Fat Girl On A Bicycle

Fat Girl On A Bicycle

A light weight blog by a heavy weight cyclist

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  • Scissors and saddles

    They cut my vagina with scissors on my daughter’s birth day. 

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    August 18, 2022
    Stories
  • A better way of running away

    When we were 17, my friend was murdered. 

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    March 14, 2021
    Rants & Rambles
  • Long distance cycling, babies and time

    And in the blink of an eye, I have a seven month old baby. 

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    March 7, 2021
    Rants & Rambles
  • All City Roll Around

    Yesterday Pat and Nate from the All City Cycles HQ in Minneapolis and Brian and Dunk from ISON Distribution visited Keep Pedalling. With Shona and Rich busy in the shop, I took the visitors on a quick tour of some of Manchester finest “Victorian Shite” and cycling infrastructure.

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    September 18, 2019
    Stories
  • Shit Road Manifesto

    It can’t have escaped your attention that ‘gravel’ is a bit of a ‘thing’.

    There are gravel bikes, and gravel helmets, and gravel shorts, and gravel bars, and gravel seatposts, and gravel tyres, and gravel events, and guides on how to ride on gravel, and gravel wheels, and gravel shoes, and trips to Scotland to ride gravel bikes… and probably gravel chamois cream and gravel gels.

    Is it all marketing and hype to sell us more products?

    Yes.

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    November 9, 2018
    Rants & Rambles
    Shit Road
  • Dear cycling twitter, there are worse things than being fat

    Is there anything worse than being a shit driver? Or one of those bellends who moan about cyclists on Twitter?

    Yes apparently.

    Being fat.

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    September 8, 2018
    Rants & Rambles
    rant
  • A solstice microadventure in Anglesey

    or: On just getting out of the door

    Anyone who is on nodding terms with anxiety and self-doubt will know that getting out of the door is half the battle.

    It’s too easy to say to someone else, knowing they have the right equipment and time to hand, to “just go!” Can you ever really understand how concerns, amplified through the subjective lenses of worry and inertia, hold someone back? This time, however, the “just go” came at the right time, in the right form, from the right person, and I found myself on a train to Holyhead on Solstice morning.

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    July 19, 2018
    Stories
    angelsey, bivvying, cycletouring, microadventure, Pinnacle, Pinnacle Ramin, wild camping
  • Fat girl’s guide to the World Naked Bike Ride

    Last year, for the first time as an (almost completely) unclothed participant, I did the Manchester World Naked Bike Ride.

    And it was pretty marvellous.

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    May 29, 2018
    Guides
    wnbr
  • Why don’t you want my money? The dull reality of being a “plus sized” cyclist

    I think I’m a pretty accomplished cyclist. I’ve cycle toured solo across European countries and American states. I’ve raced time trials, hill climbs and cyclocross. I’ve won an alleycat. I’ve finished more audax than I can count. I’ve even been involved in a marketing campaign for a national cycle brand.

    I’ve done all this nonsense while fat.

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    October 22, 2017
    Guides
  • What (not) to do when dogs attack

    1 March 2017. I’m about 40 miles out of Las Cruces, New Mexico, feeling strong and happy, looking forward to lunch in the next town, when the dogs attack.First I hear them, then I see them. With relief I note the dogs are still in a farmyard about 100 yards ahead of me…

    Then I realise that the gate isn’t shut.

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    July 24, 2017
    Guides
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