Silly Stuff

Not sure if you saw the photos & video of the penny farthing rider who completed this year’s Dunwich Dynamo: OK, that might seem a little extreme, but then again Von Smallhaussen and I did the same event on a tandem lit up like a christmas tree, so who are we to judge? I mean, it’s...
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I had a bit of a strange day yesterday. A short 45 minute blast on the training bike (quicker than intended), and then when I got home, I thought the weather was just too perfect to drive to work. So after I’d showered, I saddled up Siegfried, and headed off to visit clients. Just...
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I mean, really. Just WTF? I’m hardly an expert when it comes to ‘long’ rides, but in this year’s Dunwich Dynamo I’ll be accompanied by some genuine novices. For one of these, the practicalities of 120 miles overnight, unsupported, with just one actual lavatory (at about 65 miles, and with a queue of ~200) might...
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Sometimes I can’t figure out if I’m poor, have an eye for a bargain, or am just plain tight. And not in the sense that Cameron from the Sarah Connor Chronicles would use to describe someone who’s cool either. So when I noticed that Evans Cycles were having an early summer sale, I was intrigued....
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Von SmallHaussen came up for this weekend. It’s basically the only chance we’re going to get to ride together on the tandem before the Dunwich Dynamo, so we wanted to get out there and put some miles in, but also to do this in all sorts of traffic conditions. So yesterday, we dropped Daughter off...
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This week, I’ve been perusing pictures of partially-clad and naked cyclists - purely for research purposes, you understand. There are so many of these images that would be just perfect for our Friday Caption Contest that I’ve had a tough time narrowing them down to just one. In fact, I’ve had to look through the...
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(You’ll have to click through to read the text of today’s Yehuda moon strip) Today on my ride into Newcastle, I had a passenger of a car lean out the window as he passed, shouting something or other (doppler - don’t you love it?), and pointing at his shaven head. He may have been indicating...
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Once again here’s your opportunity to win fame and admiration from your peers. This week you can try your hand at satire. Remember that Nice Congressman Patrick McHenry?  The one who’s such a hoot at parties, with his instantly recognised catchphrase, “I’m not making this up”? The one whose funding includes $30,000 from the National Auto...
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Reading a couple of pieces over the last few days by Magic Roundabouts and Padded Pants, and Treadly and Me, and even this piece in the New York Times, I’ve been struck at the way we see differences in our fellow human human beings rather than the similarities. There’s some switch inside our brains that...
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I started riding again because I realised that doing the same thing, but expecting different results is a pretty workable definition of insanity. It suddenly struck me about four years ago that sitting inside a tin box going no-where fast, and expecting everyone else to get out of my way wasn’t working. And that expecting...
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