When I was 18, the woman who’s now Wife gave me one of those leather thong bracelet things. I wore it ’till it started to fall apart, and for the last few years its remains were used as my...
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No - not this kind of dead frog, though it does look like an ideal isotonic, carbohydrate-based drink for after a long (or short) ride… No - I mean my Knog Frog Strobe. I was given a red one last...
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Just too funny - The Shit Cyclists Say, via peopleforbikes.org:
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Man it was cold this evening! I was forced (literally forced) to wear some extra, technical garments to keep warm: A “fleece” under my jacket. This is a bit like a jumper, but made of some sort of man-made fibre....
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Apparently, he was riding a bike and struck from behind by a pickup truck. It seems that he wasn’t wearing a helmet, and as one observer commented, “If Gene Hackman had been wearing a helmet he would be alive today…” Bicycle...
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There’s something beautiful about a tandem. The way the captain & stoker’s legs are in sync… Heck - even politicians have to agree & work together to keep things moving forward… There have been some improvements in tandem technology over...
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This blog post starts out quite sensibly, but persevere - there’s some silliness at the end… Some people are still obsessed with the weight of their bikes. I reckon it costs between 50p and £1 per gramme to lighten a...
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Remember my favourite cycle path on the route into Newcastle? How could one possibly improve on this? It needs more chutzpah, more pizzazz. In an ideal world, we’d get out our blue paint, and make it look like a Proper Piece...
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Yep - Electric cars are here to save us all. And to celebrate, we have a picture of one for you to caption. Apparently this driver, “…was involved in an accident at a nearby intersection. For some reason, the driver...
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I was at one of those breakfast networking meetings this morning, and got chatting to a woman who’s got some money to spend on the Bike To Work scheme. She lives about a five minute drive from work, and...
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You know that McCracken’s First Law applies: The strength of the headwind is directly proportional to how late you are. If you try to cheat, by grabbing a quicker, sleeker, lighter bike (reasoning that you’ll easily make up the time required...
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No - it’s not been stolen. This is just a little game for anyone around Tyneside. All you have to do is correctly identify these locations I visited yesterday. There’s a prize of course - you’ll get to feel...
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Nope. I’ve watched this twice now, and the only word that pops into my head is “crazy”: Hat Tip to @theconchdotcom on that Twitter for this one.
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That would be one explanation for this. Or maybe that this cycle path is constructed directly over a mine shaft. Or a ley-line?: Alternatively, maybe the contract for the path was awarded to the lowest bidder, who then decided that...
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This is Stanley - I met him in North Shields while riding home to Whitley Bay today: I had to stop him and talk to him because of the bike he was riding: Like other people around here, he scours the...
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Last time I wrote about this subject, a whole bunch of people got offended. Apparently, it’s not fair to make sweeping generalisations. So I won’t be mentioning that BMW drivers are top the the ranking for abusing and misusing their...
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This via Treadly and Me: There are probably ageing mountainbikers out there who’d call this a piece of “gnarly single-track”. Just watching the video scares the Bejasus out of me. I look at it and I start to feel light-headed...
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… is that they’re just the right width to drive a car up: Doubtless paying “road tax” also allows one to use any available asphalt surface, even if it probably hasn’t been designed to take the weight of a car. Because...
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