A ride less ordinary

Adventure Biking & the art of Going Slow & Getting lost

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About Me

I’m a cyclist.  No surprises there.    When I was 10 I wrote that happiness was cycling down hill and feeling the wind in my hair. Shortly afterwards I failed my cycling proficiency test;  an inauspicious start to my life on two wheels.  Undeterred,…

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Back Story

In June 2015, I found myself at the end of a ‘rolling’ six-month contract (in the Oil industry) which had rolled its last. With no prospect of renewal and, more importantly, no desire to look for more work in the corporate world, I was…

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Maps!

It seems that even though I willingly gave up my geological career, I can’t give up making maps!  I have bumped into a few retired geo’s who suffer in the same way! My latest adventure is to study an MSc in Geographical Information Systems…

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Midges, Grace & Wild Camping

This is a story about one of my early adventures, in the days when cycling was a minority interest, when the internet and mobile phones weren’t even distant dreams, fuel was something you put in your car and GPS was when you had more…

Posted on May 24, 2018 by aridelessordinary

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All about the bike

‘It’s all about the bike’ ……. an often-quoted phrase in the cycling world, which I happen to think is an over simplification. This blog post, however, is unashamedly all about the bike because I have just bought a new one. It’s been a long time coming.

Posted on May 12, 2018 by aridelessordinary

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A Girls Own Adventure

My recent cycling trip to Sri Lanka was peppered with ‘firsts’. It was the first time I had planned an independent road-bike trip outside of Europe, it was also the first time that I hadn’t booked accommodation in advance, and the first time I…

Posted on February 21, 2018 by aridelessordinary

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