Photographs

Time was short today, with a whole bunch of stuff that needed doing at home. It was also pretty cold out, and threatening to rain, so I wimped out and did the week’s long ride on the turbo. I had to put a film on to take my mind off the whole riding-indoors-going-nowhere thing, and...
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Spin classes. Kinda fun . . . and you get out of breath and you sweat a lot. And there’s the sort of music that I’d usually run a mile from, but it just adds to the fun. BUT… I’m not sure spin classes are that good for your cycling - for two reasons: I pedal...
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To win our fabulous prize for this week’s Caption Competition, all you have to do is come up with a suitable caption for this photo from BikePortland.org : So what do you think happened here? How did this enormous car get upside-down on a bike trail? What’s the back-story to the scene? What’s the...
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Look what turned up in my email this week: I’m sure the sentiment’s one of kindness, but do they not know how painfully aware I am that there are just 169 days left to go now? *Gulp*
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Blah, blah, blah. See what you can make of this one: This week we’ve got a great prize for one lucky winner: Studded tyres, a shovel, and a flask of Wife’s fabulous soup. Mmmmmmm . . . !
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Remember when you were a kid, and you rode your bike for about 22 hours a day, every single day of the summer holidays? Did you ever give your bike a motor sound, by fixing a piece of cardboard to the frame with a clothes peg, so that the spokes would flick it as...
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It was so cold yesterday that I forgot to put this one up - a photo of a bike that’s evolved for winter conditions: So huddle close to the keyboard and see if you can come up with a suitable caption for this photo. As usual we have a fabulous prize for one lucky...
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This caught my eye last Sunday. It’s one of those photos that’ll probably have already done the rounds, so you’ve probably already seen it. But it seems pretty much on-the-nail for a Christmas Day caption contest, so see what you can make of it: This week’s prizes will be widely distributed . . ....
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I was lucky enough to get one of Carlton Reid’s Christmas E-cards today, and this little thingamajig caught my eye midway through the animation: Some sort of cool, carbon fibre modern version of a Penny Farthing? I had to get more information - I could almost see this coming in really handy (because after...
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There’s been some chatter recently about road signs. Apparently there are a whole new set of ‘em being rolled out across the US, as shown here on cyclelicio.us : In the UK, we’re seeing more of these ones, which allow bikes to contraflow the wrong way down one-way streets: Strangely, I’m not so...
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