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London to Brighton

My housemate, who has only recently taken up cycling, cycled from London to Brighton on Sunday. Can’t be having that! So, I set off on Wednesday afternoon, quite late in the day, from home, with the aim of hopefully getting to Brighton, or at least a long way out of London, by sunset.
I did [...]

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Hogmanay in Torridon

I had an unusual Hogmanay this year - up in Torridon with JOK. We stayed in Kinlochewe, by Loch Maree, and celebrated New Year itself at the Kinlochewe Hotel.
It turns out that quite a few JOKers are closet Munro-baggers. It was great to get out on the hills and climb some Munros, my first [...]

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Open Street Map: National Cycle Network Project

One project I’m contributing to is the Open Street Map. Gradually I’ve been adding detail around my local area - the East End of London. I’ve just bought a Garmin Forerunner 305 GPS receiver, to replace the one I lost a few weeks ago while out on a race. The Garmin will certainly be very [...]

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2000km

Passed the 2000km mark on my bike, according to my cycle computer. Having done the first 1000km in 77 days, my second 1000km took 99 days. I’m only cycling in three days a week now since starting university, and I haven’t done many long bike rides this summer, as it hasn’t really been much of [...]

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OSM Update

The rendering for my first mapping for Open Street Map project has now appeared on the online service:

Compare with what it was like before.
My next OSM contributions will be some alpine roads in northern Slovenia. I got some good GPS traces for many of the roads I travelled on during last week’s holiday. Here’s a [...]

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Open Street Map

I fixed my GPS yesterday, and finally got around to installing the mounting kit for my bike. As I’d missed my morning 5K time trial race, I thought I would finally get out on my bike and map the streets around where i live, for Open Street Map. This project is aiming to build a [...]

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x-England Part 8

Completed, finally, my coast-to-coast bike ride across England, in eight stages. Coincidently I finished the last leg exactly a year after I started the first. The final stretch was the uphill one, from Bath to Bedwyn. After wandering around Bath, visiting the Royal Crescent, Victoria Circus and Pulteney Bridge, I headed along the canal, crossing [...]

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x-England Part 7

Last summer I managed to bike most of the way across England, starting from Bedwyn (near the watershed - the highest point of my route) and finishing in Whitstable in Kent. This summer I needed to finish the trip, in two long legs or three short legs from the west coast, back to Bedwyn.
Looking [...]

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GPS

I’m on a bit of a gadget spending spree at the moment. After my Trek 3900 bike, I went out an bought a Nokia N73 smartphone and a bluetooth GPS device. On yesterday’s bike ride I was tracking my route, the GPS in my rucksack beaming its location to my mobile phone which was running [...]

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New Bike

Finally got myself a new bike - a Trek 3900 (2006 model.)

It’s streets ahead of my old thing, which fell apart and then got nicked anyway. It just hasn’t been the same, walking/getting the bus.

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