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It has felt absurd every time I’ve said it, The Tour de France is coming through my village.
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Interval Training
You can tell it’s coming. A friend’s restaurant has been booked for July since the middle of last year. The sodden fields round here have begun to sprout camp site signs. There are suddenly lots of invites to like Facebook pages about art and bikes, and the 100 day Yorkshire Festival has…
Chain Reactions … Steve
Yesterday I cycled into Leeds to meet publisher Ian Daley. We had such a good time I left my bike overnight in the Evans Cycles operated Cyclepoint at the train station. You can see where it says that just to the left of the bike, Operated by Evans Cycles. Today…
Stage 2 Notes
Last night the barman said, We’re expecting a thousand cyclists through here tomorrow but I am not sure what it’s all about. Landscapes we moved through: Fields so vast they are no longer fields but the landscape itself. The only thing moving for flat open field miles is a caterpillar-tracked…
Stage 1 Notes
Landscapes we moved through: West Yorkshire canal, running behind things, a parallel canal life Urban Leeds – feeling weird on a bike/in bike gear Somewhere after Leeds the canal becomes an inland waterway Holland Familiar landmarks on an unfamiliar horizon, Emley Mast, Bridgewater House, Ilkley Moor Post-mining – grassy knolls…