Tag: Bicycle

So it Begins – 2016.

So it begins: The New Year. The one called 2016.

Today, Sunday, was about winding down my Christmas Season holiday and winding up for work. Yes, tomorrow I return to an employer and do employee things.

I’ve had a good bit of leave. How do I know this? I have a tender spot on my thumb from pushing a button on a Wii U control. A side-effect from playing far too much Mario Kart 8 with my daughter! Yes, we’ve included a gaming console for those wintery Belgian inside days but with motion controls so that Speculoos can jump, punch and generally move and play like a five-year-old loves to!

I’ve made a few New Year’s resolutions which I’m hoping should be easy enough to achieve with a little attention to my actions and well-being.

  1. I plan to be more restful and less inwardly angry and resentful. I suppose it’s inner peace I’m after. More Dudeist I suppose.
  2. Blog more and write more. Let that filthy bugger – the arty side of me – out more. I may even allow it to wield some art supplies and see what happens!

(I let him use my video camera last year and this is what happened.)

  1. More roots and more family traditions entrenching here in Belgium, which I’m really looking forward to.

 

…but first some preparation for a regular day at work…

This morning I tweaked things that needed tweaking on my ride to work. Charged the batteries for the lights, pumped the tires and tightened the breaks on Mrs. Awesome and my bicycles.

It’s really quite easy unless you have something akin to a spaceship. I watched a YouTube video and followed the instructions.

Unfortunately the fellow in the tutorial didn’t warn me of the dangers to my perfectly groomed hair.

Bicycle Hair 02
After bicycle tweaking hair.

 

So here we go. Charging headlong straight into 2016 at the full speed of approximately 6,21371 miles per hour or 10 km per hour for our metric friends. Yes, I cycle rather slowly.

I’m not in any particular hurry.

Ciao for now.

Fietsen en Velo’s – Bicycles.

They’re everywhere! To be Belgian is to own a bicycle. Even if it’s not used too often, a bicycle is a must have to place in the basement, garage or the mud room.

Bicycles are used by many, many Belgians for a variety of reasons such as to get to work, to get to your public transport to get to work, to do work, for leisure, sport, to fetch the groceries, to take the kids, well you get the picture. Of course there are all kinds of bicycle styles, shapes and sizes as well as accessories to aid with all of these functions. One aid or accessory I have not yet found is bum cream for those first days in the saddle. No matter how soft and luxurious your little seat, you’re going to walk like a cowboy for the first few days if you haven’t regularly ridden a bicycle. I’m not ashamed to say it – my ass hurts! Continue reading Fietsen en Velo’s – Bicycles.