• Everything Else!

    Turning the Record Over

    Anyone who just dipped in here would think that my life is nothing but Multiple Sclerosis and cycling, with content on the latter reflecting that I am not as strong as I was. So, as 2024 idles in to 2025, it really is time change the emphasis, not just talk about it. Take the record, or LP, of life and turn it over. Enough about Side A, whats on Side B. Bread So, where this desire for a change come from. Well, last Monday, the weather was bad and my legs were not brilliant. No pain, just numb, stiff. MS doing it’s thing. I cycled indoors which is something for…

  • Cycling!,  Multiple Sclerosis

    Cycling: A Change of Adventure

    It is time to accept it. Those grand cycling adventures, in the form that I have been experiencing them for the past few years, are gone. Cycling is not over, though. No way. It is too important to me. I just need to change the adventure that I experience through it. A Short History Cycling is massive for me perhaps because my history of bikes and Multiple Sclerosis are strangely intertwined. I actually only started riding a racing bike in 2012 at the tender age of thirty-seven and it was a crash on one of the early rides that led, in a roundabout way, to diagnosis. It was already there…