Silly Stuff

Just too funny - The Shit Cyclists Say, via peopleforbikes.org:
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This story was highlighted in the comments of today’s Yehuda Moon strip - a bear escaping from Berlin zoo a few years ago . . . and attempting to make his gettaway on a bike. No, this isn’t the bloke from the passing-basketballs-are-you-paying-attention video doing a bit of moonlighting (he also wears a rather...
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I’ll bet that they’re nothing like the ones this guy does: Note to self: If I ever find myself able to do stuff like that, I should stop right away. Then again, this might be just the sort of thing you’d love to be able to do, you can learn these skills from YouTube. n.b. I...
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Great run this evening on a new route - into Newcastle and back: And I got to stop briefly at Carlton Reid’s cocktail bar half way round too. Unfortunately they were right out of Bambino Splash (pint glass - half fill with snakebite, and top up with snowball), but they did have water for...
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We were talking earlier in the week about how impatience & being a slave to the clock is the biggest danger on the road . Well maybe there’s a cure for that sort of thing - this video’s been around for a while, and I’m pretty sure it’s a spoof . . . but...
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My friend Yves loves to go surfing - just down the road we have one of the best surfing beaches in the UK, Tynemouth Longsands. The thing is, there are only so many hours in the day, and to fit in his surfing, he’s often in the water at 5 a.m. But Yves also...
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It’s that time of year again - April is the cruelest month. It looks like summer; it sounds like summer; it even smells like summer. But it’s not. This morning was one such morning. Bright, bright sunlight, coupled with a wind straight from the Arctic circle. The trouble was that I’d got...
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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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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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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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