Do The Right Thing

So funny it hurts!
(via bikecommuters.com )

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Rick Smith, creator of Yehuda Moon & The Kickstand Cyclery is away for a month or so, re-charging his creative batteries. The trouble is, I’m missing my daily dose of bike shop comic strip - so much so, that I’ve had a go at a strip of my own (click to enlarge):

If you’ve read [...]

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Not sure if you’ve seen this postcard - I think it’s from Sustrans:

Anyway, this was confirmed last week with this video that I found on Imagine No Cars :

Eeek! Yes, that is a man, that is a beard, and those are moobs.
Mind you, it might not be cycling that shrinks underwear - it could [...]

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I found this via Gwadzilla - an ingenious way to prevent punctures:
Fill them with 2.5lbs of marijuana

Yep. I reckon that’d prevent a puncture from slowing you down too much. Though there’d be other problems - the extra weight would be OK on the flat, but on a hilly / twisty ride? And getting [...]

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Today’s Yehuda Moon strip just about sums up the commuting that’s just avound the corner:

. . . or if you’re cycling through Essex & Suffolk with us this July , it’s the kind of thing you see at about 4a.m.-ish …

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Look what Carlton gave me when I dropped by his house for some bicycle gear modelling work (he must be desperate!) on Wednesday:

Such a simple thing, but it makes me grin! There’s more of this sort of thing over at IPayRoadTax.com .

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There are some strange bikes out there . . .

I’m sure you can come up with a suitably ironic caption for this photo. And if you do, you could win our fabulous prize for this week:
A fuel duty-free flight to a warmer world.
This is a great prize brought to you by the Tax-Dodging Alliance [...]

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Another Monday, another session in the pool. As I’m still in the Prep Phase of my training, I was concentrating on technique again - 200m warm-up, 500m of various Total Immersion drills (both with the Fist Gloves on), and then 200m of full stroke. One of my clients, Gary from Tri Northumberland was also in [...]

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Remember when you were a kid, and you rode your bike for about 22 hours a day, every single day of the summer holidays? Did you ever give your bike a motor sound, by fixing a piece of cardboard to the frame with a clothes peg, so that the spokes would flick it as they [...]

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Over on IPayRoadTax.com , one of the comments raises an interesting philosophical point to justify why drivers of cars have a greater moral right to use the roads than people riding bikes:
"How much extra tax do you think you would have to pay if cars didn’t exist?"
This got me thinking, so I did some digging.
Per [...]

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