Archive for July, 2011

TortoiseSVN Commit dialog OK grayed out

Recently I had an issue where the OK button was grayed out on the commit dialog. This was confusing. The command line client was working correctly and the repository was fine. It turned out that I had forgotten about the property tsvn:logminsize which was set to 10. This property defines the minimum comment size that […]

Quickball Car Cycle Carrier Review

I recently purchased the Paddy Hopkirk (Mont Blanc) Quickball cycle carrier after reading the reviews on Amazon and the BikeRadar.com review.  This carrier requires a towbar fitted to your car and the carrier clamps to the towball. I was a little unsure about how good this rack would be but I am very pleased.  Fitting […]

Simple Cycle Storage

I recently purchased this wall mounted cycle storage to create more floor space in the garage. Fitting was a simple case of drilling 3 holes and screwing the rack to the wall. It is advertised as being able to hold three bikes, however I think this is optimistic. I use it with two full size […]

Fibre Flare Review

I have been very impressed with the Fibre Flare Light. It is a highly visible light, viewable from all around as it is has a fibre optic core. The manufacturer claims it is visible from up to 300m. I had several positive comments about it on the recent Reigate Cyclosportive, and I am certainly happy […]

Reigate Sportive 3rd July

Last Sunday I entered my first cyclosportive event, the Reigate Sportive organised by Southern Sportive. A sportive is an organised cycling event designed to target your own goals. The Reigate event had three distances (full, mid and short), each with gold, silver and bronze time bands. I opted for the mid route (101km / 62Miles). […]