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Pedal Problems
When my right pedal broke, I thought it would be a straightforward matter to replace it. Wrong! For some reason my right pedal, unlike the left, (yes I know, odd pedals) was a different size to the usual and too … Continue reading
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Tagged alsager, Archimedes, cycling, LBS, lever, pedal, spanner, supreme cycles
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Going Up
My brother is a hairy man But I am a smooth man Jacob, Esau, Monty Python. Where does all this come from? Peering backwards in time into my psyche I think I was pondering the fact that Cheshire is a … Continue reading
College Blues
Cycling home recently I took a small diversion through the grounds of MMU’s Alsager College, which used to be a busy campus specialising in teacher training and sports science. Now all the college’s activities have shifted to Crewe and the site … Continue reading
Take That Copenhagen
Bringing you the first instalment of Alsager Cycling Chic Chick Cheek Sheik - I can’t call this what I want to call it because that’s genuinely the most cringeworthy thing i’ve heard in my life. Now that one daughter has … Continue reading
To Festival Park
This was definitely one of those occasions where the journey is more important than the destination. For those readers not local to this part of the world, Festival Park is a large Retail Park with Entertainment Venues where you could, … Continue reading
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Tagged alsager, canal, cycling, festival park, hopkins, Stoke-on-Trent, towpath, wilderness
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Free at Last
Free at Last, Free at Last Praise God Almighty We’re free at last. Well the end of term has finally come, and it made me think of these famous words. You can see them spoken with great passion here. Now … Continue reading
Mending Wall
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it And spills the upper boulders in the sun, And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. Seeing a broken wall made me think of Robert Frost’s … Continue reading
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Tagged alsager, churchyard, cycling, mending wall, robert frost, romping donkey, tapley, W.B. Yeats
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Alsager wins coveted OPEC Prize
Innovation in urban street design usually happens in the metropolis, but sleepy Alsager in Cheshire has scooped the Opec-sponsored Drive Award for promotion of vehicular transport. The winning entry was an unassuming barrier across a pathway between two housing estates. … Continue reading
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Tagged alsager, award, cheshire east, cycling, opec, vehicular transport
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Knowing One’s Place
Users of the Salt Line in Alsager may have noticed a recent new addition, the Solar System Trail which shows, to scale, the sun and the planets. Starting at the Hassall Green end car park are the sun and Mercury. … Continue reading
My Nightmare Commute
My posts may have been a bit on the negative side lately, inducing a colleague to call me a grumpy old git. So today I determined to be resolutely positive on my ride home, and who could fail to enjoy … Continue reading
