Do The Right Thing

No, not a bike for training. A bike train:
To build this, you’ll need as many steel-framed bikes as you’ve got friends who’re daft enough to want to ride the bike train. You could do it with aluminium bikes, but you’re going to be welding, which is easy-ish with steel, but the work of the […]

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Yeah, I’ve been away for a while. Not, ahem, away - inside, doing time, a six-to-three stretch, a bit of bird, banged up, (fitted up, I say), detained at Her Majesty’s pleasure, doing porridge, sewing mail bags, or even making little rocks out of big rocks.
No. Just away, not blogging. There are some reasons for […]

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No, I’ve never worn spandex hot pants. Well, there was once, but that was a long time ago. What I have in common with Abba is that I’m famous in Sweden.
Actually, I have no idea if Abba are actually famous in Sweden, or if they were just an export phenomenon.
Anyway. Whatever. I’m famous for appearing […]

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Here’s another, much shorter video from the Dunwich Dynamo XVI - something that I only noticed when reviewing the film footage.

Not that I’ve never done this sort of thing myself . . .

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Wife got me a present at the weekend - the DVD of Run Fat Boy, Run. This is a great film about a guy who blags himself an entry to a marathon with only three weeks to go ’till the race. He works really hard, and runs the race. Kind of. I mean, we all […]

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Shana and I went for an easy run this morning - down to Tynemouth and back. I’d wanted to go out along the North pier of the Tyne, but the gate wasn’t yet open, so we just cut the run short a little.
The first stretch of the return journey is to run up the bank […]

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. . . but I get the point of this video, found by Da Square Wheel Man:

The funny thing is, one of the guys at The Edinburgh Bicycle Cooperative in Byker has recently grown a mustache just like the one featured in the final shot. Maybe it’s his father in the film . . .?

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It must be. I mean, it’s just got to be CGI, hasn’t it? Maybe it’s a promo for the Ironman movie (see how we got the triathlon link in there?)
I hope it’s CGI, ‘cos otherwise it’s totally insane:

Found over at Tomorrow Morning’s Weather.

Filed under: IronMan?, Silly Stuff, Road Safety | 3 Comments »

With the increase in my mileage on the bike recently, my backside’s been feeling the pressure. So when I read about the delights of saddle sores (be sure to check out this picture - not for the faint-hearted), I decided that prevention was almost certainly better than cure & bought a tub of chamois cream […]

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So today is a long run, according to my schedule. I did ten miles, carrying fluids in a Karrimor waist belt that has pockets for 2 x 500ml bottles, and on a run/walk strategy with 60 seconds walk at every mile mark. This run didn’t seem as easy as the last time I did it, […]

Filed under: Run, Cycle, Injury, Silly Stuff, No More Excuses, Bike Culture | 1 Comment »