Photographs

This weekend I was in That London for my oldest friend’s birthday party. An evening of booze and banging techno - I participated in the former, while enjoying observing the effects of the latter. Anyway, I took the train down, which left me with the problem of how to get from our house to Newcastle...
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Remember earlier in the week, I was asking how much water you take with you on longer rides ? Well there are obviously other problems on longer rides - all that water’s got to go somewhere, but you also need a comfortable saddle. Which I guess, is where these guys’ invention pretty much hits the...
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That green area behind the car is the cyclists’ waiting area, reserved for bikes, in front of the advanced stop line, where the car should have stopped? The car has stopped, blocking the pedestrian crossing? The driver made a valiant effort to beat the lights (racing past me in the filter lane), but...
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Does riding a traditional British roadster count as Ironman training? When you’re riding to the train station & back? Depends on your thinking really. I had just run 14 miles, this is a heavy bike, and the headwind on the way in was totally relentless. So I’m logging it! Workout: Type: Cycle Date: 03/19/2010 Total Time: 2:00:00.00 Calories: 1168 Distance: 24...
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I was looking for a photo of a bike wheel for tonight’s discussion at the Darlington Cycling Campaign , but instead I came up with this in Flickr’s Creative Commons images: This is probably why you should never lend your bike to a mechanical engineering student with too much time on his hands. Anyway, I’m...
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Pedestrian refuges / traffic islands - put there for your safety. On the one hand, they mean that pedestrians can cross roads one lane at a time. And drivers, get a greater perception of their speed, which hopefully means that they slow down. The trouble is, that there isn’t always room for a car AND...
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YOU KNOW WHEN YOU’VE HAD A PARTICULARLY CLOSE CALL WITH A CAR / BUS / LORRY / WHATEVER, WHEN YOU LOOK ACROSS AND REALISE THAT THE GUY CYCLING NEXT TO YOU SEEMS TO HAVE LOST TOO MUCH WEIGHT, IS CARRYING A SCYTHE, AND HAS EYES LIKE STARLIGHT GLITTERING ACROSS ETERNITY: SO FOR TODAY’S CAPTION...
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Not sure if you’ve seen this postcard - I think it’s from Sustrans: Anyway, this was confirmed last week with this video that I found on Imagine No Cars : Eeek! Yes, that is a man, that is a beard, and those are moobs. Mind you, it might not be cycling that shrinks underwear - it...
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Remember that whole thing that the strong should bow to the weak in transport? So cars give way to bikes, who in turn give way to pedestrians? Well, as you can see, it was alive and well in Whitley Bay last week: Oh, hang on a minute, I’ve got that wrong haven’t I? It’s just...
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We normally do our caption contest on Fridays, but today is the 8th March - International Woman’s Day. The bicycle is indeed a true freedom machine. It enables us to go places that are just too far to walk, without the need to be in a silly metal box for transportation. If you were a...
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