A new bridge and it's NOT for cars!

This weekend and next weekend a rare - and consequently exciting - event is taking place. A new bridge is being installed. But it's not for motorised vehicles. It isn't even connecting a road. It is a bridge connecting a bridleway by Kingston in Kent that was cut in two when the Canterbury bypass was built some twenty odd years ago. So it's a bridge for walkers and riders of horses and bikes.

It's quite a pretty bride too.

To install the bridge the Highways Agency will be shutting the A2 from 8pm on Saturday evening until 6am on Sunday morning this weekend and next.

There's more detailed information here - http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/projects/24211.aspx

If it's not going to be officially opened, I think we should all get together and do a grand ribbon cutting event ourselves! Do you think the Queen will come?

New Track Bike In The Snow

My new track bike arrived in the post last night. The box was open and the bike built within minutes, not that I was excited at all!

It's cheap and simple, as these things should be - steel frame, 700c wheels, brakes, chain, freewheel and fixed gear.

This morning we awoke to snow. Lots of snow. Was I really going to take my new bike out in the snow? Absolutely! It was brilliant slicing the skinny wheels through 4 inches of virgin snow. Eventually got it out on to clear, if a but slushy, roads and it rides really smoothly and it's nippy. Great new year treat!