https://phelim.blogger.de/ A blog about being out and about on a bike and more..... Blogger.de phelim 2007-03-25T01:00:27Z en hourly 1 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z https://phelim.blogger.de/stories/729845/ ....over a year ago I read about cycling with a fixed gear or a fixed hub ("starre Nabe" in German) at first though Sheldon “the guru” Brown and then other accounts of fixed cycling and was so intrigued I desperately wanted to try it out. I remembered vaguely that as a child I had tried to cycle a very small fixed bike and not liking it all. A very old sturmey Archer flip-flop hub came up on ebay and I thought flip-flop would be good in case I couldn’t get into cycling fixed and... Blogger.de phelim Copyright © 2007 phelim 2007-03-17T00:55:09Z https://phelim.blogger.de/stories/737952/ When I was sixteen my mother bought me a Raleigh Memphis Mountainbike. Up until then I had been cycling a bike that had originally belonged to her, a "Marlborough Woodstock". It was a beautiful looking holland style ladies bike, handled dreadfully, but had 28" Wheels and was relatively light. It had a sturmey archer 3-speed and green and white mudguards and rear carrier to suit the style of the whole bike. By the time I was finished with it there were no mudguards, no carrier and the whole bike was... Blogger.de phelim Copyright © 2007 phelim 2007-03-24T23:04:33Z https://phelim.blogger.de/stories/671794/ I've just come back from a three week holiday in Tasmania. Most of the time we stayed in wonderful Hobart. It's the most hilly city I've ever seen which makes cycling there a real challenge. The more time I spent in Tasmania I realised I wouldn't enjoy cycling on the roads there. The roads are all pretty much the same grade whether it's a highway or a byway and you can cycle everywhere seemingly, even on dual-carriage ways :-o Tasmanians seem to drive fairly fast and carelessly judging by the horrific... Blogger.de phelim Copyright © 2007 phelim 2007-01-22T19:23:47Z https://phelim.blogger.de/stories/671547/ This is going to be about me and what I do how boring...it might include some references to cycling, life with children, geography and computers. I promise to do something about the layout Blogger.de phelim Copyright © 2007 phelim 2007-01-22T15:59:04Z Search this site: q https://phelim.blogger.de/search