Archive for December, 2009

This caught my eye last Sunday. It’s one of those photos that’ll probably have already done the rounds, so you’ve probably already seen it. But it seems pretty much on-the-nail for a Christmas Day caption contest, so see what you can make of it: This week’s prizes will be widely distributed . . ....
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I was lucky enough to get one of Carlton Reid’s Christmas E-cards today, and this little thingamajig caught my eye midway through the animation: Some sort of cool, carbon fibre modern version of a Penny Farthing? I had to get more information - I could almost see this coming in really handy (because after...
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There’s been some chatter recently about road signs. Apparently there are a whole new set of ‘em being rolled out across the US, as shown here on cyclelicio.us : In the UK, we’re seeing more of these ones, which allow bikes to contraflow the wrong way down one-way streets: Strangely, I’m not so...
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It’s a strange job that I do. Today I was at BBC Radio Newcastle for a bit of chat about triathlons. It’d been organised by Keith from Highlights PR , who does the business for our team of enterprise coaches . I would have cycled into the studio, but I had good reason not to: For...
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… or in other words, a snowball’s chance in hell. If we’d held out for a politically acceptable, affordable solution to problems in the past, we’d have probably decided that appeasement of the Third Reich was the way to win votes at home. Actually, it probably was the way to win votes at home, but...
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In general, I’m not such a fan of these. A bike with an electric motor? Really, you’ve got to be kidding me! That is SO missing the point. BUT . . . just sometimes, when the wind is in my face for the whole of the journey home . . . or I’ve left late...
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Flicking through my photos from Croatia, I came across this one of a bike parked up in Osijek: This bike was parked in the same location for several days, and I was left puzzling . . . Did the owner always park up int he same place, but having no saddle lock, take it with...
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It never ceases to amaze me the number of people I see riding around town on crazily shoddy mountain bike wannabe BSOs. Or probably even worse, the real deal - £2,000 worth of carbon, knobbly tyres and suspension travel to deal with roads that are for the most part smooth as Liv Tyler’s complexion....
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Yes indeed, driving is hazardous. In a week in which it’s been revealed that more drivers than ever are chatting away on the phone (almost as if they know their chances of getting away with it are virtually assured, because it’s plain that the police don’t give a damn), I’ve seen all sorts of...
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Remember the driver who managed to squeeze through an impossibly tight gap to get past me earlier in the week? The one to whom I should be grateful for not actually hitting me ? At the time, due to the feeble flash on my Blackberry, I couldn’t get a decent photo to record the details...
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