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What could be more Danish than this:
A bicycle made from Lego!
Lots more photos and pricing (hint: Ultegra Di2 costs a whole lot less) over at the artist, Sean Kenney’s site. He even does a cool little Lego Christiana Bike model, but that’s only in a more traditional Lego scale!
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The Times provides a more realistic analysis of the Institute of Advanced Motorists so-called research on this:
Just 2% of cyclists “frequently” jump red lights.
Meanwhile, there’s this from a couple of years ago - in 2009, 2.8% of all drivers in a study involving 14,000 vehicles were using a hand-held mobile phone.
Let’s be charitable and...
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I’ve been away for a while. No - not “away” like Marty McFly’s uncle Joey - I mean just busy. Flat out full-on deadline-passing late and trying to catch up busy.
Anyway, today I was riding in the rain through the excellent cycle facility that is Newcastle’s Percy Street, when I heard the loudest, strangest...
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Here are two bicycle quotes attributed to Albert Einstein:
“I thought of that while riding my bicycle”
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving“
Meanwhile, this graph from At War With...
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To the driver I’ve just watched “driving” down the road, gently swerving from one side to the other:
The trouble is, you were probably never taught to multi-task in this way. If only it had been part of your driving...
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This comes via one of our GCHQ-sponsored covertly observed-chaps on the twitters:
“This is a great enhancement to safety, as you don’t have to text with something that’s down in your console”
“You’re absolutely not distracted in any way from the...
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It’s Derek Griffiths from Play Away off of on the telly:
Or an alternative reading is that I’m just so glad that it’s not the ’70s any more, and we don’t have to wear shorts like that!
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Well done to everyone who entered last week’s contest. After planting evidence on our panel of judges, they’ve decided that the winner has to be Kim with,
“Is this the queue for the canteen?”
Though to be fair, Nathan’s suggestion that...
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What is it with London’s fixie-riding cyclists? I have three theories:
Riding a brakeless fixie in London traffic is an evolutionary cul de sac. Once you get in, extinction is the only way out.
Riding a brakeless fixie in London traffic...
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Well didn’t you all do well last week? Some great answers, but when it comes down to it, we love puns. So Nathan wins with,
“Idiot! You were supposed to ride up a steel hill…“
Your Jesus-approved bicycle will be with...
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I always wanted a Raleigh Chopper as a kid. That crazy frame geometry, the handlebars, the gear shifter sticking up right where it could do you a serious mischief, and the extra long saddle (obviously meant for you plus...
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How much do you think it costs to own and drive a car?
The answer is a whole lot more than you think - I made a spreadsheet to do the calculations & present them thus (click to enlarge):
That total...
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Jeremy Clarkson isn’t a fan of caravans.
Personally, I don’t really mind them, although sometimes their drivers don’t appreciate how wide they are, and tend to pass a bit too close.
But on this, I’m sure we can agree:
Recumbent cyclists
Towing a...
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I read with interest when people on the Twitters talk about “out of season”, or “non-biking” days.
Then I look at my calendar:
… which can be analysed thus:
… and I figure that I must be doing something wrong.
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When I came out of the supermarket today, I noticed something odd about how the bike next to mine was locked up:
Initially I thought that the bike wasn’t locked at all. Then I realised that the liquorice-stick cable lock was...
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This comes via TownMouse’s Twitters. Press the “full-screen” button in the bottom right when you play it - this is ten minutes of proper lump-in-the-throat cinema:
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This via cyclelicio.us:
You can read the full story and the excerpt from the police blog over on Cyclelicio.us, but to summarise:
A driver rear-ends a cyclist
He tries to leave the scene
A bus driver who’s seen the crash in his rear-view...
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Oh! Last week’s competition! Just so difficult to pick an absolute winner. But like in that film Highlander, there can be only one. It has to be John The Monkey, who took the only route guaranteed to win the...
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This via LBC:
In a previous City Hall Question Time, Boris revealed that overall, things are safer for cyclists - the KSI rate (the proportion of cyclists killed or seriously injured per journey, or per number of kilometres cycled) IS reducing.
Let’s be...
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Here’s a funny thing about the Internet - it’s a PR disaster waiting to happen.
It seems the driver featured in this video (filmed by one of the government’s special surveillance droids in the South) didn’t like people seeing how...
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The Tyne & Wear Metro doesn’t allow bikes. Apparently non-folding bikes are uniquely dangerous, although the Tyne & Wear Passenger Transport Authority can’t supply their risk assessments that led them to this conclusion. And despite years of lobbying, the...
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