Fat Bloke on a Bike: An Unlikely Adventure

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Part fish, Julia’s ability in water was already intimidatingly good and if she could be coached to cycle downhill at the same speed she cycles uphill, and we can keep her upright on the run, well, watch out Alistair and Jonny. For finer adjustment, you can have your fingers tight or loose – that’ll give an additional range of a quarter to a third of a finger width.

Both of these surveys I have done (for I am, as regular readers will know, a professional ecologist).I found the very thought of cycling up those hills after a days work to be too demoralising, so I gave up. If you have the bike and can swim decently – I’m afraid that while I represented my house at ‘big school’ in breast stroke as a kid, I now swim with all the grace and proficiency of a house brick – then you have a great chance of mounting a challenge to the great and good who you might not get near if it was solely down to a foot race. Nevertheless, plenty of other (better organised) people have written about the new toolkit and by all accounts, I think it is fair to say that the general consensus is a good one. and couldn't get on with it but I had thought for some time about a mountain bike no suspension frame would be more suited to me.

My second strategy had been to take it easy, to just cycle at a steady pace, taking in the scenery, and to not be dragged along in the mad panic. And at the risk of being labelled a fair-weather-biker, cycling in the wind and rain is no fun, and if anything, more of a disincentive than a useful means of getting race-fit.

Just about every cycleway or backstreet cuts across or eventually joins a busy street or main thoroughfare.