Bike Culture

At the cycling conference in That London a couple of weeks ago, the nice people from Cyclodelic had a stand showing off fashionable yet practical things for wearing / carrying stuff while riding a bike. I wanted to put a link to their site, but when I gooooogled it, lots of references came up &...
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Wife’s away visiting a friend from university. So having walked Huge Dalmation, fed, bathed & put Daughter to bed, I’ve spent the evening Wwilfing. Amongst other things, I’ve found pictures from the Armistice Day services, The Great War (the war to end all wars), and a whole lot of bike stuff. Which brings me to...
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So I posted earlier about how these two guys have done over 100,000 bike miles, and how although this is a long way (a very long way), it’s actually quite conceivable to accumulate that sort of mileage through your regular life. Well, here’s an example of what I mean, taken from last Saturday: 08:45 - meeting...
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So there are a bunch of people doing amazing stuff today - Brad & Big Dave & a few others from sweat365.com are doing the Steelman Triathlon somewhere in and around Las Vegas. 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike, and then a full marathon. Any race with those kinds of distances is tough, but for...
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I had a meeting on Friday in York. That’s about 85 miles each way . . . even at my most mileage-obsessed, that’s too far to ride, so once again, I had to choose between the car or an alternative - in this case, public transport. This was an economic argument: My car’s good for...
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My momma always said, “Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” So how’s about this for a story via BikingBis on Twitter - Mark Brackett and Roger Ivester, two cyclists in North Caronlina have just notched up 100,000 miles each. Took one of them 17 years, and the...
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Yesterday was one of those days where it could be easy to drive rather than ride. I had to go to visit my client in Walker (just over 8 miles each way), and when I got up, there was a steady drizzle falling. Not the kind of weather where you look at it and...
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When I was in That London the other week, I took some photos of locked bikes around Angel tube station, for my other blog. Firstly, here’s a picture of one way to stop your bike being pinched. Have a bike that no-one would want to buy. Actually, it’s just the sort of bike I’d buy,...
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I’m working with an engineering firm in Walker at the moment. The thing with engineering firms is that people get excited about the strangest things - like the project I’ve been working on to restore my Pashley tandem. So with the weather forecast favourable yesterday, I took the opportunity to take the tandem for the...
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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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