Comments on: Cutty Sark http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/cutty-sark/ From the edge of Zone 1 to the middle of nowhere... Sun, 19 May 2013 12:06:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: All Bluster « Town Mouse http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/cutty-sark/#comment-1233 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:36:29 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=243#comment-1233 [...] was a wild one. I’ve dealt with headwinds before, but this was more than that, a twisting blustery wind that lay in wait behind hedges and [...]

]]> By: disgruntled http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/cutty-sark/#comment-1173 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:15:59 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=243#comment-1173 Hmmm. but what goes down, must then get pedalled up, that’s the problem!

]]> By: midwifemuse http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/cutty-sark/#comment-1170 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:58:14 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=243#comment-1170 I have this image of something which would be at home in ‘Cider with Rosie’, much coasting down hills.

]]> By: disgruntled http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/cutty-sark/#comment-1168 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:55:36 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=243#comment-1168 No, but it looks brilliant.

The bird poo is more of an accidental addition, courtesy of our baby swallows. I’d be happy to jettison it altogether, if I could get it off.

]]> By: babymother http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/cutty-sark/#comment-1167 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:26:12 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=243#comment-1167 Couldn’t you store the birdpoo on the rear mudguard instead and make room for whatever you need on the handlebars? Are you familiar with the plot of this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/0099400529/ref=dp_image_text_0/275-2147445-2020037?ie=UTF8&n=266239&s=books

]]> By: disgruntled http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/cutty-sark/#comment-1163 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:27:58 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=243#comment-1163 John – the wind at least is fairly reliable – always there and usually in the same direction
Dom – possibly. The only time I ever used proper drop-handlebars I entirely predictably went straight over them the minute I put on my brakes. Never again..

]]> By: Dom http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/cutty-sark/#comment-1162 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:41:27 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=243#comment-1162 Can you not get those doohickies that fit on the end of your handlebars and let you get all low, like old school racers used to have?

]]> By: john http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/cutty-sark/#comment-1160 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:04:34 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=243#comment-1160 lets hope the wind does not change direction on you. The other day I saw a lady riding along with two of them sort of bike trailers with two children on them behind her, it looked a bit hairy.
regards John

]]> By: disgruntled http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/cutty-sark/#comment-1158 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:45:59 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=243#comment-1158 Ah yes. Plenty of double-ramped hills around this way

]]> By: GOM1 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/cutty-sark/#comment-1157 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:58:55 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=243#comment-1157 A lovely description.

FWIW, there is an article on the bi-directional opposing headwind, and other cycling phenomena here – http://www.bikereader.com/contributors/nelson/cyclomath.html

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