Bike Culture

The old Pashley tandem I bought a few weeks back is nearly finished. Finished enough to ride at any rate. Which is precisely what we did a couple of times over the weekend. Just after Daughter got back from school on Friday, I finally picked up the extra-long tandem gear cable I needed, and fitted...
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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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Well, from the competition last week, we didn’t have any 100% correct answers. Which in a way is nice to know, as it means no-one reading this blog is a total bike geek. The closest we got to that was Adrian Fitch, who scored two direct hits, and two very near misses. So Adrian...
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This via Da Square Wheel Man at the Bicycle Diaries: Stuart Kattell is cycling from Lands End to John O’Groats (that’s the whole length of the UK) to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support. Yeah, I know - loads of people cycle that route. I mean, c’mon, its only 800-odd miles, and he’s giving himself...
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Seems to me that there are two types of bikedom. On the one hand, in countries and societies where the car / automobile is king, there’s the Adult Toy culture (no, Honey-Bunny, not THAT sort of adult toy). Lots of Lycra and carbon fibre and a fixation with gear ratios. They wear helmets and Camelbaks,...
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Actually, not cards, but cars. And there were too many of them to count, so I contented myself with counting bikes. Last Sunday afternoon the weather was fine, so I set up my Action Camera lookout out of our  bedroom window to watch the road that runs outside the house, along the sea front. I...
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You may have noticed that I’ve changed the header image for this blog. Alternatively, you might be a first time visitor here, and you’re just wondering where the exit sign is. Whatever. Anyway, here’s  your chance to prove that you’re super knowledgeable about all things two-wheeled. The five little sketches of bikes up there are actually...
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I never could ride a skateboard. First of all, during the first skateboarding explosion in the UK in the mid-70’s, my parents wouldn’t let me have one because they were “too dangerous”. They may have had a point though - I next tried skateboarding in 1990, landing cripplingly well on my left hip. Not...
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. . . but you’ve gotta love them for it, the scamps! This video is via The Messenger of Doom, and features a bunch of guys and girls getting together for a bit of bike fun & racing. Not someone’s-gonna-die alleycat racing. But not quite as sensible & organised as some events I’ve been on...
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