Silly Stuff

Well, from the competition last week, we didn’t have any 100% correct answers. Which in a way is nice to know, as it means no-one reading this blog is a total bike geek. The closest we got to that was Adrian Fitch, who scored two direct hits, and two very near misses. So Adrian...
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Yesterday I mentioned Billy Connolly’s bicycle joke, which seemed particularly relevant after seeing this German bike-promoting advert on Copenhagenize. Somehow, I just couldn’t find any actual footage of the scene on the Michael Parkinson show. And that was a little annoying - I thought you could find anything on the Internet. SO I tried a...
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I came across this on Copenhagenize, and just had to show it here, ‘cos it reminded me of a gag told by my favourite comedian, Billy Connolly (who just happens to be a bit of a cyclist too).You can see the video after the joke, because by then, you’ll have guessed what the film’s...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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