I Want To Ride My Bicycle

I bought a bicycle this past weekend. It's actually been on my mind for some time, so I took it as a sign that I needed a bike when Westminster Council kindly installed a bike rack on the street outside my flat. Their decision almost justifies my £30/month share of the council tax.

The cycle is a Carrera make, a hybrid type, in a matte-black finish. Only one of these attributes was relevant to my purchase, and it would be churlish to suggest otherwise. After all, there are few more important things than the bike looking cool, if it is to ridden and enjoyed.

On Sunday, when it was thirty degrees and sunny, I rode the bike from Bayswater to London Fields to meet some friends at the pool there. This is a distance of about 13 or 14 kilometres, which I'm very proud of. It's worth mentioning that London is pancake-flat, which is immensely helpful for cyclists.

Yet even cooler than zipping around London in the fresh air is how I can automatically record my movement with Nokia Sports Tracker. This is a neat application that came pre-installed with my recently-acquired N82. The application uses the phone's internal GPS receives to record my travel and infer other information like average speed etc. It can even automatically upload the data to the web to share. Check out my journey from London Fields to Shoreditch to see what I mean.