Posted on March 16th, 2010 by Karl On Sea
Pedestrian refuges / traffic islands - put there for your safety. On the one hand, they mean that pedestrians can cross roads one lane at a time. And drivers, get a greater perception of their speed, which hopefully means that they slow down.
The trouble is, that there isn’t always room for a car AND a [...]
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Posted on March 15th, 2010 by Karl On Sea
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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Posted on March 9th, 2010 by Karl On Sea
A friend of mine runs a company specialising in building web sites for on-line training. A while ago, they were asked to build a site that was something to do with cognitive behavioural therapy (a form of psychotherapy) , and the customer was absolutely insistent on having the acronym, CBT, in the domain name for [...]
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Posted on March 8th, 2010 by Karl On Sea
We normally do our caption contest on Fridays, but today is the 8th March - International Woman’s Day.
The bicycle is indeed a true freedom machine. It enables us to go places that are just too far to walk, without the need to be in a silly metal box for transportation. If you were a woman [...]
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Posted on March 7th, 2010 by Karl On Sea
This is my last active week in my Base 2 training period - next week (oh joy!) is recovery week, where I shall be lounging around, drinking piña coladas and notching up a mere 6.5 hours of training.
To celebrate, I opted to do a brick session - bike followed immediately by a run.
The bike ride [...]
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Posted on March 6th, 2010 by Karl On Sea
What is it with British cycle infrastructure? Or are those three words together just an oxymoron?
What bugs the hell out of me is the shoddy, start-stop nature of it. If roads for tax paying motorists were like this, they’d end in random location, forcing drivers to push their cars across fields / other hazards before [...]
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Posted on March 3rd, 2010 by Karl On Sea
Spring is just around the corner - I managed to ride both to and from work in daylight. In fact, I probably didn’t need my lights on for either journey. But then again, I was riding through Blyth - a town where it is apparently compulsory for all van drivers to have a phone clamped [...]
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Posted on March 2nd, 2010 by Karl On Sea
Bikeportland.org yesterday featured a map showing their local accident blackspots for cyclists:
What you’ll notice from this is that accidents seem to happen more on busier streets, and most frequently at junctions. (In other news, the sky is apparently blue, grass green, and dogs found to bark).
You can see this even more clearly on this [...]
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Posted on February 27th, 2010 by Karl On Sea
Running last night in the universally crappy weather, I was listening to my iPod (also keeps the cold out of my ears - I don’t like ear ache!). It was the usual selection of songs for training, and just perfect to help me visualise the Ironman race. For big, long races like this, having a [...]
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Posted on February 26th, 2010 by Karl On Sea
This week’s caption contest features some Australian law-breaking - a guy using a bike without a helmet (Gasp!):
See what you can make of this photo - it’s just begging to have a caption added. You can enter our competion by leaving a comment below.
This week though, everyone’s a winner . Yes that’s right!
Whether you [...]
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