'Treadly and Me' squeaked and rattled onto the blogosphere (as we called it back then) on 1 January 2006. And as I've done every January since then, in a blaze of self-indulgence, I'm going to summarise the year just gone.
Gadgets and Gear
From shed to bike shed
After all these years, we finally have a shed. Now to turn it into a bike shed...
Bike Shorts
Bike Shorts 29 December 2009
"When driving, we see the broad brush of the buildings and the other cars; we tend not to notice a lack of pedestrians, especially when they are rare. When we travel on a bicycle, however, a city devoid of life seems utterly bizarre, and the populace's blithe acceptance of this status quo even stranger." --David Alpert, Next American City
Bike Shorts
Bike Shorts 4 December 2009
"There is a deeply pleasing randomness about the campus cyclists, as though one morning university officials had assigned a bicycle to every member of the Stanford community, come as you are, without considering for a moment matters of fit - or fitness." --Verlyn Klinkenborg, The New York Times
Rant
Cheap shoes, bad shoes
When it comes to buying cheap cycling shoes, I should have trusted my gut instinct.