Moving blog

I started a new blog on wordpress - you can read my (seldom) cycling entries here: http://cyclingintown.wordpress.com/

I’m still trying to work out which is best of the two, I’ll be cross-posting for a while, to see if I can make up my mind…

Ride on!

sangano-pinerolo bike ride

Had a nice bike ride to Pinerolo, 20 km + return, large sections of cycle lane. I started off this morning at a leasurly pace, enjoying the early March sun warming up the air. I had a very thin-crust pizza in town, then made it back home, with a refreshing stop at Gelandro, the best ice-cream shop in the whole area. The ride was thoroughly enjoyable, had it not been for my rather sore bum I could have gone on another few hours.

I guess it's all a matter of saddle-training when you travel… admittedly the road was mainly flat, with no big hills to tackle, quite alright for my one-speed city bike. Anyway, I enjoyed my going so much that I want to do more of the same the coming weekends!

I saw a pretty large bicycle shop in Frossasco - I might go there to look for a decent TRAVEL bike sooner or later, when I finally get my head round to some serious bicycle travelling... something that always attracted me, but I never really got round to do.

no bike racks

In p. Castello there are NO bike racks. This town (Turin, Italy) is really appalling - it's very hard to find ANY bike racks near ANY public places, theatres, public buildings, museums, squares, restaurants, you do find SOME near schools and universities, but it's just a fraction of what's needed or what would stimulate the use of the bicycle - really sad for a town that 'prides' itself with being 'cycle friendly'. I'm afraid a cycle-hire scheme, although welcomed, is just NOT enough…

DISRESPECT -2

more idiots parking on the cycle lane without ANY consideration for the rightful users of the street. Let the plate be known so everybody can identify the moron!