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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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You’ve heard that phrase about how a camel is a horse designed by a committee? Can you imagine what would happen if a bike were designed by a committee? No, we’re not talking about how recumbents got invented, but it could explain this: Any idea at all what’s going on in either of these...
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The papers today are full of this - a bike lane that takes up half the road: I was particularly impressed by the Daily Express’ title for the story: BIKE LANE WIDER THAN THE ROAD THIS must be Britain’s craziest cycle lane – wider than the rest of the main road. The new super-size lane...
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So my Decadent In-laws are here to stay and it’s the school holidays. Normally I’d do my long ride on a Sunday, but we’d hatched a plan for a picnic on Holy Island - the family would drive, and I’d cycle there before hitching a lift home. I plotted my route . . . ....
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. . . or at least that’s the title of this Creative Commons photo by t-dawg on Flickr : To be fair, this is probably a little ostentatious for my tastes, though I like the attention to detail on the locking, looking after that Brooks (a B33?) saddle. Not sure about the actual quality...
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Remember the way to protect your bike? Use a good quality, small U-lock that’s very difficult to attack by jacking. Just like this, that I saw in Ashington yesterday: That’d be a security failure then.
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When I was 12 years old, I first started riding to school. It was five miles each way, along some relatively busy roads. Yet there weren’t so many cars on the roads, and drivers seemed to have a whole lot more awareness of other road users. I can’t think of a single instance of...
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I got this in my email yesterday (I’ve added in some pictures here to brighten it up): The price of oil is as low as it has been for a while but the oil companies have simply jacked their prices up and the government will not do anything as they rake in extra VAT for...
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You can never carry enough to drink in these things. So people try getting more on the bike. But using the same kind of flawed thinking doesn’t produce very practical results: Or if you’re out to impress the girls, there’s this: Which makes perfect sense when you think about it. I mean, we all...
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I’ve never really fitted in. Either too far ahead of the curve, reveling in the newness of it all, or waaay behind - a laggard unable to fix something that ain’t broke just to keep up with the cool kids. So it is with riding bikes. Am I a Cycle Chic proponent of the Slow...
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