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A DIABETIC ON A BIKE RIDING TO PLACES

A diabetic with a bike and a tent take on a whole world of travels, mostly solo and unsupported.

Tag: Diabetes

Doing Things, The Wrong Way – The Bad diabetic!

26th September 201714th October 2017 AllanBlog

I’ve been rather torn on this one for a long while. Do I write something about it, don’t I. I don’t know. Part of me just wants to bury everything and the other just wants[…]

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A Little RLI2Paris Data

1st June 20171st June 2017 AllanBike

Been rattling through the stats from my Lan2Paris ride, some interesting. Changed the front derailleur a total of 199 times, and the rear 4666 times, resulting in 29% Di2 battery used (which includes all the[…]

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The Final Push!

23rd May 20171st June 2017 AllanBike

And so the final push, little sleep really due to the ferry but think I made a couple of hours. Finally on French soil and what a cycle path. It’s basically an old railway line,[…]

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Messy Day

21st May 20171st June 2017 AllanBike

A messy day today. The “original plan”, dreamed up last night, was to wake up super early and blast (yes that might be also a slight issue when riding the bicycle equivalent of a super[…]

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Odd Day.

20th May 20171st June 2017 AllanBike

All started well, was making pretty good time and even planning how much further I could push things and maybe eat a bit out of tomorrow’s ride. By the time I got through Rugby I[…]

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Hills, Horses, and Garmin Gremlins.

19th May 20171st June 2017 AllanBike

Early morning ride to make up for yesterday. In the Keswick Bikes green jersey this morning, not quite the sprinters jersey but hoping that it will help make up plenty of time! With the disastrous[…]

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RLI to Paris

Lancaster to Paris – Setting off on Thursday 18th May

15th May 2017 AllanBlog

  The Royal Lancaster Infirmary last month opened its new Diabetes Hub to aid in even better care and research. Setting off on Thursday 18th May Allan will be riding from the Diabetes Hub to[…]

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Lancet – The Most Advanced Bike in the World?!

7th May 201715th May 2017 AllanBike

I’ve been a little busy in the shed again, this is the end result (click to enlarge):

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Going Old School!

9th December 20159th January 2016 AllanBlog

It started out as I left my test strips at home so I didn’t have any on me, and frankly couldn’t be bothered riding home in monsoon type weather to get them. Anyhooo decided that why not[…]

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JDRF Discovery Day

JDRF Type 1 Discovery Day – Newcastle

21st November 20158th January 2016 AllanBlog

I received an invite off the JDRF to go to Newcastle to speak about riding a bike on my crazy rides and handling it being T1D at the Newcastle Type 1 Discovery Day. Being the[…]

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