Tag: Cervical Neck Injury

• Back in Action – and Planning a new Ride

  Ah well squared. The great 6000-mile bike ride from Cirencester to Hanoi didn’t come off,  but there have been compensations. Since my last post, I was for quite a while in a bit of a grim state, recuperating at home from what a lovely young German neurologist – eventually consulted at the John Radcliffe Hospital […]

  mbrayne

  August 20, 2012

  Canals, Cycling, Health, Pedalus Interruptus 2012

  Canal Cruising, CCPE, Cervical Neck Injury, long-distance cycling, Molly May, Paddington Basin

• Dreams Postponed – the Bike Trip is Off

  Ah well. It was worth the planning and the effort. But in the event, I’m not going to do the Great-2012-Bike-Trip-Of-A-Lifetime to Moscow and Hanoi. So instead of images from the road to Moscow and then from Beijing to Hanoi, let me illustrate this blog entry first (left) with the lovely balloons from Meg and […]

  mbrayne

  April 24, 2012

  Canals, Cycling, Pedalus Interruptus 2012

  Canal Cruising, Cervical Neck Injury, Cycling, Kate Boats, Molly May, pinched nerve, Rory Peck Trust, trip of a lifetime

• Pedalus Interruptus

  Sadly, sadly, dear friends, followers and supporters,  the feared flare of neck and nerves happened in Holland, and I’m afraid to have to report that today Tuesday I am  back home in Cirencester, having been retrieved from the Harwich ferry this morning by my lovely Sue. As you can see from the pictures, I did […]

  mbrayne

  April 10, 2012

  Pedalus Interruptus 2012

  Cervical Neck Injury, Cycling, Guinness, necessary inoculations, pinched nerve

• Forecast of 45mph headwinds – why am I doing this?

  With departure set for the day after tomorrow, just 36 hours away, I was amused trawling old photos to find this first recorded evidence of my passion for spoked wheels. I guess I’m under a year on the left, and about three on the trike on right. The photos will have been taken in the summers […]

  mbrayne

  April 2, 2012

  Brayne Family, Climate Change, Cycling, Pedalus Interruptus 2012

  1950s, Cervical Neck Injury, climate change, Duckshole farm, Holt Norfolk

• One week left, Raven packed – and ready to star in The Standard

  So, Raven is readied, panniers, tent and bags test-mounted and photographs taken for an article on the pending adventure scheduled for next Thursday’s local Standard newspaper in the Cotswolds. Fame at last… Below right is how my study looked with everything piled up in one great heap before being packed. (Note that Myshkin, aka Wussum […]

  mbrayne

  March 28, 2012

  China, Choirs, Climate Change, Cycling, Pedalus Interruptus 2012

  bike trip, Cervical Neck Injury, Corvids, Guinness, Japanese encephalitis inoculation, Raven, Thorn Cycles, What to take on long bicycle trip

• Guinness is not always good for you…

  The last moments seen right of nervous good health back at the end of July… I’ve been waiting to post these thoughts for four months as my left arm and hand’s ulnar nerve has begun, at last, to heal from a very nasty uncharacteristically (honest) alcohol-related, zero miles-per-hour crash in Dublin at the end of […]

  mbrayne

  November 25, 2010

  Choirs, Cycling, Health, Miscellaneous Musings

  Cervical Neck Injury, Cervical Spondylosis, Cycling, mark brayne