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Issue 7 • 2015
£2.95
One Morning
In May:
peace beside
the A55
Get a
Grip On
Your
Rubber:
Tyres
Cycling,
COAST AND
Coffee,
CASTLES:
PEMBROKESHIRE
Community,
DAY OUT
Colchester :
ColVelo
Products & Tech • The Good Old Days • and much more
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Welcome to 7DC 7, May 2015
By the time this is published the General Election results will be known
and we may well have a new government in place. There has never
been a General Election campaign during which more effort was put
into making cycling a political issue. Political in the sense of whether it
was being addressed by candidates individually and parties in general.
The proof of the pudding will, as ever, be in the eating. In any case,
local cycling campaign groups are often the source of all that is best
in improving cycling infrastructure or “softer measures” such as
supporting new cyclists. More often than not, well-informed cyclists can
have a major impact on how money is spent, especially as a corrective
to the assumptions of car-bound engineers and in cases where the
needs of cyclists – and others with wheeled vehicles – are being ignored
or threatened.
So continue to write to your MP, to support social media campaigns
and to quiz your local councillor. It can be an informative and rewarding
experience – though neither is guaranteed.
Whatever the complexion of the new government, I expect most of
us will ride on much the same as we did before. There’s a stronger
guarantee of enjoyment, too.
May many sunny miles be yours,
Steve
We apologise for the late publication of this edition of Seven Day Cyclist
and for any disappointment or inconvenience this has caused.
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CONTRIBUTORS
Mark Jacobson
Paul Wagner
Marie Madigan
Tim Bird
Charlie Faringdon
PRODUCT TESTS AND
TECHNICAL
Michael Stenning
EDITOR
Stephen Dyster
DESIGN
Colin Halliday
CONTACTS
See details on
www.sevendaycyclist.co .uk
Contents
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May Day Ride
Tour Bar None Begun
Products
There’s More to Cycling
On The Fairmile
The Brompton Goes Wild
Rubber Fetish: Tyres
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Tested: Frog Bike
Chat With Col Velo
Going For Pembroke
The Good Old Days
Haste To The Wedding
Rear Rack
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ONE
MORNING
IN
MAY
AsIRodeOut
OneMorning
inMay
MARIE MADIGAN RODE OUT IN THE
MERRY MONTH – one year ago.
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ONE
MORNING
IN
MAY
Crossing the straits
R
iding beside a large dual
carriageway wouldn’t be my first
choice of bike ride, however, one
chilly May Day, I ended up cycling
beside the A55, the main trunk road
into north Wales. I was in one of those moods: a
free(ish) day, it’s not actually blowing a gale or
sheeting down with rain, so I could go out for a
ride, but I was feeling lazy. I’d not been on my
road bike for a few months and and didn’t want to
think. I needed a signed cycle route. ‘I’m going on
a plod to Conwy for an icecream,’ I told the man
of the house.‘Can you pick me up if I cry for help?’
Reassured by his response, and with additional
reassurances to myself that I could turn back if I got
too irritated, or it hadn’t become enjoyable, I set off
towards the Menai Bridge.
When you live on a headland every ride that you
do has to start off with the same few miles. You don’t
feel as if you’ve started until you get through them. It
wasn’t until I’d ridden eleven miles, when I departed
from my normal commuting/shopping expedition
route into Bangor and rode down past the university,
that something in my head clicked and I finally felt as
if I was out for a bike ride. Even better, I was out for a
plodding, exploring ride along roads I’d hardly ever
ridden. I felt like an explorer.
National Cycle Network Route 5 follows the
north Wales coast, eventually leading all the way
to Guildford. I had joined it on Thomas Telford’s
Menai Bridge, that lovely and much photographed
suspension bridge spanning one of the narrowest
parts of this notoriously treacherous strait, but I left it
to ride downhill behind the university towards the
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