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Sweat365 is a fitness community, so it makes sense that you were probably given some fitness related presents this year.
Buying gifts for people who spend hours on their fitness is always on the face of it easy. The problem is though, you run the risk of getting given the ‘Little League’ version, when you’re...
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Can you believe it - I was ill over Christmas!
It was one of these 48-hours of feeling dreadful things, that’s now settled down to being ‘just’ a rotten cold. So I spent most of Christmas Day in bed, or staggering around like a zombie & generally being no fun at all to...
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This via Tom Vanderbilt’s ‘How We Drive’ blog (think of it as the blog of the book):
Coming soon - a mobile phone blocking key for your car. It’s paired to your phone, and when the key’s in the ignition, it blocks all incoming and outgoing calls & SMS text messages. Anyone calling you get’s...
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Wow! Check out Yanek’s latest effort - a fantastic resuscitation job on a bike from the ’60s. From this:
To this:
Fantastic! There are more photos on Yanek’s Bicyclog pages. See - to get a new bike, you don’t need a shed load of money, just a keen eye for a classic, and a whole lot...
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. . . because, then it’s really quite safe to do so. And I’m sure that you can hold your phone in a hand that’s resting on top of the steering wheel, so that you can keep an eye on the road ahead AND on the text message you’re composing or reading.
Or at least...
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So after yesterday’s post about how happy people on bikes are, here’s the flip side.
Sometimes - often, it seems - something happens when you’re out cycling that just presses all the wrong buttons. These things can range to the irritating and inconsiderate, to the downright scary and dangerous. If you ride...
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I don’t have time to write much tonight, but I’ve just got to post this - via Marc at Amsterdamize.com. It’s a slide from “a presentation given by Hans Voerknecht, International Director of Fietsberaad, the Dutch Bicycle Council. It is, by itself, a pretty awesome slide - a pretty clear ‘win’ for bikes on...
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Damn it was cold yesterday! The kind of cold where proper roughy-toughy Cyclists stuff a newspaper down the front of their jersey just to keep off the wind chill. Thank goodness for modern clothing materials, as I really don’t have the physique that would be made attractive by a reverse image transfer of the...
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I had a whole lot of baking to do yesterday - bread, bagels and Christmas cake. But unfortunately we were out of bread flour, and most of the ingredients needed for the cake.
The only option was to head off to the shop to stock up - I bake quite a lot of bread, and...
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After finding out about Daisy’s brakes in the rain, I wasn’t too keen at all on collecting Daughter from her stage class on the Tandem. So I thought I’d kill two birds with one stone, and run home with her. That way, we wouldn’t be driving (not that we can this weekend), AND she’d...
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