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Big ride today - nearly 80 miles playing in the hills of County Durham, getting as far as Wolsingham & then coming home via Durham and the Angel. I had an incident at a set of lights that made me question the safety of my pedantic attitude to red lights. You see, when I...
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Bikeportland.org yesterday featured a map showing their local accident blackspots for cyclists: What you’ll notice from this is that accidents seem to happen more on busier streets, and most frequently at junctions. (In other news, the sky is apparently blue, grass green, and dogs found to bark). You can see this even more clearly on...
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There’s been some chatter recently about road signs. Apparently there are a whole new set of ‘em being rolled out across the US, as shown here on cyclelicio.us : In the UK, we’re seeing more of these ones, which allow bikes to contraflow the wrong way down one-way streets: Strangely, I’m not so...
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Riding in the rain? With a white shirt on? And no mudguards? How dare you turn up to work with that streak of black road-grime up your back - go home and get changed at once! Oh, and a huge thank you to Yokota Fritz at Cyclicio.us for the pointer on this one - I...
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I’m a huge fan of Yehuda Moon, and last Friday evening I started doodling bike stuff on a napkin in a restaurant – just to keep Daughter entertained. What I came up with was this (now re-drawn – I don’t routinely take colouring
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This via a comment by Scubamatt on today’s Yehuda Moon strip: Man convicted in orange rabbit pedicab hit-and-run Friday, October 30, 2009 By The Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Mercedes driver testified he didn’t see the 6-foot-tall orange rabbit driving a pedicab because he was fumbling for a dropped cell phone. Pedicab driver Kate Altermatt...
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. . . and your free-running, parkour high-jinks. Because this is the real deal - an amazing video via a comment by ‘BSO’ in today’s Yehuda Moon strip: Skip past the first few seconds of tricks (which I thought was going to be one of those "Oh look, my friend impaled himself on some railings, but...
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I’ve recently been reading with interest the cycling / cycling commuting tips from the land of Magic Roundabouts . These have struck a bit of a nerve with me, and made me realise that where I’m working now is currently outside of sensible-commuting-in-regular-clothes distance. The 35 mile round-trip is perfectly do-able, but the weight of...
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Sometimes when riding on the road, I wish I were carrying some sort of motor vehicle repellent. Or maybe wearing some sort of muggle-repelling pheromone spray. muggle (n.) one who would rather drive the four miles to work than get on a bike and ride it. See also delusional and denial It’s one thing passing another...
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This is a brilliant idea – via Bike Hacks. It’s a bunch of ‘rust’ stickers that you can apply to your swish and fast ride to make it look like a pile of junk that’s not worth stealing. Given the intelligence of the average
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