Archive for April, 2009

The hot spring news is that over in Copenhagen, they’ve just got their first bicycle police unit (I know - talk about ironic!) The photos of bicycle police posted on Copenhagenize.com got me wondering what bicycle police look like all over the world . . . so I did a trawl through Flickr’s Creative Commons...
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Siegfried’s fitted with a 5-speed Sturmey Archer hub, and a thumb trigger shifter like this: I’ve been riding Siegfried for about a month, and have always found that the gears are prone to step up - if you select first gear, it doesn’t take much of a nudge on the shifter for it to jump...
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. . . or not. Look, I just want to apologise for this in advance. I wanted to try and keep some sort of balance with the apparent female nudity of last week’s caption competition. But in the end, I feel I’ve just lowered the whole tone of the conversation. Yet somehow I just can’t stop...
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I met my business partner for a quick lunch today in Jarrow - a place with an interesting history: In 1936, mass unemployment and extreme poverty in the north-east of England drove 200 men to march in protest from Jarrow to London. Their MP, Ellen Wilkinson was with them as they came south to petition...
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Tall Friend’s Wife says that I’m competitive, and get the impression that she doesn’t mean it in a good way. I’ve always just shrugged it off as projection, but I also have the feeling somewhere at the back of head that she may have a point. Especially after this morning. I ended up racing another...
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