Do The Right Thing

I went to visit a prospective new client on the Team Valley on Friday. While there, the conversation got around to cycling (funny how that happens), even though I’d taken a change of clothes, and was looking almost sharp. The woman I was talking to lives within a few miles of me, and said that […]

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The training schedule had me down for a 45/10 brick this morning, so last night I was early to bed and raring to go when the alarm went off at just after six.
My ride earlier in the week had left me a little sore in the . . . um . . . undercarriage region. […]

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Yesterday the weather was forecast to be mostly good, and I had a meeting scheduled with a client that my SatNav said was only 36 miles away by bike. Hmmm . . . with fuel prices now at £1.30 a litre (that’s $9.60 for a US gallon) (So all you in the USA moaning […]

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I was at a training workshop today on the other side of Gateshead. For once I was in the audience (throwing soft fruit, insults, etc), and I had a few items to pick up on the way home . . . But Gateshead’s still within 15 miles of home, so I just had to cycle. […]

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After the mayhem of Daughter’s birthday party yesterday, I ended up drinking a little more than intended over dinner with my parents last night. So the plans for an early O’clock ride went right out the window, and I ended up not leaving the house ’till almost two O’clock. Not due to a hangover, I […]

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The weather forecast for tomorrow is for snow. We won’t get much here (the sea keeps us nice and ‘warm’, but that’s a strictly relative term), and although I don’t mind riding on snowy roads, you do have to take things carefully. So any training session would end up being more about spending time with […]

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Help - this is getting ridiculous!
Our local TV news ran a piece based on my YouTube video about the [not quite, or in fact even near to] shortest bike lane in the country. Apparently I’m now “cycling groups in Gateshead”,  and to protect me from being mobbed / rising up like an angry mob on […]

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It turns out that here in the UK we really are world class. After seeing my short bike lane film, DaveP suggested on quickrelease.TV that I look up the Warrington Cycle Campaign’s pages. They have a feature called Cycle Facility of the Month, pouring ridicule on the daft things our town planners do to ‘help’ […]

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My little video about the cycle lane in Gateshead has gone mainstream. The Newcastle Journal ran it today as their front cover story, with the main details taking up most of page 3!
Naturally they wanted pictures to go with the story (my good looks sell papers? Something like that, I’m sure), and naturally I had […]

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There’ve been a couple of posts in the last few days about short, stupid, pointless cycle lanes - Bike Hugger has one, and so does Slate V (seen on the excellent Bicycle Diaries). The trouble is that both of these examples were from the USA, and as we know, everything’s bigger in America. The thing […]

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