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Take a look at this film from Andyb0000 on YouTube - pause it and note down the time in the film at which you’d identified what was going to happen: Thankfully, Andy is on the mend, but his footage raises some interesting questions about the degree of vigilance that’s needed to ride on the roads...
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I got this in my email yesterday (I’ve added in some pictures here to brighten it up): The price of oil is as low as it has been for a while but the oil companies have simply jacked their prices up and the government will not do anything as they rake in extra VAT for...
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I’ve never really fitted in. Either too far ahead of the curve, reveling in the newness of it all, or waaay behind - a laggard unable to fix something that ain’t broke just to keep up with the cool kids. So it is with riding bikes. Am I a Cycle Chic proponent of the Slow...
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Last Friday (a whole week ago) was my comeback gig . . . a return to the live circuit . . . the stage and the thrill of the crowd. Or something like that anyway. I was the guest speaker at The Darlington Cycling Campaign . The subject was, "What’s needed to make riding a...
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We’ve negotiated flexi-time at work! This means that as I work really very hard indeed (you just can’t do enough for a good boss*), I’m effectively getting an EXTRA 24 days holiday a year. Technically, that means I have enough holiday to take 52 days a year off. Tempting . . . but not...
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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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… weekend, gay rights, the right to form a union, the abolition of slavery, everything was won by disobedience" Sometimes I’m very, very boring and conventional. And I’m not entirely sure of the merits of a mass civil disobedience event at the COP15 UN Summit (will the protest achieve it’s aims, or result in a...
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If you were campaigning to improve the quality of local cycle infrastructure, is this the sort of thing that you’d be demanding? Make my journey a pleasant experience and not a daily struggle for space. Give me and other cyclists priority over motor traffic. Include sections free of motor traffic. Stop buses, lorries and cars passing too close...
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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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. . . I have a memory like a sieve. I meant to post this a couple of days ago, just before your Champagne treasure hunt on bikes to celebrate the opening of your concession on Oxford Street in That London. Anyway . . . A big, big “Wooo!” to the very nice people at Cyclodelic,...
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