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Issue 3 • 2015
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Eighty pages
to pass a cold
night or two…
The
Trossachs
for Kids of All Ages
SAFE AND WARM AND
ON A HAPPY BIKE:
WINTER WONDERLAND
SPECIAL
A Roadster
on the
Western
Front
Products • L’Eroica Britannia – Heoric! & Much More!
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Happy New Year to you all
Seven Day Cyclist is now getting established and it is our resolution to
continue to develop the magazine’s content as we go.
As for cycling, my resolution is to try and do more this year than last.
That should do.
In the middle of winter we have aimed to provide some good reading.
There’s a special focus on riding in winter, with some hints and tips from
Michael Stenning. Much of this is, unfortunately of course, relevant all
year round. Other articles take in rides ridden. The editor is always on
the look-out for tours or day rides or commutes that will encourage,
inspire, warn or give everyone a bit of a laugh, quite likely all in one ride.
I am getting a bit grumpy about my commute to the day job. It isn’t the
cold or the rain or the distance. None of those really daunt me. It is the
muck. As an alternative to a busy dual-carriageway or a narrow rat run,
I use the canal towpath. Much has a good surface, but there are a few
patches that are pure mud. Their number slowly increases month by
month. The outcome is that on arrival my bike is dirty; by the time I am
home it is dirtier. A mixture of dry and wet mud with a packing of rotting
leaves. The chain is gritty, the wheels caked and the frame spattered.
We all have to clean our bikes. Everyday? Every commuting journey?
Roll on drier weather. Maybe I should just take the main drag.
So, the resolution for 2015 is to cycle more than I did last year; as for
cleaning the bike more frequently; I’m already doing that and I hope to
do it a good deal less!
May 2015 be your best cycling year ever or, at least, since your last one.
Steve
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CONTRIBUTORS
John Campbell
Charlie Faringdon
Mark Jacobson
Mark Shelton
Paul Wagner
PRODUCT TESTS AND
TECHNICAL
Michael Stenning
EDITOR
Stephen Dyster
DESIGNER
Colin Halliday
CONTACTS
See details on
www.sevendaycyclist.co .uk
Contents
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South Circular – Part 2
The Trossachs for kids of all ages
Flight of the Phoenix
Wheeling Down the Western
Front – Part 1
Winter Wonderland – Part 1
Peak Heroics
There’s More to Cycling
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Andrew Hutchings Interview
The Brompton Goes Wild
Products and Tested
Tour de Jour
Winter Wonderland – Part 2
The Good Old Days
Rear Rack
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South
Circular,
part two
SOUTH
CIRCUL
AR
Charlie Faringdon starts
his ride over Hindhead from
Haslemere on the second
part of his trip to the
south of London
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SOUTH
CIRCUL
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STORM IN A PUNCH BOWL
The old motor roads over Hindhead that were once
such a byword for delays have been landscaped
away – the A3 now roaring under the hill. Hindhead
and the famous Devil’s Punch Bowl were a place
to be feared in the days of highwaymen. William
Cobbett, the nineteenth century journalist and
political radical, who travelled this way – often
refused to pay his guide when he found himself
on the summit of Gibbet Hill, the highest point
on Hindhead, in a rainstorm, at night and having
instructed him to avoid the place.
When the road that climbs the hill gave out,
I walked and then rode over stony heathland,
scattered with patches of mire, up to the trig point
and Celtic cross that stand in the vicinity of the
old gibbet. The clouds were darkening and one
could imagine following the Old Portsmouth Road
– just a little way to the west – and glimpsing the
tarred bodies of criminals swinging in the whistling
wind. It would have given me the heebie-jeebies;
Cobbett didn’t like Hindhead because the land was
unproductive.
Looking into the Devi’s
Punch Bowl (courtesy
of the editor)
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