Stories from
the road
(and beyond!)
Commencing Commuting - cycling to work in a post-COVID world.
Suitably emboldened by our pandemic-induced embrace of doing all our local business by bike, and the last train having left 57 years ago, I told myself I would ride to my new office, conveniently overlooking the fact that my old commute, (which was less than half as far) got driven more often than I’d like to admit.
A day of two rides
…there it sits, provocatively on its stand, just waiting for a turn of the key and an immediate trip into town. It doesn’t need lights finding, or a change of footwear, never mind clothes, to ride it - and it will carry several children and a load, at the drop of a hat. Of all the bikes available to me, it’s the most useful, the most practical.
In the hall, sits a very different machine…