Silly Stuff

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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A friend of mine runs a company specialising in building web sites for on-line training. A while ago, they were asked to build a site that was something to do with cognitive behavioural therapy (a form of psychotherapy) , and the customer was absolutely insistent on having the acronym, CBT, in the domain name...
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Did I get your attention with that title? OK, so there’s a lot of rubbish written about cycling - stuff about how all cyclists jump red lights, how it’s really, really dangerous, and if you believe the Daily Mail amongst others , it’s a sure-fire route to erectile dysfunction and significantly reduced sperm count. Apparently, …competitors...
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… they’d try to copy the best bits of bike technology into their cars: They’d figure out how to get over 1,500mpg They’d always leave you with a smile on your face They’d allow you to connect to your surroundings Most of the bits on them would be simple enough for the average Joe / Joanna to figure...
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Just another monday morning in the pool. Before I left the house, I had First Breakfast of a cinnamon bagel that I’d defrosted from the freezer before slicing in two & toasting. Note to self: This process seems to turn yummy bagels into yummy pieces of leather. Workout: Type: Swim Date: 02/01/2010 Time: 07:00:00 Total Time: 00:50:00.00 Calories: 365 Distance: 1,600 m Average...
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To stop your bike getting stolen this winter . . . … hide it in the snow. Better still, get a friendly snow plough driver to bury it. That way if part of the bike is still visible, anyone wanting to steal it will either have to dig through the compacted ice &...
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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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