'A'-List Blogs

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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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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Here are the official unwritten* rules of weather forecasting if you’re going to be riding a bike: The official weather forecast is always wrong. It is always cycling weather. If you’re in any doubt about the Met Office’s nameless supercomputer ’s accuracy, you might be tempted to opt for more traditional methods - a bit of...
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One of those bizarre coincidence things again this morning. I was looking for a Christmas prezzie for (well, I’m not going to tell you who, in case they’re reading this. Let’s just say that they DO ride a bike) over on threadless.com where I found this: I was thinking of ordering and mulling it...
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Von Smallhaussen and I did the Dunwich Dynamo this year on a late-70s Pashley tandem that I’d rebuilt It was great fun (rose-tinted glasses now very much in place…), and we had an amazing time - especially as we were decked out as the most fairy-light covered tendem in the whole event The ride was pretty...
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What goes around comes around. It seems that when male drivers act like complete gimps, it’s not their fault - it’s a matter of poor breeding. According to Tom Vanderbilt’s reporting, it’s something to do with relative testosterone & estrogen levels that they experienced in the womb . Those with longer ring fingers than...
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I’m a man. So multi-tasking is something that doesn’t come easy to me (walking AND chewing gum? I don’t think so!) So this evening I’m trying to sort through my photos from Croatia last week at the same time as catching up on reading about a gazillion blog posts from my favourite reads. Yes, this...
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Actually this is Oxford Circus. Until now, it’s been a victim of the "keep the people away from the cars by fencing them in" logic that traffic planners love. You know the sort of thing - put fences between the people and the cars, so the drivers feel that it’s "safe" to drive faster than...
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This is something that’s definitely close to my heart - as someone who was on the slide towards middle-aged spread, but is now very much reformed, I’m a bit like the people you know who’ve given up smoking. There’s none so zealous in the anti-smoking brigade as the reformed smokers! Anyway, take a look at...
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Old bikes are good bikes. Not the fastest, quickest, best handling machines, but still good bikes. They feel like old friends, and like old friends, they’re just so much easier and comfortable to get along with. Take this one, that we saw in Cullercoats on Friday evening: When this beauty came past us, I just...
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