August is dead quiet for my 9-5 job so I took Tuesday-Friday off this week (the week before August Bank Holiday 2025). I decided to ride some of the Cantii Way in Kent, which is a cheapish 90 minute train ticket away from London, and also had a Panasonic Lumix GF1 camera, which I hope will mark an improvement in the output on this blog. I should also add this is the first blog post following a trip done on my new bike, which is a titanium frame with bits and gubbins from the Merlin swapped on to it. This is a short article outlining what I learned and observed.
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Learnings and feelings after 6 months of cycle educating in London
The other day at London Bike Kitchen, where I teach as a freelance tutor, I ran a ‘introduction to maintenance’ class for two people who were several decades older than me. Correspondingly, they probably had in the order of 40 years more of experience regarding riding bikes than I did, since I only really began cycling properly (in the sense of leisure and transportation) in around 2017. Writing this, I’ve been teaching classes like this, or working as a community mechanic, for about 6 months now, and thought a blog post about what I’ve learned and how I’m feeling about it may be interesting to you.
Calum On Wheels 