Bike to Work

It’s a strange job that I do. Today I was at BBC Radio Newcastle for a bit of chat about triathlons. It’d been organised by Keith from Highlights PR , who does the business for our team of enterprise coaches . I would have cycled into the studio, but I had good reason not to: For...
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Gah! You could be forgiven if you’ve just read my earlier oh-the-Zen-of-cycling post that today was a perfect day to be out on two wheels. Indeed, in many ways it was . . . apart from the fact that the Mafia have obviously just increased the bounty on my head. In all I had three...
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How about that for a snappy title to grab your attention? No? OK, here’s what I’m talking about. Spatial disorientation can occur in pilots who’ve not been trained to fly-by-the-instruments. On entering dense cloud, they lose visual cues as to which direction is "up", and in just a few minutes end up in the "graveyard...
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Sometimes it feels as if roads really are just for cars - especially the direct, get you from A to B roads that would be practical on a bike. Anyway, this video via Commute By Bike pretty much sums up what we all know - "impossible" is just a word that Luke Skywalker would use...
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According to our local weather forecast, today was the only day of the week where the weather was predicted to be anything other than underwater-rainy. Now, I don’t mind riding in the rain, but it’s 16 miles to work. On Siegfried that takes just over an hour, which...
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This is something that’s definitely close to my heart - as someone who was on the slide towards middle-aged spread, but is now very much reformed, I’m a bit like the people you know who’ve given up smoking. There’s none so zealous in the anti-smoking brigade as the reformed smokers! Anyway, take a look at...
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Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union seem to be engaged in some sort of bizzarre commercial suicide pact at the moment. To mark what may be the hastening of the end of this great British institution, today’s caption contest features a soon-to-be extinct feature of the British landscape - the postie on his...
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Almost a year ago, I want to see our local councilor with responsibility for transport to talk about cycling. In my dealings with the Cycling Projects Officer, I’d got the feeling that there was more going on than the council were being entirely open about. I thought that perhaps there was some sort of...
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This via Carbon Trace - a video that appeared on the Commute Orlando Blog , that shows in clear terms how far from a parked car is safe for overtaking. This was a real eye-opener for me, because I think that I generally overtake parked cars somewhere between the first and second position shown, and...
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So if I’m going to be riding wearing non-regular clothes, I thought I’d better take a look at my wardrobe. Remember just over a week ago, when I was wondering about muggle-repelling cycling jerseys ? Well I eventually decided on a design that I liked, and doesn’t use any recognised UK police devices, thereby not...
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