All 12 entries tagged Cycling, The randomness of tomorrow, today!

January 20, 2006

Travelling

I would at this point mention that my bike has another pucture, but it's getting boring now so I won't…

Anyway, the other week (before my bike got the puncture) I got home – knackered as usual – and thought to myself, "I hate cycling to campus…" because it is a fair amount of effort. So I got on thinking of alternatives, the most obvious being walking; it wasn't long before I decided the 1/3 journey time definately made cycling the alternative to walking, not the other way round. Plus my feet always ache, and I really don't like walking…

So that was two ways down. There's no bus service to speak of between my house and campus, so next I thought: driving. This would work, apart from the fact I don't have a car. However, after being stuck in traffic a few times I'd no doubt end up thinking "I hate driving to campus…". The next logical step after that is not driving, but being driven. This, however, is still not perfect. First there's the fact that you really have to work to their schedule, and then there's the leeching…

It was about this point that I came to the conclusing that it's not that I dislike being at home (I don't – it's great) and it's not that I dislike being on campus (I don't – it's great), it's travelling between the two that I don't like. So the perfect form of transport would be some sort of teleportation device or a TARDIS. Unfortunately, due to several problems making frequent use of the word "fiction", this leaves my with either cycling or walking…

: 20 Jan 2006 12:49 | Tags: Being Driven Cycling Driving Puncture Randomness Traveling Walking | Comments (2) | Close comments | Report a problem

October 24, 2005

Close, but no banana

Apparently, on a gentle down–hill slope, I can cycle up to 20mph. At least that's what the digital speed sign on University Road said last night…

: 24 Oct 2005 13:54 | Tags: 20Mph Cycling Sign Speed Limit University Road | Comments (0) | Close comments | Report a problem

October 17, 2005

It's all very confusing…

Follow-up to Dammit from The randomness of tomorrow, today!

It seems to have inflated easily enough, so it doesn't appear to be a puncture. I'm sure it was fine when I left campus, though…

: 17 Oct 2005 10:09 | Tags: Broken Bike Cycling Flat Tyre Puncture Randomness Tyre | Comments (2) | Close comments | Report a problem

Dammit

Follow-up to Bicycle Puncture II: The Revenge! from The randomness of tomorrow, today!

I've got another blasted flat tyre…

: 17 Oct 2005 02:49 | Tags: Broken Bike Cycling Flat Tyre Puncture Randomness Tyre | Comments (0) | Close comments | Report a problem

September 28, 2005

Bicycle Puncture II: The Revenge!

When we were doing–up my bike the last time, we found tyres that were more resistant to punctures (toughened, or something) and inner tubes that were supposed to plug–up punctures using the slime they have inside.
On Monday night I got a puncture, and on Tuesday morning I had a flat tyre…
This was made more annoying by the fact I had my first lecture of the term at 9 o'clock the next morning. I think it was probably because it was a metal screw; large and not particularly supple, and apparently too much for the tyre.
So I walked in on Tuesday morning, and got a taxi home Tuesday evening (I'm lazy). This morning I decided to have a look at the tyre in the hour I'd set aside for walking to my lecture; it's a 45 minute walk or a 15 minute cycle. As it turns out, the slime seems to have worked; I managed to inflate the tyre long enough to get to campus. There's still a slow bubbling (because of the slime) through a small hole but I'm hoping that the air pressure and centripetal force will help to plug it up…

: 28 Sep 2005 13:04 | Tags: Broken Bike Cycling Inner-Tube Lazy Puncture Randomness Tyre | Comments (1) | Close comments | Report a problem