My Look 555 today received its first winter service for 2009 at 8,864 km / 5,508 mi. Winter services are scheduled every 500 km (311 mi), but this one was late by 364 km (227 mi) (my bad). The service consisted of: Degreasing the chain using a Park’s Tool CM-5 Cyclone Chain Scrubber and Australian […]
Archive | July, 2009
Bored? Need to spice up your life? How about a 1,200 km ride on your bike?
This year I started riding Audax rides, nothing too major yet, just small steps with my longest ride being 200 km up the hills and out to Toodyay and back, but with longer rides in mind/planned … 300 km, 400 km, 600 km and now the big one, 1,200 km (750 mi) over around 4 […]
Training whilst bicycle commuting
A fair bit of my weekly riding kilometres is taken up with commuting; the balance is normally a group ride or a Audax ride on the weekend, so there is little to no room for training rides to improve my riding. Hence the recent blog posting by Neil Pedoe of Cycling Plus in BikeRadar.com caught […]
Continental Contacts puncture and wear experience review
The purpose of this post is to summarise my wear, puncture rates and ride experience with these with Continental Contacts as fitted to my Surly Long Haul Trucker. The Surly Long Haul Trucker is used as both a commuter (city riding on a mix of road and dual use paths) and touring. It is ridden […]
Geraldton to Perth by bicycle – July 2009
This posting documents, warts and all, my ride on my Surly Long Haul Trucker whilst pulling my BOB Ibex trailer from Geraldton to Perth via the Brand Highway, Indian Ocean Drive and then Two Rocks, Yanchep and the coast back to Churchlands in Perth, Western Australia. This ride was undertaken in July 2009 and was my first […]