It’s been a long time since I posted a bike v car graph. Mostly because the bike hasn’t been properly challenging the car; but also because graphs of personal cycling mileage are fairly uninteresting. But today I’m feeling uninteresting, and so I present you with a few graphs of recent ‘progress’.
Adding the dashed lines fulfilled a geeky urge
In a nutshell, 2011 kicked me in the balls, 2012 was a notable recovery but 2013 hasn’t really made much of a difference. The bike is still about 4000 miles behind. However I’ve almost completed 5000 miles this year which feels like a good achievement.
2012 v 2013 – a more even contest
In other news I have been satisfying my pregnant wife’s nesting desires (and obviously my own DIY urges) by building new things for our home. In between working, and cycling to work, this week I built us a new bed.
Step 1 – transport pregnant wife around builders merchants to select bed-building materials
Step 2 – Enjoy the fine smell of freshly sawn timber
Forget ‘measure twice cut once’ … what about ‘measure once and drill until your elbow goes numb’?
A bucketful of dowels
Bed headboard ready for gluing
Headboard glued and strapped
Drilling a leg to house a side rail
After tidying up with a chisel
Checking the joint for fit
Headboard joint
Next corner joint
Frame ready for painting
Simple matt white paint finish
Dismantling our old DIY floating plank bed
Cutting down old planks
Re-*cycling* planks [tenuous link]
Enjoying a well-earned beer / rest
Satisfied customer
Brilliant.
Oh wow. You do know you can buy those things ready made though?
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You’re right though. I think the bed building was more interesting than the graph, but it was a close run thing as I love a good graph.
The materials probably cost as much as an Ikea bed frame! But I’m hoping it is better made so will last longer. Maybe I will bring back the graphs!
Very cool man.
The occasional graph is entirely interesting (GO BIKE!) though I do agree that overexposure to them isn’t as entertaining.
Fantastic job on the bed. Well worth the effort.
Very impressive mileage and bed building. Just a thought – shouldn’t you have made the bed bigger than the old one as it will soon be sleeping 3!
Graphs are excellent … and so is the bed!