Friday Caption Competition

What’s happening here? Answers on a post card to the usual address. Or failing that, just leave a comment below.
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Last week I did a stint on the CoBi UK John O’Groats to Lands End record attempt . I did just one day, which was about as tough as it gets. The two organisers Ed and Jack are doing THIRTY days of this, and a couple of my fellow galley slaves did three (respect!)....
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So before China got capitalism, we all know they had slave labour - or so it was alleged. Come to think of it, the same allegations are made about the wages paid in modern China, but that’s a completely different story, isn’t it? Anyway, for this week’s caption contest, we have a photo from China...
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So this photo was on Fat Man On A Bike a while ago , but it seems kinda topical now: Looks to me like the bastard offspring of a bike & a vuvuzela created by the South African team’s supporters for the Tour De Pays De Galle. But I’m sure you can come up with...
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This was in Copenhagenize earlier in the week - a bicycle orchestra from the Netherlands (where else?). I guess it puts the Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain in its place: The thing is, a six-seater tandem, being ridden by men in uniform, who’re playing a variety of instruments is just begging for a caption...
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In a week where we’ve been looking at electric bikes, and the possible next doomsday to hit us, i came across this photo featured on the excellent Bike Hugger site: Yep - that’s some sort of electrically assisted cargo tricycle thing. And the photo is just begging for a...
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Yep - the morning after the night before. Waking up wondering who’d thought the S&M club was a good idea; alarmed at the emptiness of your wallet; having a vague memory of absinthe depth-charges in the snakebite; and realising that last night’s "conquest" (currently snoring next to you) is a 15st tranny called...
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With less than a week to go ’till the UK’s General Election, this week’s competition is simple: What’s wrong with this photo, allegedly depicting a bike made for the Republican Convention in the US? Elephants can’t assume that position. Ever. Wearing a helmet to ride an elephant bike? I tell ya’, it’s elephant safety gone mad. Wearing...
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You’ve heard that phrase about how a camel is a horse designed by a committee? Can you imagine what would happen if a bike were designed by a committee? No, we’re not talking about how recumbents got invented, but it could explain this: Any idea at all what’s going on in either of these...
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Bicycle luggage never seems big enough. Still, as Bradley Allen demonstrates on Flickr , you can fit half a dozen essential items into a front bag: Anyway, knock a tiny hole into each end of this, blow the contents out of it and paint it. Or alternatively, see if you can come up with...
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