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BalancingOnTwoWheels

Author: balancingontwowheels

Husband, Father, Christian and Cyclist. Blogging about cycling, walking and thinking.
A63 Trunk Road

Highways England to ban cyclists from trunk road

January 24, 2018 balancingontwowheels A63, Highways England, Pootle, Traffic Regulation Order, TRO

Highways England propose to prohibit cyclists from using the A63 Trunk Road and associated slip roads. An incidental impact of their[…]

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Diversion to snow

Winter tailwind

December 27, 2017 balancingontwowheels 200km, Audax, Brough, Durham, Durham Cathedral, Howden, Randonneur Round the Year, Sedgefield, Stockton-on-Tees, Tadcaster

I don’t know if I really wanted to ride my bike today; I feel anxious and tired before I even[…]

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Stonedale Moor

Winter adventure into the Wilderness

December 16, 2017 balancingontwowheels 100km, Bridge Inn, Darlington, Grinton, Keld, Muker, Pennine Way, Reeth, River Swale, River Tees, Sleightholme Moor Road, Stonesdale Moor, Swaledale, Tan Hill Inn, Teesdale, Touring, yacf

A few friends embarked on a winter adventure: cycling into the Pennines for an overnight stop at the World Famous[…]

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Howardian Hills

Howardian Hills Audax

November 27, 2017 balancingontwowheels 200km, Ampleforth, Audax, Brough, Carpenter's Arms, Coxwold, Felixkirk, Melbourne, Randonneur Round the Year, Topcliffe, VC167, Welton, York

Winter audaxing might be a soul destroying exercise in self-flagellation if it wasn’t for log fires, real ale and heart[…]

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My time in hand

#LEL2017: Self indulgent data

October 23, 2017 balancingontwowheels 1400km, Audax, LEL, VC167

During London-Edinburgh-London 2017, we were encouraged to check in and out of each control so that the event organisers could[…]

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York Vale

Randonneuring Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

October 12, 2017 balancingontwowheels 200km, Audax, Brigg, Gunness Bridge, Howden, Humber, Humber Bridge, Humber Bridge 200, Keadby Bridge, River Ancholme, River Ouse, River Trent, South Ferriby, Thixendale, Welton

Audaxing is the sort of holiday that involves visiting petrol stations and eating Ginsters sandwiches. It doesn’t have to be,[…]

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Cycle shadow

6 years of Audax

October 1, 2017 balancingontwowheels Pootle

Just for the record… six years of audaxing results… (First audax was an overnight DIY 300 to Glasgow from Stokesley,[…]

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