Photographs

So there’s a whole lot of to and fro about this: Richard at Cyclelicio.us pointed out that the obvious answer that was missing was "because it’s fun", which seemed to get the Good People Of Copenhagen all vexed - to the point of wanting to get off the metaphorical bus: I got off the...
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One of the guys in the office has a yacht. I’m not talking about a dinghy, but a proper, pucker yacht. The kind of thing that you could use for sailing across oceans in comfort and style. Anyway, he says that the most dangerous thing on a boat is the calendar . You...
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So having realised that my running shoes had done somewhere over 500 miles, and that even short runs (like last Saturday’s jog around the park with Von Smallhaussen) were causing my knees problems, it was time to get a new pair: Yep - I went for another pair of Asics Gel Cumulus (my fifth...
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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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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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Look what arrived in the post: That’s my international race license - just 51 days ’till Ironman France! Eeeek!
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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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The car was at the menders today, and I had to get there to pick it up & take Daughter & friends to their Kung-Fu thing. As is normal in these circumstances, the wind had instantly changed direction and stiffened considerably as soon as I set off from work, so I had a real...
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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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