With a couple of hours spare in my hectic retirement schedule, I thought I’d take the chance to haul Kermit out of the garage and pedal around a couple of the local landmarks. Our journey would take us around a 15km circuit, dropping off the raised beach of Larbert and Stenhousemuir down onto the pancake [...]
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My Travels with Kermit – An Introduction
September 3, 2011
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Oh, it’s fun having a bike again. As you rattle along (me not the bike) there’s nothing quite like the feel of the wind in your face and the taste of flies in your gob. Then there are the hills – the giant sleeping demons of the cycling world that can explode every leg muscle [...]
Read more…10 years on.
August 13, 2011
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Today I gave the Lean Mean Green Machine its first airing…up and down the cul-de-sac a few times. For the first time in 10 years I was on the public highway (just) on a bike. There is a video of this momentous event but, given that I didn’t fall off or even lurch significantly towards [...]
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