Bike Culture

A very sensible and practical car that gets 9.0mpg, and can do 179mph: You could buy a whopping 82cm of widened M25 - for such a short stretch, you’d only need a little digger: You could do 1% of the work required to refurbish just one of the Trident programme’s two hundred W-76 thermonuclear warheads: The NHS...
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There are usually just two different kinds of century ride - Metric (100km ~62 miles) and Imperial (100 miles). I do a lot of baking at home (kneading bread dough is good for my anger issues), so I go through semi-industrial quantities of flour. I’ve also become known amongst Wife’s friends as the man to...
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I’ve been busy. It’s been summer (ish). You’ve been elsewhere. But now it’s back - our flippin’ fabulous fun Friday caption contest. So what do you make of this: Leave your answer below. The lucky winner will win one of these fabulous bikes to add to their stable. 1,999 runners up will also receive one of...
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Here’s how they want you to see the world: It’s not really like that though, is it? If you drive regularly, the chances are, this is more like what you experience: Let’s face it. Thanks to the power of advertising spend, your car (and mine too) is a form of mind control. It’s time to wake up.
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The other weekend I took my DIY cargo bike to the shops to do a major stock up. The advantage of the bike is that I can park it right by the shop’s entrance: You’ll notice that I’ve only locked it with a D-lock through the back wheel - it’s hard to find things to...
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There could be a reason for that: And if the wheels seem slightly less than round (really, really round), there could be a reason for that too: Hat-tip to Andy for these!
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I know I shouldn’t really. But it’s the captions that do it for me here: “Be careful, that’s a hell… “Oh “Oh “Sshhhh “Oh “Shhhit “Oh my… “Oh hell “Oh shit “Oh “You alright? “Did you film it?” “Yeah.”
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The Brooks B17 I have on one of my bikes has now done a few thousand miles, and when comparing with a new saddle on Algernond’s bike last weekend, I noticed that it was starting to spread a little. I also looked at yet another B17 on someone else’s bike, and noticed the lacing on...
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It was that time of year again - the time when I meet up with a couple of thousand of my closest friends at a pub in That London and head off to a café for breakfast, just 110 miles or so up the road. Yes that’s right: Last Saturday was the Dunwich Dynamo! In case...
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Several sports have their roots in acts of violence - boxing (OK, that’s still pretty violent), archery, javelin, and of course, motor racing. But how’s about this for a new cycling sport, demonstrated at last year’s Cycle Messenger World Championships: When a driver comes within inches of killing you, this can be pretty tempting. But it’s...
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