Do The Right Thing

No, we’re not talking about what’s coming up in this Friday’s Photo Caption Contest (though I do advise viewing on an empty stomach). No, this was actually what one of by clients said to me today about riding a bike to work in ordinary clothes - she’d passed me in her car some time last [...]

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No, not me, but one of my clients - Michael Mitten. He’s making the first part of the journey north today, and by the end of the week will be walking over the ice, dragging a sledge behind him.
Michael is aiming to raise £50,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support. This is a charity that improves the [...]

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On a bike you move at a more human scale of speed. Peak human speed on-foot is around 26mph, though if you can manage to hit that inside of 100m, the chances are you’re a world record holder.
But on a bike, you can easily amble along at 13mph, without even breaking a sweat, and having [...]

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No - not that early ’80s thing with Hazel O’Connor, but the type that gets left all over the road. Actually it’s generally not left all over the road, and if it is, passing cars soon sweep it aside / grind it down to a harmless dust.
No. I’m talking about the kind that gets left [...]

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(n.b. That’s a tongue in cheek title. We love Xtracycles.)
ANYWAY, having made that clear, take a look at this, which I found via the Bicycle Diaries:

Until the punchline, I thought it was going to be an advert from some lunatic “we’ve got a big enough army not to need to worry about any so-called impending [...]

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This week, I’ve been perusing pictures of partially-clad and naked cyclists - purely for research purposes, you understand.
There are so many of these images that would be just perfect for our Friday Caption Contest that I’ve had a tough time narrowing them down to just one. In fact, I’ve had to look through the album [...]

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(You’ll have to click through to read the text of today’s Yehuda moon strip)
Today on my ride into Newcastle, I had a passenger of a car lean out the window as he passed, shouting something or other (doppler - don’t you love it?), and pointing at his shaven head. He may have been indicating that [...]

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There are actually some great facilities for cycling around here. They connect up useful places that people would want to travel to or from. They have great smooth surfaces, and they’re wide enough for two-way traffic.
Almost universally though, they have the stop-start problem:

These two examples are from National Cycle Route 72 as it crosses Welbeck [...]

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So for my Important Presentation this morning, I had to go in looking like I meant business - suit, tie, shiny shoes. You know the drill. It was also kinda important to ride there, as I knew this was the sort of thing that would go down well with the audience. This wasn’t a problem [...]

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What we wear reflects more of our self image and sense of where we belong in the world than most of us would like to admit. Whether your personal style is conformist . . .

. . . or a little less restrained . . .

. . . how you wear what you wear speaks volumes [...]

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