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. . . check out this great video, which is part of the Fat Cyclist’s 100 Miles of Nowhere challenge: That looks tougher than I have words to describe. But it’s all in a good cause. If you watched the film, go and make a donation now.
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Just a short post here - I started a new job this week, so things have been (& still are) rather hectic over the last ten days or so. But today I went down to That London for the Pickwick Bicycle Club’s President’s Luncheon, as a guest of Carlton Reid, author of the Family Cycling...
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. . . but he was never the smartest of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. And thankfully, UK drivers stick to the speed limit, according to the Department for Transport’s A Safer Way: Consultation on Making Britain’s Roads the Safest in the World report: Click through on the graph and download the entire report from...
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My first car was a white 1962 Morris Minor. Actually, that’s not strictly true - before that I drove my mum’s 1966 one, and her 1972 van, which we took to the Reading Festival one year. All had ‘A Series’ engines, and I could strip them down to the con-rods & rebuild them with...
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(n.b. That’s a tongue in cheek title. We love Xtracycles.) ANYWAY, having made that clear, take a look at this, which I found via the Bicycle Diaries: Until the punchline, I thought it was going to be an advert from some lunatic “we’ve got a big enough army not to need to worry about any so-called...
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or the beginning of a tidal wave? Via Andy in Germany, Earth Hour 2009: 8:30pm on Saturday 28th March, wherever you are. Doing this sort of thing routinely (like, every day) is probably an indication of the scale of change that’s needed. Business as usual isn’t an option any more.
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Reading a couple of pieces over the last few days by Magic Roundabouts and Padded Pants, and Treadly and Me, and even this piece in the New York Times, I’ve been struck at the way we see differences in our fellow human human beings rather than the similarities. There’s some switch inside our brains that...
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Von SmallHaussen and I are already starting to plan for this year’s Dunwich Dynamo. It’s a 120 mile overnight ride from Darkest Hackney in London to Dunwich on the Suffolk coast. This year’s is on the evening of the 4th July, and we’ll be doing it in style on Daisy, accompanied by Algernond, Doktor Seth,...
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OK - a bit of a departure now from all that cycling in tweed I’ve been writing about of late. Fixed gear bikes. Yes I have one, and yes it’s lots and lots and lots of fun. I don’t know why. It. Just. Is. There’s just something about it that wires up my brain differently, and makes everything...
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Big day to day on Siegfried - dropping in to see Carlton Reid (excellent coffee - thank you!) on my way to the Team Valley, then across to a meeting near the Metro Centre, before heading home. In all, around 30-35 miles, and some ‘challenging’ hills. The last of these was on my route home...
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