Assassination Attempts

So after yesterday’s post about how happy people on bikes are, here’s the flip side. Sometimes - often, it seems - something happens when you’re out cycling that just presses all the wrong buttons. These things can range to the irritating and inconsiderate, to the downright scary and dangerous. If you ride...
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Damn it was cold yesterday! The kind of cold where proper roughy-toughy Cyclists stuff a newspaper down the front of their jersey just to keep off the wind chill. Thank goodness for modern clothing materials, as I really don’t have the physique that would be made attractive by a reverse image transfer of the...
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After embarrassing myself this morning, I was in no mood for an involuntary dismount again this evening - there’s only so much humiliation a man can take. When I set out from Walker Riverside, it was already pretty damned cold. As I pulled out from my client’s car park there was a sparkly shimmer on...
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Winter. Bah! Actually, I quite like cycling in winter. I’ve now got a full set of waterproofs, so I don’t get wet (not that it actually rains very often during commuting time), and there’s just something about the feeling of glowing cheeks when the air’s cold. But not so today - TWO assassination attempts - both...
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This prompted by something I read on Twitter this morning. There is one thing that makes me see red. I mean, gets me steaming mad to the extent that I’ll mutter slightly more than “Gosh Darn It!” under my breath, and end up having to whistle until I calm down. Drivers using the phone. It’s one of...
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I’ve been BUSY these last couple of weeks. Really busy. Put it this way, work is starting to interfere with my fitness. And that just can’t be good! So I’ve had to grab it while I can . . . like on Saturday: In the morning, I had a meeting up at Starbucks / Borders at...
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So. Back to this thing about helmets. You might think that I’m either just writing about this for controversy’s sake, or a glutton for punishment. Actually it’s neither - I just want to understand the facts. Not that there was much in the way of punishment after the last post. There was only one comment...
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I guess I’m just one of those guys who likes to jump on a bandwagon. I’d probably make a great political leader - see which way my people are headed, and then rush after them so that I can lead ‘em. Anyway. This thing about bike helmets. Everyone else is posting about it (like here, here,...
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… with the word ‘motorist’ in this cartoon that caught my eye in one of the local free papers today (click to follow the link thru’ to the original & enlarge): It made me laugh, anyway! Sometimes it’s just too easy to ride with a chip on your shoulder (I know I’ve done it), acting...
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Y’know how the popular press characterise all cyclists as law-breaking anarchists, with no respect for the rules of the road, the highway code, or trivialities like red lights . . . . . . well the funny thing is that on a bike, you have a whole lot more time to look at the world...
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