I started my new job on Monday but - predictably - the first two days were spent in London, so today was the first time for the mixed-mode commute Reading - Milton (near Didcot).
Getting there: nice and easy. Plenty of trains and plenty of room, a pleasant change from the Reading- London standing room only service. Coming back I rode all the way. I nearly didn't. By Goring I was so knackered, what with the hills and the wind and having spent most of the year working on-site, so hardly any riding, that I would have stopped if the next train hadn't been nearly half an hour away; but I'm glad I didn't wimp out because the journey back from Goring was great. Even the hill up to Crays Pond.
"Just zis Guy, you know?" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...
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Getting there: nice and easy. Plenty of trains and plenty of room, a pleasant change from the Reading- London standing room only service. Coming back I rode all the way.
Indeedy. A heavily loaded light blue Claud Butler to be precise.
Lawks!
I'd just got off of the train from Slough as part of my journey back to Somerset after a couple of days of work- related gubbins.
You walked past me (possibly said something like "Oh, great" when you saw how busy the train I'd just left was?). I thought I recognised you from your website but I immediately thought it couldn't have been because a) you have a bent & b) I thought you were still commuting across Reading - I didn't realise you've changed jobs.
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Stuff and, moreover, nonse. My Kingcycle took up less space than Mrs Larrington's mountain bike, both laterally and longitudinally.
Ah, but one did not replace the other, therefore the existence of the Kingcycle results in there being less free space in the world. I will gladly sacrifice some of my available space (there's plenty of it here in Australia) and relieve the UK of one space cramping Kingcycle if you like. I'll even pay the postage to help make the world a more evenly cycle distributed place:-)
Ah, but one did not replace the other, therefore the existence of the Kingcycle results in there being less free space in the world. I will gladly sacrifice some of my available space (there's plenty of it here in Australia) and relieve the UK of one space cramping Kingcycle if you like. I'll even pay the postage to help make the world a more evenly cycle distributed place:-)
Alas, I sold it a couple of years ago to help pay for Cosimo the Stealth Baron, who is longer but both lower and narrower and thus occupies about the same volume...
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Alas, I sold it a couple of years ago to help pay for Cosimo the Stealth Baron,
At least you did you bit for evening out cycle distribution. I get the impression your home would show up as some sort of magnetic anomaly with all that bike shaped metal.
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who is longer but both lower and narrower and thus occupies about the same volume...
Ahh, but it's mainly the length that counts (ooh er!), being lower doesn't mean it takes up less space unless you stack all your bikes on top of each other.
