Do The Right Thing

I was away for the back half of last week & over the weekend on a teaching job in Croatia.
I took my camera, and enough other assorted electronics to ensure that my hand luggage got to go three times through the X-ray machine, flying out on Wednesday from Newcastle to Zagreb via Heathrow Terminal 5. [...]

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This prompted by something I read on Twitter this morning.
There is one thing that makes me see red. I mean, gets me steaming mad to the extent that I’ll mutter slightly more than “Gosh Darn It!” under my breath, and end up having to whistle until I calm down.
Drivers using the phone.
It’s one of those [...]

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That David Hembrow’s got me thinking again. He lives just across the sea from me in what looks like Cycling Utopia. I don’t mean that in a sarcastic way either - from the saddle I sit on, the Netherlands, and specifically Assen, look like The Real Deal.
Anyway, he posted some photos and a video over [...]

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At that cycling conference I went to a couple of weeks ago (the one I keep going on about, as if I don’t get out much . . .), Philip Darnton, Chair of Cycle England laid down a challenge to everyone attending:
YOU have to recruit two non-cyclists, and get ‘em on their bikes by the [...]

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This via Cyclelicio.us - an Aardman Animation (the folks who kept winning the Oscar for Best Animation a few years back) of Angry Kid on his bike:

Kinda funny. Till you see it happening for real. It’s easy for riding assertively to spill over into the kind of “F*** you” aggressive riding caricatured in the film. [...]

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At the cycling conference in That London a couple of weeks ago, the nice people from Cyclodelic had a stand showing off fashionable yet practical things for wearing / carrying stuff while riding a bike.
I wanted to put a link to their site, but when I gooooogled it, lots of references came up & I [...]

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Wife’s away visiting a friend from university. So having walked Huge Dalmation, fed, bathed & put Daughter to bed, I’ve spent the evening Wwilfing. Amongst other things, I’ve found pictures from the Armistice Day services, The Great War (the war to end all wars), and a whole lot of bike stuff.
Which brings me to this.
It [...]

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You know how bad luck happens in threes? Well I’m waiting for the third.
A couple of weeks ago, I was congratulating myself on having gone at least a year without a puncture. The Gods were obviously listening, ‘cos soon after that I got a superb flat in my Sturdy Commuting Bike, Wilf’s, rear tyre. At [...]

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So I posted earlier about how these two guys have done over 100,000 bike miles, and how although this is a long way (a very long way), it’s actually quite conceivable to accumulate that sort of mileage through your regular life.
Well, here’s an example of what I mean, taken from last Saturday:

08:45 - meeting with [...]

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This video shows a reformed ex-bicycle thief in the Netherlands. We’ll call him Fritz, but that’s not his real name.
Anyway, the premise of the film is to show you just how easy it is to break into most cheep bike locks - in this case less

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