The ford now has concrete ramps on both sides. The path has been tarmaced and the footbridge repaired. Its looks looking great but its still deep. It does not look as if your average saloon or hatchback will make it through with today’s water level. Cyclists on National Cycle Route 23 will be able to […]
Something is happening down at the ford
Work has started on the rebuilding of the local Global Positioning Slug trap. Four wheel drives with high floor pans have been getting through. White vans and hatchbacks tend to get stuck on the entry cliffs or float for a while before sinking, as my little brother will testify. Will there be a cycle lane […]
The Coop’s forecourt will be changing for the better
Well the plans that have been proposed will help cyclists and pedestrians. Take a look at Changes in West Street and Proposed changes to the front of the Coop Store. Both have the same picture and in the latter there is contact information for making suggestions. Hopefully they will install “Sheffield” bike stands and not […]
Auctions in a Day are back tomorrow 5 October 2013
Several sellers have submitted photos of their lots. Let’s hope they all turn up tomorrow. Lots for sale on Saturday 5 October 2013
The Dutch Army Bicycle Band
Every now and again someone includes an entertaining bit of video in their newsletter. The CTC did today.
Alresford Cycle Route 2 – Ovington, Itchen Stoke, Abbotstone
This is a short route of 7.5 miles but with a few steepish hills. There is a little spur into Ovington to The Bush Inn. You can go up the hill and look around the church. Travel back and across the Itchen up top the B3047 and turn left riding for 2-300 metres along this […]
Alresford Cycle Route 1 – Ropley, Four Marks & Medstead
A cycle ride around the hills to the North West of Alresford. There a few short steep stretches going anti-clockwise. If you go the other way its an almost single rise to Medstead. Very little traffic except Whitehill leaving Alresford from the South and crossing the A31 at Four Marks. There is a village shop […]
Why I enjoyed cycling in The Netherlands with my family
In the early/mid 90s I lived in Rotterdam in a suburb on the edge of the city called Hillegersberg for five years. If you went North East from our house it was 1 km to a large park called the Lage Bergse Bos and 6 km South West was the centre of Rotterdam. Our children […]
“Cycling” face down to win a record
Graeme Obree is hoping to achieve a new human-powered land speed record in what looks to me like the equivalent of human donor kebab. Check out the story on the BBC “Graeme Obree challenges speed record with radical bike“
Things you used to be able to buy in New Alresford
When I first arrived in Alresford in 2000, the year of The Eclipse and Y2K, you could buy a thing to keep your record player going called a stylus. The clock shop on West Street sold them in packs of100: loud, medium and soft. These were the steel stylii for wind up gramophones. I still […]