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Yikes. That's on my route to Bloomsbury and I hate cycling down that hill. If he'd grabbed me while in motion I'd have ended up in his wheel arch.

Amazing scenes. There is some clown riding around Canonbury on a freewheel single speed with no brakes fitted at all. He appears to stop by turning his front wheel to one side and pressing his toe against the tyre. When I enquired as to whether he did in fact have no brakes, because I could not believe it, he looked all pleased with himself like a joyful spaniel.

The second worst thing is that he had enough grey hairs on his head to know better, or maybe that was a reflection of how incredibly stressful constantly riding on the verge of killing someone or yourself must be.

The first worst thing is that there was no hole drilled in the frame for a back brake and it didn't have a flip flop hub so someone has gone to some lengths to alter this bike's set up to Death Trap.

My mind. It boggles.

TL:DR Idiots abound.

I can't wait until next week when all the Watchfinder Generals put their barely-used 2015 Specialized S-Works Tarmacs back in their sheds until next year's TdF inspires them again.
Enough now.

Also in.

I'm still in. I've got a slightly too small for normal bottles cage so this will be a rare treat.

Amwell Street smells like someone has been extravagantly sick into a generous pile of horse shit this morning.

0/nostrils

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Nearly got t-boned in the face by a European green woodpecker on Walthamstow marshes.

At least 1,000/10

T-shirt.

10/10

Lovely sunny morning. Correct amount of clothes. Quiet through Stoke Newington. Nice chat with chap turning left at some lights. Chuckled to self at a fellow in a very pleasing Soreen jersey. It might have to be another 10/10.

I really love riding my bike.

I had too many clothes on. Had to take half of them off near the Emirates.

10/10 because this means it's Spring.

I lucked out on my volunteering role that day (having dogsbodied for ages) and ended up track centre in the results team for the Madison. I'm still can't get over how exciting it was. The noise was incredible, the lap, the spill, the points, the whole written in the stars thing - amazing!

Was so cold had to stop and put more clothes on. Super foggy. From the top of Springfield Park the whole of north east London had vanished. I love it when it's like that. Nearly as good as Wednesday's downpour.

9/10 (minus 1 for the arsehole in the transit on Kelross Road. It had 'Small' written on the front. Sing it, brother.)

Tube today because I am utterly knackered from endlessly carrying water around and around at the velodrome. Odd that the Piccadilly line commuters all had to MOT their Audis on the same day.

0/10

I think my pack is broken because I've played it a lot and I haven't won yet. Even a child who can't ride a bike beat me. Or maybe it's cursed. I dunno.

(It's awesome, btw)

First ride into town of the new year. The marshes (Walthamstow) were shrouded in an amazing low mist early doors. It was breathtaking. Pretty much every cyclist stopped to take pictures.

One simply cannot do that on the tube.

Smug/10

Arrived in the post this morning. Looks great. As does the subtly branded Loksak.

Kudos to all!

It's when MPs are told how they must vote by the leadership. It's enforced by the Whips - who are like prefects - hence whip. It's a three line whip because it's so important they do as they are told that in the written notice it's underlined three times.

Aw, seeing all the little kids on their parent's bikes waving and greeting each other as they were cycled to school was beautiful in the grey drizzle in Stokey. Then, while waiting at some lights, I had a nice chat with a dog sitting in the passenger seat of a van with the window down - it's owner translated for us. We bonded - it was beautiful too.

Ride home will probably be terrible, just to balance it all out.

Just toppled over after failing to clip out. Don't know what I was thinking. Dithered.

Thanks to nice cycling man for stopping to check I was OK, not laughing and promising not to tell anyone.

Banana split!

Haven't cycled for ten days. So today there was much nodding and chewing of stem. Also, there might have been some dribbling three quarters of the way up Spring Hill E5.

Also, rain or don't rain. Puddle tease.

Ugh/10

I went with the 48/19 recommended above and it's not caused me one single moment of 'I wish I hadn't done that'. Quite the contrary.

Seemed to be on the wrong side of a weird rolling road block this morning. Or every other road on my route is being dug up (including my own street). Horrendous time to switch to clipless pedals in any case.

3/10 (and two of those are for the baked banana rice cakes (from Feed Zone Portables) I made yesterday. Nightmare.

@Thuekr The Unbearable Shame. Good motivation to ride and get faster and further, you're right.

@edscoble Thank you. Sounds all right - I don't think I'd hold people up. Maybe not all the way to Cambridge at the moment though. Furtherest I've gone (fixed) is East Hertford, about 25 miles from my yard.