Photographs

Wow! Check out Yanek’s latest effort - a fantastic resuscitation job on a bike from the ’60s. From this: To this: Fantastic! There are more photos on Yanek’s Bicyclog pages. See - to get a new bike, you don’t need a shed load of money, just a keen eye for a classic, and a whole lot...
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The weather here today has been . . . unremittingly foul. So much for the forecast that said we’d have showers in the morning, but a clear afternoon. Not here, it wasn’t. Strong, cold wind from the South, continual rain, and the tang of sea spray in the air. Lovely. Still, that’s no excuse for...
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I had a meeting on Friday in York. That’s about 85 miles each way . . . even at my most mileage-obsessed, that’s too far to ride, so once again, I had to choose between the car or an alternative - in this case, public transport. This was an economic argument: My car’s good for...
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I took my camera out the other Sunday while I was taking Huge Dalmation for a walk along the promenade. I thought it would be fun to see what sort of people were out riding their bikes just half an hour after sunrise. It was no surprise to see a couple of roadies out,...
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The old Pashley tandem I bought a few weeks back is nearly finished. Finished enough to ride at any rate. Which is precisely what we did a couple of times over the weekend. Just after Daughter got back from school on Friday, I finally picked up the extra-long tandem gear cable I needed, and fitted...
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OK, so the raw figures of this ride look pretty sluggish. But I was on Wilf, my Sturdy Commuting Bike, and it was windy (not blowing a hoolie, but enough to slow you down, and somehow ALWAYS in your face). As usual I’d faffed about in the office before heading off for an after-lunch...
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I was out for a short run on Boxing Day with Huge Dalmatian. This was kind of a warm-up for the Pudding Run . . . and because even though it was technically only a fun run, I still had the “Oooooh! It’s race day!” feeling that’d got me out of bed far too...
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I’ve had some more fun with my camera-attached-to-bike. Now, I can show you what plays in my head when I’m cycling:
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So yesterday I had a meeting in Sunderland in the early evening. I could have driven the car, but to get through the Tyne Tunnel at 5:30 would have meant a journey time of almost an hour. So I cycled, doing the trip in 48 minutes I also fixed my camera to my...
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Well I’d meant to take my camera out for a run this evening to take some photos of this route. But what with one thing and another, I didn’t get out before dusk, and although my camera’s CCD is sensitive to infra red, I figured that a series of weird B&W photos of my...
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