Family

Daughter was eying up Wife’s new bike a couple of weeks ago, and eventually confessed to having had a bit of a sit on it too. She needs a new bike, and we were thinking of something trendy & cruiser-ish, but it turns out that she’s really quite keen on the idea of a...
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There’s a reason that fewer women than men seem to ride their bikes in the UK. As explained in Beauty & The Bike , it’s the infrastructure - we’re expected to just mix in with the traffic, and it often just doesn’t feel safe, whatever the official statistics say. Warning: sweeping generalisations ahead. The thing is,...
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OK. So what’s the first thing you do with a new bike? Put it right of course! First up was the cable routing for the back brake: The problem here is that the cable’s sheath points upwards. When you ride in the rain, water gets inside this, forming a pool at the lowest point. Rusting,...
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After falling off Lilac last year & breaking her arm , it’s taken quite a while for Wife to want to ride a bike again. First of all there was the weeks & weeks spent in a cast, then the physio, and then it was winter (remember the weather? Even I was reduced to...
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So my Decadent In-laws are here to stay and it’s the school holidays. Normally I’d do my long ride on a Sunday, but we’d hatched a plan for a picnic on Holy Island - the family would drive, and I’d cycle there before hitching a lift home. I plotted my route . . . ....
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I left work early today to get my run in . . . and be home in time to go to the cinema with Daughter & Wife. But it was not to be - I’d eaten too much at lunch time, which made the run just plain uncomfortable and hard work. And it seems that...
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I’m reading the book of the film ‘Beauty and The Bike ‘ at the moment - it’s jam-packed with all sort of good stuff, and next up, I’ll be treating Daughter to a screening of the film. The makers have also done a follow-up, asking what happened next - it was posted on the...
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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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A friend of mine runs a company specialising in building web sites for on-line training. A while ago, they were asked to build a site that was something to do with cognitive behavioural therapy (a form of psychotherapy) , and the customer was absolutely insistent on having the acronym, CBT, in the domain name...
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It must have been a roller-coaster of a New Year. Because it completely slipped my mind that 1st January 2010 was the tenth anniversary of both my parents giving up smoking. Well done to the pair of you - I’m SO proud of your achievement!
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