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Hayling Cycle Ride is getting booked-up!

26 November 2013NewsAndy Henderson

Close to 100 people have joined next year's ride already! It's looking like it will be fully-booked this year.

Part of the reason is that the ride is returning to Paris. There are two routes:

Two-way riders will ride from Caen to Paris and back via Le Havre taking five days
One-way riders will get a coach to Paris where they will join the two-way riders for the final three days cycling

Trish Farnham, Martyn Roberts and I are already signed up. It would be great to see you there too.

There are more details on the Hayling Cycle Ride web site.

Andy Henderson

Articles on the Cycle Hayling web site

26 November 2013Bikes and accessoriesAndy Henderson

CycleHaylingLogo You may already know there are several CTC members on the committee of the Cycle Hayling campaign group. Cycle Hayling exists to promote cycling on Hayling Island and to help bring about changes to the cycling infrastructure.

You can read more about the Cycle Hayling projects here.

We've written some articles you might be interested in. In particular:

If you'd like to support Cycle Hayling's activities - you don't have to live on Hayling - then please register your support. In return, we'll send you an occasional newsletter keeping you up-to-date with what's happening.

Andy Henderson

Replacing bar tape

26 November 2013Bikes and accessoriesAndy Henderson

The bike I ride through the warmer months is a road/race bike with drop handlebars. You can see a picture of it on the right.

The bars came wrapped in white bar tape. That's a pretty daft idea because they get grubby really quickly. You can see they are pretty bad in the picture, but they got worse.

I'd not replaced bar tape before but, having read a few articles on the web, I decided I could do it myself. This article describes how I got on.

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