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Congratulations to Andreas and Saprice02 , who both correctly guessed what the mystery bikehack was for. Fat Rob will be round to see you some time in the next week, wearing his rubber romper suit, a seductive grin, and carrying a tub of butt lube menthol canapé dip. Made from solvent-welded PVC piping, this bikehack...
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This weekend I was supposed to be doing the Coast to Coast. But unfortunately my training buddy had to go to Luxembourg for the week. So Tall Robbie and I did the Great North Bike Ride instead. I was really impressed that he was allowed out to play for this, as it was...
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The hot spring news is that over in Copenhagen, they’ve just got their first bicycle police unit (I know - talk about ironic!) The photos of bicycle police posted on Copenhagenize.com got me wondering what bicycle police look like all over the world . . . so I did a trawl through Flickr’s Creative Commons...
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Today looked like spring, so what better weather for riding could there be? Not too hot, not too cold, but just right. So I visited two clients on Siegfried, and on the trip to the second one (just after lunch time) it was warm enough to put my nice red woolen jumper in my...
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Like John The Monkey said in a recent comment, people need better writers for this stuff - that’s such a lame headline! So anyway, I’d thought that winter was over, that as a wise politician once said, the green shoots of recovery are just around the corner. To prove it, I rode in to my...
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. . . and a busy day. Wife’s abandoned me for a week’s gallivanting in That London. She’s staying with VonSmallHaussen, and according to the detailed & extensive itinery I’ve been left (she claims it’s so I’ll know where she is in case of emergencies. I think it’s to rub in what a great...
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Not bad for a snappy title, huh? OK, so here’s my thing - just after I first graduated, I worked on Head Up Displays (HUDs) for fast jets. These are the things that pilots look through, and all sorts of useful data gets projected, focused so that it appears to be miles ahead of the...
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I’d already been out to walk Huge Dalmatian just after dusk, and even then there was a heavy frost faorming. Two hours later when I went of my run, it was seriously cold - I mean real freeze-your-face-off-cold. I was tempted to head straight back indoors, and clip some LEDs to my clothing, so...
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So I used to think that I was maybe a little paranoid about the way people drive around bikes. Or more specifically, about how people drive around my bike, when I’m riding it. But after today, I’ve realised that it isn’t paranoia - they really are all out to get me. Today I had FIVE assassination...
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After finding out about Daisy’s brakes in the rain, I wasn’t too keen at all on collecting Daughter from her stage class on the Tandem. So I thought I’d kill two birds with one stone, and run home with her. That way, we wouldn’t be driving (not that we can this weekend), AND she’d...
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