Bike Culture

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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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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I don’t have time to write much tonight, but I’ve just got to post this - via Marc at Amsterdamize.com. It’s a slide from “a presentation given by Hans Voerknecht, International Director of Fietsberaad, the Dutch Bicycle Council. It is, by itself, a pretty awesome slide - a pretty clear ‘win’ for bikes on...
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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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I had a whole lot of baking to do yesterday - bread, bagels and Christmas cake. But unfortunately we were out of bread flour, and most of the ingredients needed for the cake. The only option was to head off to the shop to stock up - I bake quite a lot of bread, and...
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Our car failed its annual MoT test. That means mandatory remedial work before it’s allowed on the road, we won’t get it back ’till Monday evening . . . and an unplanned bill of around £800. Bah! You could buy a great town bike for that sort of money. But on the bright side, it means...
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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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I fell off again this morning - that’s TWICE this week. A bit of a bash on the shin, and the remains of my self-respect, dignity and pride in tatters. Here’s what happened . . . It wasn’t too cold last night, but just as I was leaving home, the heavens opened for one of...
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I’ve got to admit that I’ve had my mind changed over the last few months about cycle paths. It’s been through a combination of “Look how good it is on a broad, flat surface without any cars” articles from David Hembrow, Marc at Amsterdamize, and Mikael at Copenhagenize / Copenhagen Cycle Chic. Its also been...
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