Bike Culture

I read with interest when people on the Twitters talk about “out of season”, or “non-biking” days. Then I look at my calendar: … which can be analysed thus: … and I figure that I must be doing something wrong.
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This comes via TownMouse’s Twitters. Press the “full-screen” button in the bottom right when you play it - this is ten minutes of proper lump-in-the-throat cinema:
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Oh! Last week’s competition! Just so difficult to pick an absolute winner. But like in that film Highlander, there can be only one. It has to be John The Monkey, who took the only route guaranteed to win the lottery. John - remember, in the real national lottery, your buy-every-ticket-method is guaranteed success IF: You buy...
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This via LBC: In a previous City Hall Question Time, Boris revealed that overall, things are safer for cyclists - the KSI rate (the proportion of cyclists killed or seriously injured per journey, or per number of kilometres cycled) IS reducing. Let’s be clear about this - It’s A Good Thing. The problem is, that there’s lies, damned lies...
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Here’s a funny thing about the Internet - it’s a PR disaster waiting to happen. It seems the driver featured in this video (filmed by one of the government’s special surveillance droids in the South) didn’t like people seeing how he was driving, and managed to persuade Youtube to take it down. The trouble is, the...
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The Tyne & Wear Metro doesn’t allow bikes. Apparently non-folding bikes are uniquely dangerous, although the Tyne & Wear Passenger Transport Authority can’t supply their risk assessments that led them to this conclusion. And despite years of lobbying, the Metro’s operator, Nexus won’t consider even a limited trial either. So in response to this “Metro...
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I’ve been busy all week (so not much in the way of posts for the last seven days), but I did manage to get our panel of judges together for long enough to decide the winner of last week’s competition. The obvious winner was mikey2gorgeous, with “Sam-Cam using SRAM passes pavement parker in parka while...
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This, via the London Cycling Diary - it’s a spoof product and of no practical use, but I still want one:
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Hmmm… I fear that I may have given you too much to look at last week. So you all got distracted, and seemed to provide captions for whichever photo took your choice. Naturally this made judging in a completely fair & unbiased manner rather difficult. In the end we chose the winner by scratching your answers...
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You probably know that I’m a big fan of Rick Smith’s daily comic strip, Yehuda Moon. It’s the story of daily life in a bike shop, owned by ex-commercial property developer and idealist Yehuda Moon, and staffed by racer-turned-wrench Joe King and Thistle Gin - a hot, tech-savvy woman with a degree in engineering. ANYWAY. Thanks...
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