Cycling musings and stories from a life on two wheels
Bikes and helmets
Taken from the Blazing Saddles Column in the Tayside Courier Weekend Supplement 16.6.12 Scot Tares gives the “heads up” on bicycle helmets “Let me first say that I didn’t start wearing a helmet regularly until AFTER I WOKE UP FROM THE COMA… Helmets can’t save you from every accident. Nothing can. But they can save……
Cycling and the Olympics
Taken from the Blazing Saddles Column in the Tayside Courier Weekend Supplement 9.6.12 Scot Tares gets all fired up as the Olympic Torch comes to Courier country “There is something in the Olympics, indefinable, springing from the soul that must be preserved.” – Chris Brasher I am starting to get very excited about the Olympics;……
Cycling through the Summer
Taken from the Blazing Saddles Column in the Tayside Courier Weekend Supplement 2.6.12 A summer of cycling brings a smile to the face of Scot Tares. “When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a……
Perfecting your pedal technique
Taken from the Blazing Saddles Column in the Tayside Courier Weekend Supplement 26,5.12 Scot Tares finds there is more to riding a bike than just pedalling “You want to ride like silk gliding on soft air. Think slow and smooth and one day you’ll discover you’re riding so easy you’ll laugh out loud at the……
Grass track racing at the Highland Games
Taken from the Blazing Saddles Column in the Tayside Courier Weekend Supplement 19,5.12 Scot Tares bites off more than he can chew cycling at the Highland Games “Bike is a terrible thing that drives you to make excessive efforts, inhuman efforts. It takes a racing cyclist to understand what it means to hurt yourself on……
