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Available from my
Kagi store for just £6.49 (about $10):
I guess when you work in an industrial equipment store, there are just so many alternatives for the regular cork & synthetics / cloth / leather options. And seeing as the availability of these alternatives could be seen as one of the perks of the job (i.e. free , provided that the boss doesn’t...
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I remember in The Good Old Days, when you could see the strings and the tell-tale focusing errors of stop-motion animation. But not any more. Just take a look at this, which I found on Velorution this evening:
I really don’t know if this is CGI or not. I bet he’s a complete nightmare in...
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For some time now, I’ve hankered after building bikes from scratch. I mean, building the whole frame from lengths of steel tubing, and hand-cast lugs. Actually, not from lengths of steel tubing, but from iron ore that I smelted myself, and then converted to steel in a Bessemer converter in my shed, and then...
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One of the things about living on the East side of the country is that we’re in the rain shadow of the Pennines. Over the other side is the Lake District - lots of lakes made by lots of rain filling up the valleys. But over here, it hardly ever rains.
When it does, however,...
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… weekend, gay rights, the right to form a union, the abolition of slavery, everything was won by disobedience"
Sometimes I’m very, very boring and conventional. And I’m not entirely sure of the merits of a mass civil disobedience event at the COP15 UN Summit (will the protest achieve it’s aims, or result in a...
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It seems that there’s a gulf between floaty dresses of Copenhagen cycle chic and Lycra road cyborgs.
Not that I wear floaty dresses terribly often. And that picture isn’t particularly floaty in the skirt department, but I’m pretty sure that the rider considers it just everyday...
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Remember this classic photograph from Amsterdamize ?
It’s an example of the art of city cycling at its best. The thing is, with climate change and stuff like that, there’s the potential for this sort of scene to be dramatically altered in the not-too-distant future:
So for this week’s caption contest, all you have...
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. . other than a nice new bike, of course. Remember, you can never have too many bikes . . . but these can be a little obvious when wrapped up, and take up a whole bunch of room under the tree.
Unless you get a nice foldie-up Brompton of course:
There are all sorts...
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No, not the kind of French lesson that’s of questionable use . . .
No, I’m assuming that you’ve got yourself off the quayside and on the ferry to France (or for that matter Quebec) and that you now want to hire a bike.
But zut alors ! You don’t...
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This comes via BikeSnob New York City.
Anyway, it’s a great film full of snigger-worthy moments. And no, I’m not going to comment on the "always wear protection" line.
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