The Roquefort Files

In July, the temperature soared past ‘nice’ and went straight to OMGWTFBBQ. A blind mistakenly left open in the morning would have the south-facing apartment sweltering by the time I got back from work in the afternoon. I spent a lot of time wandering the flat shirtless, avoiding the landlord’s favoured dark leather furniture (so [...]

Well, technically the MS Society of Canada. I’m doing a sponsored bike ride* in a couple of weekends’ time and it would be great if you could sponsor me to the tune of a few dollars! * In case you think that sounds entirely too much like fun — a not unreasonable charge, given how [...]

To recap from last time, I had a pair of dimensionally-challenged handlebars which my brakes would not fit. It was time for radical measures. It was time to spent some money on a set of real bullhorns, given that my penny-pinching DIY approach had been found wanting in more or less all possible ways. This [...]

So, as I mentioned before, I now proudly rock an old school steel-framed Peugeot road bike, complete with skinny tyres and comically incapable brakes. And while it is now a sleek single-speed machine suitable for silent running and blissfully maintenance free cycling, ’twas not always thus. My plan, after buying it, had been simple: ‘chop [...]

Dom and Alice left Vancouver on Wednesday, off for a road trip into the wilds of British Columbia, and so I moved my remarkably paltry amount of gear from the hotel to the company apartment. It’s a big place — my rucksack lives in one bedroom; I live in the other — with a balcony [...]

Andy B, an old workmate of mine, is cycling from Land’s End to John o’ Groats to raise money for charity. Follow his words here, his pictures here and donate here!

As requested by Davis/d(e), witness the bike in its final post-rebuild state, as photographed during a blissful crack in the otherwise uniform cloud cover over George Square on Monday evening. Click away for a bigger version. During this rebuild I’ve gone a bit bike-geekish (quelle surprise! I hear you say), and while surfing for cycle [...]

It’s been a long time coming but I’m finally back in the saddle. The journey to work has been completely transformed from rat-race slog to open air ramble and I am almost pathetically grateful. I sleepwalk out of the flat and lug the bike down the stairs, and whether it’s misty, muggy or has that [...]

It has been, to be honest, a pretty mundane couple of weeks. I’ve been been inexorably pulled back to work in the office (rather than at home) by a day more each month, and now I’m back up to four days in, one day out. Coupled with this, I’m not convinced I can ride my [...]

Apologies for the lack of posts here of late. Life’s just been rolling along nicely without any particularly noteworthy incidents. Last week was shaping up to be a little more exciting: Ash and I were over in Edinburgh for drinks a couple of times, and on Thursday night I was looking forward to a brisk [...]