only just after noon. I got to sleep just after 04:00 but Plusnet woke me up with an email at 08:45, telling me that my new router is on the way. It wasn't worth me going back to sleep because I had a blood test booked for just after 10 o/c.
I had several places to visit and couldn't be bothered to keep locking and unlocking my bike so I walked to the health centre for my test. (Result fine, thanks!) The nurse doing the test said that it was a lovely day and asked if I would be going out for a bike ride later. (She told me that she remembered that I normally turn up with a bike helmet on...)
I
AM going to be riding later - to Hebden Bridge for a meal with my pal over there. I'm thinking of calling in at Blazing Saddles bike shop first to see if they might do the fork replacement on my CAADX. I was going to get it done at
@PaulSB's LBS in Preston a couple of years ago but Covid put me off. It's about time that I got it sorted out. I could still go to Preston, but Blazing Saddles would be far more convenient.
I have to decide what to do about my noisy singlespeed bike. It is hard deciding what to try first. Many of the potential cures involve spending money or a lot of faffing about and getting covered in oil and/or grease... I think one thing to try would be using the rear wheel from another bike and see if the noise persists. If it
DOES then I would have eliminated the original rear wheel as the source of the noise. If the noise stopped then I'd know the wheel was the source.
Speaking of ebikes I was astonished by the number we saw in the Lakes, mainly big heavy bikes with the long heavy looking battery. We see plenty here in Lancashire as well. I'm beginning to think they're use is changing completely as I see more and more people who aren't pedalling whatsoever and seem to use their ebikes as a slower moped. I'd say it's becoming rare to see people using the assist when needed as most seem to use it for the whole ride. I think this is an interesting development.
I saw an example of that In Scotland 6 or 7 years ago. I hadn't noticed that a cyclist's MTB had a motor until he pulled away without pedalling from the village store we were in front of. This was on a perfectly flat stretch of road so there was no obvious reason not to pedal. I thought at the time that unless he had some obscure health problem he was being pretty bloody lazy. He had walked up to the bike with no apparent difficulty so I doubt that he was
unable to pedal. Still, it was none of my business and I didn't spend much time dwelling on it.
I'm having a bit of a flashback. I'm going to see if I posted about it at the time...
Not long back a 20 mile bimble but it's just such hard work now.
