Friday Caption Competition

Remember earlier in the week, I was asking how much water you take with you on longer rides ? Well there are obviously other problems on longer rides - all that water’s got to go somewhere, but you also need a comfortable saddle. Which I guess, is where these guys’ invention pretty much hits the...
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I was looking for a photo of a bike wheel for tonight’s discussion at the Darlington Cycling Campaign , but instead I came up with this in Flickr’s Creative Commons images: This is probably why you should never lend your bike to a mechanical engineering student with too much time on his hands. Anyway, I’m...
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YOU KNOW WHEN YOU’VE HAD A PARTICULARLY CLOSE CALL WITH A CAR / BUS / LORRY / WHATEVER, WHEN YOU LOOK ACROSS AND REALISE THAT THE GUY CYCLING NEXT TO YOU SEEMS TO HAVE LOST TOO MUCH WEIGHT, IS CARRYING A SCYTHE, AND HAS EYES LIKE STARLIGHT GLITTERING ACROSS ETERNITY: SO FOR TODAY’S CAPTION...
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We normally do our caption contest on Fridays, but today is the 8th March - International Woman’s Day. The bicycle is indeed a true freedom machine. It enables us to go places that are just too far to walk, without the need to be in a silly metal box for transportation. If you were a...
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This week I’ve had a good trawl through the Creative Commons images of bicycles on Flickr. I was going to treat you to a juxtaposition of the fashion industry’s view of bikes, and what I think it is that we the people would want to see. But then I came across this photo by...
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This week’s caption contest features some Australian law-breaking - a guy using a bike without a helmet (Gasp!): See what you can make of this photo - it’s just begging to have a caption added. You can enter our competion by leaving a comment below. This week though, everyone’s a winner . Yes that’s right! Whether...
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UK traffic engineers frequently seem to have a warped sense of perspective when it comes to bikes. The thinking seems to go along the lines of, Bikes huh? You mean those insanely dangerous things that people need protecting from using, by forcing them to stop and start their journeys as often as possible, while staying...
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There are some strange bikes out there . . . I’m sure you can come up with a suitably ironic caption for this photo. And if you do, you could win our fabulous prize for this week: A fuel duty-free flight to a warmer world. This is a great prize brought to you by the Tax-Dodging...
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Remember Max Headroom ’s back story? About how the last thing his human form saw was the sign announcing the maximum headroom of a car park? Maybe this bike owner was a fan: I’m sure that you can come up with a suitable caption for this photo . . . or maybe the wording...
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To win our fabulous prize for this week’s Caption Competition, all you have to do is come up with a suitable caption for this photo from BikePortland.org : So what do you think happened here? How did this enormous car get upside-down on a bike trail? What’s the back-story to the scene? What’s the...
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