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The question posed today by the Fat Lad, which I picked up via The Bicycle Diaries was, Are dedicated bike lanes protecting you from cagers or treating cyclists as 2nd class road users? It’s one of those subjects like the ‘H’ word that’s sure to generate a stack of opinions, usually backed up with Science. Real...
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Hot news today - it snowed last night, and was really cold this morning. I was having a work from the office (home) day, but after dropping Daughter off at school, I took Huge Dalmatian for a walk. He’s a complete wuss when it comes to weather, and was definitely uncertain about the half...
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Not bad for a snappy title, huh? OK, so here’s my thing - just after I first graduated, I worked on Head Up Displays (HUDs) for fast jets. These are the things that pilots look through, and all sorts of useful data gets projected, focused so that it appears to be miles ahead of the...
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I’m on the LinkedIn Bike To Work Group, and last week the question raised was, Bicycle to a job interview? Good idea? Probably not, I’d guess, even assuming weather that would allow one to arrive comfortably in appropriate office attire. I recall once reading job interview tips that included renting an automobile in case one’s own...
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Wife was heading off out today to deliver some of her cards to a shop in Tynemouth, and then to head up to Monkseaton library to drop off some postcards publicising the Whitley Bay Book Group she’s starting for New Writing North. Naturally, she was riding, so as she set off I took a couple...
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Some people love the architecture, and some loathe it. Let’s face it, there’s a certain element of Borg Cube about it, and some of the tenants are cyborgs. The receptionist also once told me that “resistance is useless”, though that’s an entirely different story. But as an office space the Quadrus Centre’s not bad at...
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To celebrate having got my run yesterday done before 10pm, I had a couple of beers last night. And a nip of that nice Talisker. Oh, and forgot that for the rest of the day, all I’d had to drink was two cups of coffee in the morning, and a cup of tea in...
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A lot of cyclists get obsessed with high-visibility. Day-glo jackets, Scotchlite tape, more blinking LEDs than you can shake a stick at, and even changing the paint jobs on their bikes with stick-on patches. But there are two other things that you can use to make yourself more visible - especially to drivers of car’s...
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This via Tom Vanderbilt’s blog and the BBC today - crafty Nigerians are dodging new laws to force them and their passengers to wear helmets. But far from civil disobedience, they’ve got a cunning plan: Make their own helmets from hollowed-out pumpkins. No, really. The country’s unregulated moto-taxi service has particular problems as helmets are expensive,...
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