Do The Right Thing

Over the summer, I got seriously into pancakes. I’d cook ‘em for breakfast for Daughter & me two or three times a week, and go to work / out at the weekend with a definite full-belly-warm-glow about me.
Strangely enough, everyone seems to think that pancakes are a real faff to cook in the morning [...]

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This via a comment by Scubamatt on today’s Yehuda Moon strip:

Man convicted in orange rabbit pedicab hit-and-run
Friday, October 30, 2009
By The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Mercedes driver testified he didn’t see the 6-foot-tall orange rabbit driving a pedicab because he was fumbling for a dropped cell phone.
Pedicab driver Kate Altermatt tells [...]

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If you were campaigning to improve the quality of local cycle infrastructure, is this the sort of thing that you’d be demanding?

Make my journey a pleasant experience and not a daily struggle for space.
Give me and other cyclists priority over motor traffic.
Include sections free of motor traffic.
Stop buses, lorries and cars passing too close and [...]

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While I was walking through town today, I saw a guy ride up & park his bike outside a shop before popping inside. He was just nipping in to pick something up, so didn’t bother to lock it:

This is a mistake that people frequently make (just t

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If you don’t speak German, this’ll seem like hard work for a Friday afternoon - you’re going to have to read the subtitles. But there’s a point to all this, so stick with it to the end.

(via the excellent People Powered blog of Andy in Germany )

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I’m trawling through Youtube & Vimeo to try to find a clip showing what cycling was like in the UK in the 1950s for comparison with the vid of the same era from the Netherlands, as shown by David Hembrow & Amsterdamize .
Not much luck so far . . . but I did find this:

Makes [...]

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I may be in danger of becoming a bit of a cycling zealot. So to celebrate that rather than deny it, this week’s Caption Contest has a slightly religious theme, with a Creative Commons-licensed photo by sp!ros on Flickr :

So many opportunities here - the nun, the juxtaposition with McDonalds, that outrageously short [...]

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We took a walk around the retail end of Ashington today at lunch time to see how the businesses were doing, and what they were facing in terms of competition from the new Cylon Mothership Asda-Walmart store that opened this Monday. Passing through the bus station, I saw these:

What are these? Well, look at [...]

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Obviously there have been some refinements since these earlier models were demonstrated.

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Here’s a curious thing in British law - at road junctions, pedestrians have right of way over all other road users.

No, really - click on the picture to go to the Highway Code pages about this.
Anyway, over the last few months, I’ve started acting as if this were true. When cars are approaching from [...]

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