The Blog

This is the first post in the Tour de Lygon blog. A blog is a website that is made up of regular posts. This is a post. Posts are usually pretty short, and informal. A blog automatically archives posts according to their date of publication, and the front page of the blog always shows the most recent post first.

At the bottom of each post (when you're writing) you will see "Labels for this post". Labels are like keywords, and you can use as many as you like. For example "etiquette", "bike bling", "rides" and so on. These can help to find material, but can also be used to archive posts so they can be viewed by date and by label.

What to write about? Well, it is different to the email list which is only read by us. A blog is public (so don't write anything that you don't want others to read, or anything that will come back to bite you - and don't think that whoever you're writing about won't find out!). There are thousands of blokes like us who have taken up (or returned) to cycling in middle age, and will be interested in the same issues that we have. Bike shops, bikes and family, where to ride, handling bunches, injuries, cars, and so on. Share photos, let some personality show, be informal but also write thinking that someone else might find what you write of interest.