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Gah! You could be forgiven if you’ve just read my earlier oh-the-Zen-of-cycling post that today was a perfect day to be out on two wheels. Indeed, in many ways it was . . . apart from the fact that the Mafia have obviously just increased the bounty on my head.
In all I had three...
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In no particular order for today . . .
Riding along and finding myself in the middle of a flock of flying seaguls. Thankfully none of them got too frightened
Watching the jackdaws gang up on a crow and "caw" him off the top of the lamp post
Dew on the rosehips
The family of swans on the...
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Now there’s a phrase that you don’t often hear.
While out riding on Sunday, we came across this - a Saunier Duval white van parked so as to block the cycle route completely. The only option was for us to break the law and cycle along the pavement (on the left of the...
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Yesterday was just a perfect day. I was supposed to go up to Newbiggin By The Sea with Daughter for one of my client’s inaugrial Sunday bike rides. But at getting-up time for this, it was lashing down, so I had an extra hour in bed, and by the time we got up, the...
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If you’re my kind of age, the chances are that you might have spent many a happy Saturday afternoon playing with computers on display in shops. I had hours of fun with this simple BASIC programme:
10 Print "This shop really sucks"
20 Goto 10
The computer screen would fill up with the words "This shop really...
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If you were campaigning to improve the quality of local cycle infrastructure, is this the sort of thing that you’d be demanding?
Make my journey a pleasant experience and not a daily struggle for space.
Give me and other cyclists priority over motor traffic.
Include sections free of motor traffic.
Stop buses, lorries and cars passing too close...
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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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Riding home along the path through the dunes south of Blyth today, a tiny sand-coloured dog charged straight at me. I stopped, as did the dog, facing me down.
Which of us would blink first?
The dog, which was only a puppy, and let out a terrified angry, barking yelp at the same time...
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This from the front page of today’s Whitley Bay News Guardian:
Hit and rund driver held on remand
A man charged in connection with a hit and run which left a Whitley Bay father fighting for his life has been remanded in custody.
Peter Rowell is accused of driving the car which collided with cyclist Alistair Barnett...
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. . . ‘cos it’ll come to get you.
We almost saw this happen today on our walk with Huge Dalmatian to St Mary’s Lighthouse and back. There was a family out on the rocks, watching the yatchs sailing past, and probably wondering what all that shouting was behind them.
By the time they realised that...
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