Posts Tagged ‘ bicycle ’

We had some great entries for last week’s caption contest. I wish you could all be winners, but alas, there can be only one. So after much deliberation, our panel of judges have decided that Tom’s entry (”Warning, signs thrown from bridge”) showed that local knowledge can often give you the edge on a...
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OK, so it’s Saturday and not Friday. Whatever. This photo comes from what is definitely the strangest site I have ever found - Fuck Yeah, Bikes And Beards. Before you head over to check out the depths of the strangeness, I should point out that what looks like an ironic / joke homoerotic cyclist fetish...
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Last week we took a bit of a mini-break down to Kent to visit my parents, and then back home via Hotel Von SmallHaussen in That London on Friday, and Auberge Algernond in Cambridge on Saturday night. The trip to London was interesting - I managed to get a parking ticket through my own stupidity...
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I’m constantly amazed at the stuff people invent. Sometimes it’s useful, and satisfies a need to make things easier / safer / more fun / whatever. And sometimes it seems that it’s main purpose is to sell more stuff. Like this product, which surely must be a candidate for the WTF Product Of The...
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My comrade O’Brien would be proud of this. A first class piece of doublethink that encapsulates two apparently contradictory ideas. Yet by an act of will, you can see what you know to be the truth - irrespective of what’s before your eyes. Doublethink is the ability to find evidence for what...
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Saw this video on Copenhagenize today - superb graphics to put across the message, and to make it seem totally normal and achievable. This is proper marketing that appeals to your heart and your wallet! For my own part, I do something similar-ish - I ride once a week to work. It would be more...
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Over the last week or so there’s been a few videos of historical traffic situations posted - from Portland, Copenhagen and Amsterdam . So I thought it would be interesting to see what the UK looked like in a similar period. What I found on YouTube was this fantastic video, which I think is from...
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