Silly Stuff

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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I’m seeing more and more of these strange little cartoon video things from Xtranormal . For me (seeing as I work in a Kafka novel set on the fringes of local government), the TV series The Office was just too painful - too full of the sort of power-deranged, delusional madness that I saw every...
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I remember in The Good Old Days, when you could see the strings and the tell-tale focusing errors of stop-motion animation. But not any more. Just take a look at this, which I found on Velorution this evening: I really don’t know if this is CGI or not. I bet he’s a complete nightmare in...
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For some time now, I’ve hankered after building bikes from scratch. I mean, building the whole frame from lengths of steel tubing, and hand-cast lugs. Actually, not from lengths of steel tubing, but from iron ore that I smelted myself, and then converted to steel in a Bessemer converter in my shed, and then...
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No, not the kind of French lesson that’s of questionable use . . . No, I’m assuming that you’ve got yourself off the quayside and on the ferry to France (or for that matter Quebec) and that you now want to hire a bike. But zut alors ! You don’t...
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This comes via BikeSnob New York City. Anyway, it’s a great film full of snigger-worthy moments. And no, I’m not going to comment on the "always wear protection" line.
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One of those bizarre coincidence things again this morning. I was looking for a Christmas prezzie for (well, I’m not going to tell you who, in case they’re reading this. Let’s just say that they DO ride a bike) over on threadless.com where I found this: I was thinking of ordering and mulling it...
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One of the institutions of British cycling is the British Heart Foundation’s London to Brighton Ride . With 27,000 riders heading out to cause traffic mayhem (the roads on the route are closed to proper, tax-paying traffic…) the ride’s about 60 miles, and the event has been run since 1980. But actually, it’s a...
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I’m trawling through Youtube & Vimeo to try to find a clip showing what cycling was like in the UK in the 1950s for comparison with the vid of the same era from the Netherlands, as shown by David Hembrow & Amsterdamize . Not much luck so far . . . but I did find...
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Obviously there have been some refinements since these earlier models were demonstrated.
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