Do The Right Thing

… with the word ‘motorist’ in this cartoon that caught my eye in one of the local free papers today (click to follow the link thru’ to the original & enlarge):
It made me laugh, anyway!
Sometimes it’s just too easy to ride with a chip on your shoulder (I know I’ve done it), acting as [...]

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So yesterday I overslept. Again. I know why this time though - I’d set the meeting that I had to get to on my phone as starting at 4pm, rather than 9am, with a +3 hours alarm. Yeah, I know.
I’d intended to get up at six, finish off the stuff I’d been writing on Sunday [...]

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Well, from the competition last week, we didn’t have any 100% correct answers. Which in a way is nice to know, as it means no-one reading this blog is a total bike geek. The closest we got to that was Adrian Fitch, who scored two direct hits, and two very near misses. So Adrian scoops [...]

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This via Da Square Wheel Man at the Bicycle Diaries:
Stuart Kattell is cycling from Lands End to John O’Groats (that’s the whole length of the UK) to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support. Yeah, I know - loads of people cycle that route. I mean, c’mon, its only 800-odd miles, and he’s giving himself 3 [...]

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Y’know how the popular press characterise all cyclists as law-breaking anarchists, with no respect for the rules of the road, the highway code, or trivialities like red lights . . .
. . . well the funny thing is that on a bike, you have a whole lot more time to look at the world as [...]

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The Bristol Traffic blog has great tips for bike security today:

If you’re a bike shop, loosen the stems of all the bikes you have anywhere near the door - it makes them un-ridable, and less likely to have some scroat head off down the road on &

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Seems to me that there are two types of bikedom.
On the one hand, in countries and societies where the car / automobile is king, there’s the Adult Toy culture (no, Honey-Bunny, not THAT sort of adult toy). Lots of Lycra and carbon fibre and a fixation with gear ratios. They wear helmets and Camelbaks, and [...]

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Actually, not cards, but cars. And there were too many of them to count, so I contented myself with counting bikes.
Last Sunday afternoon the weather was fine, so I set up my Action Camera lookout out of our  bedroom window to watch the road that runs outside the house, along the sea front. I thought [...]

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You may have noticed that I’ve changed the header image for this blog. Alternatively, you might be a first time visitor here, and you’re just wondering where the exit sign is.
Whatever.
Anyway, here’s  your chance to prove that you’re super knowledgeable about all things two-wheeled. The five little sketches of bikes up there are actually meant [...]

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Yes, they’ve been at it again . . .well sort of.
I did a little noodling around on YouTube, and came up with two public information videos about locking your bike. The first is from the ’70s, and is worth watching if only for the Quentin Cr

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