A group of green laners, rough stuffers and folk of a relaxed persuasion based in Manchester
We’ve been able to get out to the coast. I’ve been at the caravan for a week now and am very relieved to see that nothing has changed, it still rains like buggery, the wind has a mind of its own and the sea still keeps toing and froing twice a day. With an eye …
It’s Thursday May 6th 2021, I’m shivering whilst sheltering inside the porch entrance to a church that was first erected in the eleventh century. It’s now snowing, oh no wait... It’s hailing, hailstones the size of peas! I’m glad that someone built this church here all those centuries ago... hang on a minute, the suns …
A pre Covid pootle, grassupthemiddle style... https://youtu.be/5pNr8NTS4xU Video - Steve Makin Dashingly handsome bike models (video) - Kev House & Paul Rance Dashingly handsome bike model (still) - Graham Ashton
I've always loved bikes as long as I can remember. I grew up with the '90s Mountain bike craze. Rigid steel frames, cantilever brakes, shorts and a hoody. Riding the miles out of Hull to bomb around the tail end of the Yorkshire Wolds in the mud, then ride back. Perfect... After a while things …
In 1996 Goran Krupp rode his bike from his home in Stockholm, all the way to Everest and attempted a self-supported summit; unfortunately his quest was not entirely successful and he was forced to turn back a mere 300ft from the summit, testament to an iron discipline that I think made the whole enterprise even …
During the ‘unprecedented’ times of this past year not only did I rediscover a real passion for getting out on my bike and making the most of that lunch hour freedom whilst working from home, but also picking up the binoculars and scouring the trees, hedges, and waterways that I could ride out to for …
Being of the disposition to be constantly scouring over maps, mostly of my local area, in the constant hunt for new roads, lanes, tracks and bridleways to ride, inevitably one finds that the original boundaries one holds become more and more relaxed in relation to what can be defined as rideable. Having ridden pretty much …
Welcome to my second post for Grass Up the Middle! I’m not your traditional grass-up-the-middler: I only ride SWorks race bikes; every ride is training; and I only ride nicely paved roads—mud, cobbles, and off-road are all off limits! So why be an [honourary] member of Grass-Up-the-Middle? I luckily got to know Paul very well …
Continue reading Living the Life of Baz Luhrmann’s Sunscreen…
French Fender Day... Our way... On the wrong day! 🙂 Way up on the 'Dream List' for a number of our group (certainly for myself & Steve) would most definitely be a trip to Lyme, Connecticut in the good ol' USofA. If you are aware of the frame builder J P Weigle, you will probably …
An account of a recent multi-day ride from Glasgow to Manchester, using either the GBDURO or Second City Divide routes by a pair of ‘first-timers’… (310+ miles/18,000’ climbing over eight days) Entering the pandemic period it soon became clear that normal behaviours were going out of the window. Regular cycling activities that came and went …
Continue reading ‘GlasChester 2020’ – Glasgow to Manchester off road’ish…
