Cycling musings and stories from a life on two wheels
Cycling and Old Age
Taken from the Blazing Saddles Column in the Tayside Courier Weekend Supplement 25.8.12 Scot Tares looks forward to retirement so he can get out on his bike more I feel that I am entitled to my share of light-heartedness and there is nothing wrong with enjoying one’s self simply, like a boy. ~ Leo Tolstoy……
A night-time MTB ride on Ben Vrackie
Taken from the Blazing Saddles Column in the Tayside Courier Weekend Supplement 18.8.12 Scot Tares forgets some lessons of his youth, but survives to laugh about it “Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street.“ – William Blake For many an ex-pupil of Harris Academy,……
Gadgets on bikes
Taken from the Blazing Saddles Column in the Tayside Courier Weekend Supplement 11.8.12 Turn off, tune out, change gear. Scot Tares advocates a simpler approach to cycling “I thought of that while riding my bicycle.” Albert Einstein (on the theory of relativity) Bicycles inspire greatness; I’m sure someone great has said that at some point in……
Bike Saddles
Taken from the Blazing Saddles Column in the Tayside Courier Weekend Supplement 4.8.12 Scot Tares tells why cycling need not be a “pain in the backside” “There may be a better land where bicycle saddles are made of rainbow, stuffed with cloud; in this world the simplest thing is to get used to something hard” ……
Cycling and Fashion
Taken from the Blazing Saddles Column in the Tayside Courier Weekend Supplement 28.7.12 Scot Tares finds some style over speed on his bike. “I was style-conscious, because how the bike looked and how you looked on the bike were very important. They probably weren’t, but it felt like they were.” Sir Paul Smith In a……
