Competition

Thursday is a bike day. We won’t let the weather, the clients we have to see, or the errands we have to run put us off doing it all on two-wheels. And this week, I had all three - cold & drizzly first thing in the morning; a meeting with a client that required...
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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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This week, I’ve been perusing pictures of partially-clad and naked cyclists - purely for research purposes, you understand. There are so many of these images that would be just perfect for our Friday Caption Contest that I’ve had a tough time narrowing them down to just one. In fact, I’ve had to look through the...
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This week we go all arty, with a photo from publicenergy’s Flickr photostream: It’s on Route 6 of the National Cycle Network, and is one of the many pieces of public art on the network, commissioned by those nice people at Sustrans. Anyway, here’s your chance to contribute - post your witty, ironic, or otherwise apt...
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Let it not be said that I can’t be topical. The Great Helmet Debate is heating up again, so today’s photo hooks right into that. This image comes from Pearlmonger’s Bristol to Bath Railway Path set on Flickr: To enter the competition, just post your caption below as a comment. Remember, I’m offering a prize that...
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It’s that time of the week, where you could win a prize beyond the dreams of mere avarice again: The admiration of your peers. A trawl through Flickr’s Creative Commons licensed photos today, brings this one taken by David M* at Burning Man 2006: Post your caption below!
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I was flicking through some of the great Creative Commons licensed photos on Flickr for some suitable bike chain images (and believe me, there are some great ones . . . ), when I came across this photo by Bluejoh. If that isn’t begging for some sort of caption contest, I don’t know what...
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They’re somewhere to park and lock your bike, aren’t they? You can buy them pretty much off the shelf from a bunch of companies that bang them out by the thousand to a range of standard designs. And when things are produced in volumes like that, they tend to be pretty inexpensive. Trust me, I know...
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. . . and a busy day. Wife’s abandoned me for a week’s gallivanting in That London. She’s staying with VonSmallHaussen, and according to the detailed & extensive itinery I’ve been left (she claims it’s so I’ll know where she is in case of emergencies. I think it’s to rub in what a great...
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I had a busy day in the office today (reading blogs, twittering, oh, and doing a bunch of research for an article), which spilled over into the evening. The result of this was that I didn’t get to go out for my run ’till far later than I’d usually like to. As in, I’d prefer...
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