'A'-List Blogs

This via Tom Vanderbilt’s ‘How We Drive’ blog (think of it as the blog of the book): Coming soon - a mobile phone blocking key for your car. It’s paired to your phone, and when the key’s in the ignition, it blocks all incoming and outgoing calls & SMS text messages. Anyone calling you get’s...
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Wow! Check out Yanek’s latest effort - a fantastic resuscitation job on a bike from the ’60s. From this: To this: Fantastic! There are more photos on Yanek’s Bicyclog pages. See - to get a new bike, you don’t need a shed load of money, just a keen eye for a classic, and a whole lot...
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David Hembrow's talking about Critical Mass today - a subject that's been picked up by Andy Cline over at Carbon Trace. Neither of these two are big fans of Critical Mass, and I've got to agree. I've never seen a critical mass demo here, but what I have seen online doesn't fill me with a...
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I’ve been thinking a little about this over the last couple of weeks. Trying to reconcile my driving with my cycling, walking, and use of public transport, that is. So here’s my problem. My parents & sister live some 350 miles from here. Wife’s sister in Wales is 400 miles each way, and Wife’s parents...
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I never could ride a skateboard. First of all, during the first skateboarding explosion in the UK in the mid-70’s, my parents wouldn’t let me have one because they were “too dangerous”. They may have had a point though - I next tried skateboarding in 1990, landing cripplingly well on my left hip. Not...
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No, that’s not a misquote from some French royalty. It’s the motto of 617 Squadron, whose story was told by Paul Brickhill in The Dam Busters - one of my Thrilling Yarns that I read over the summer. It was Daughter’s first swimming lesson after the summer break. And although the weather forecast was for...
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This caught my eye on Liz Fedofsky’s blog this evening: …. And then the frozen peas were passed around. One thing I keep learning from other athletes is how much time the care of the body takes. Sometimes I think I’m the only one that spends half her day with a ball crammed into her...
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