wrist breaks are pain ful and even after 4 years mine still feels dodgy esp in winter, i had the pleasure of 3 rugby player put their weight on my wrist. i ended up playing on for about 5 minutes before i had to call it a day.

Well it's new season time and new bike time

Dumped my old school frame and got me a nice new one and moved some bits across.

My first TT was last week in drizzle/wind/7 degrees. Went round in 31:17 which was 3 seconds slower than my first ride of last year. A great start though considering the conditions.


This week the weather was much kinder, 15 degrees, dry, light winds. I gave it everything and came away with a 30:03, a PB, breaking the 30:07 I set in August 2005 - woot

I had no bike computer this week, if I had maybe I'd have put on a spurt to break 30 minutes - that will have to wait until next week

Nice one.

I also bought a new bike a couple of weeks ago. It is nothing special - but it has thinner tyres than my mountain bike so that it is easier for road use. Just transportation - no racing or time trials. I still use my mountain bike for off-road / muddy stuff.

Cool Derek. What did you get? The number of bikes required is always the number of bikes you have plus one

I have 4 at the moment - "You can't ride them all at once dear"

Nice start to the season, Steve.

I set a new 2km PB last night for my rowing, which I'm chuffed about. Been training since September for that.

I intended to but a Trek, but unfortunately Halfords were having a good offer on a Carrera with 50 pounds of accessories thrown in. It is not as good as a Trek, but good enough.

As usual, the Halfords "we'll build it professionally for you" service was lamentable; wrongly adjusted brakes and gears, steering column not bolted together fully, tyres under-inflated. Not much else that they could have got wrong really, but to be expected.

Yes my "bike2work" bike came through Halfords but I collected it in the box and put it together myself, politely declining their offers to "set it up".

My first modern racer since my born again biking started was a Carrera and it was a fine bike for sure.

Ooh still got a pic...

Cricked my next last night and tonight was a rainout anyway

Have only just beaten off a cold and I didn't want it back!

Haven't done any cycling (except my short commute) since the 22nd April time trial but it was good conditions tonight.

Wondered how close I could get to the other week's PB and had the computer on this time.

A mad dash at the end left me with a 29:58 Hurrah, only taken me nearly 3 years to get below the 30:00 mark!

It's still early in the season but I must be in reasonable shape One more week before my hols - then it might go downhill from there

Not a night for PBs. Sunny but a vicious headwind on the main drag of the circuit. Slowed me down to 15mph at times.

Folk said the course was 45-60 seconds slower this week but I was just 32s slower this week with a 30:30. Pretty happy in the circumstances.

I beat a guy by over a minute this week when we set identical times last week. Just shows the benefit of the "flywheel" effect of a fixed gear into the wind against a conventional geared bike.

The toughest part of the season for me now - trying not to get totally out of shape as I miss the next 3 Tuesday night time trials as I'll be on hols in Greece - hard times

Chips are most certainly off the menu, but maybe the odd beer