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… or in other words, a snowball’s chance in hell. If we’d held out for a politically acceptable, affordable solution to problems in the past, we’d have probably decided that appeasement of the Third Reich was the way to win votes at home. Actually, it probably was the way to win votes at home, but...
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In general, I’m not such a fan of these. A bike with an electric motor? Really, you’ve got to be kidding me! That is SO missing the point. BUT . . . just sometimes, when the wind is in my face for the whole of the journey home . . . or I’ve left late...
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Flicking through my photos from Croatia, I came across this one of a bike parked up in Osijek: This bike was parked in the same location for several days, and I was left puzzling . . . Did the owner always park up int he same place, but having no saddle lock, take it with...
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It never ceases to amaze me the number of people I see riding around town on crazily shoddy mountain bike wannabe BSOs. Or probably even worse, the real deal - £2,000 worth of carbon, knobbly tyres and suspension travel to deal with roads that are for the most part smooth as Liv Tyler’s complexion....
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Remember the driver who managed to squeeze through an impossibly tight gap to get past me earlier in the week? The one to whom I should be grateful for not actually hitting me ? At the time, due to the feeble flash on my Blackberry, I couldn’t get a decent photo to record the details...
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If you saw the early 90’s Peter Pan film, Hook, you’ll probably remember the scene where the Lost Boys are trying to teach Peter to fly again. The basic premise is that you can only fly if you’re thinking happy thoughts. The happiness gives you wings and ta-da! you can fly! The thing is,...
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This week’s competition is simplicity in itself. All you have to do is correctly identify what this road sign, photographed by Alexander Somma , means: As usual, we’re offering a fabulous prize for this week’s lucky winner - a fine afternoon’s cycling along the waterfront. But you needn’t be a cyclist to enter this...
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Now there’s a phrase that you don’t often hear. While out riding on Sunday, we came across this - a Saunier Duval white van parked so as to block the cycle route completely. The only option was for us to break the law and cycle along the pavement (on the left of the...
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Yesterday was just a perfect day. I was supposed to go up to Newbiggin By The Sea with Daughter for one of my client’s inaugrial Sunday bike rides. But at getting-up time for this, it was lashing down, so I had an extra hour in bed, and by the time we got up, the...
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If you’re in the UK (and pay your electromagnetic radiation tax that gives you exclusive rights to the airwaves over mere tax-dodging radio users), you might have seen Bang Goes The Theory on BBC1 last night. The plot of last night’s programme was to try generating the power required for a family home...
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