Last weekend for Daughter’s birthday treat, we took her and her best friend to Edinburgh Zoo. We drove up on Saturday morning, spent the afternoon running from enclosure to enclosure, and stayed overnight at a nearby hotel.
Driving back down the A1 on Sunday morning, the fuel warning light for the car came on, so...
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It’s easy to fall into the moral elephant trap of imagining all of us (on bikes) are good, and all of them (driving cars / vans / SUVs / bussess / lorries / etc) are bad.
The thing is, we’re all just people, and all sit somewhere along the metaphorical continuum from the Devil himself...
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. . . but he was never the smartest of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. And thankfully, UK drivers stick to the speed limit, according to the Department for Transport’s A Safer Way: Consultation on Making Britain’s Roads the Safest in the World report:
Click through on the graph and download the entire report from...
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My first car was a white 1962 Morris Minor. Actually, that’s not strictly true - before that I drove my mum’s 1966 one, and her 1972 van, which we took to the Reading Festival one year. All had ‘A Series’ engines, and I could strip them down to the con-rods & rebuild them with...
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Sometimes life can be cruel. And it certainly was to this guy, pictured with his bike:
But what can we do? It’s too late to warn him, so all that remains is commiseration. That and merciless, cruel captioning of this photo.
Submit your entry below as a comment, and you could be in with a chance...
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This was the soundtrack of my ride today - Out Ta Get Me, from Appetite For Destruction.
(The bleeping out on this version of the song is really subtle - even if you’re not a G’NR fan, it’s worth watching for the awesome audio edit )
So, to my ride today - visiting a client...
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Yeth, Mathtur!
Fresh body parts, sourced by my assistant, Igor, from Recyke Y’Bike, in Byker. No Genius should ever be without an assistant like Igor to help procure stuff like this.
The only question is, should I re-spray it, or leave it in its original colours?
What do you think, Igor?
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So there’s this crack in the paint on Trixie The Fixie - near the base of the downtube, just about where it enters the bottom bracket’s lug. It’s been bugging me for a while, so a couple of days ago I took a small grinding tool to it to strip off the paint &...
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It’s taken me a week to get to write this post, as I was hoping to get CCTV footage of what happened. Unfortunately the response from my Freedom Of Information Request was that the camera overlooking the scene was not working. So you’ll have to take my word for this.
Last Saturday afternoon, we all...
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. . . I have a memory like a sieve. I meant to post this a couple of days ago, just before your Champagne treasure hunt on bikes to celebrate the opening of your concession on Oxford Street in That London.
Anyway . . .
A big, big “Wooo!” to the very nice people at Cyclodelic,...
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