Posts Tagged ‘ bike hack ’

In the early 1930s, there were over 7,000 road deaths a year. Yet this was an era which we now look back on as some sort of rural idyl when compared with today’s roads - they had just two and a half million cars (WARNING: Links to a Daily Mail article. But it’s actually...
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For the last couple of years I’ve been using a pair of Dawes pannier bags on my Pashley. The trouble is that they’re not really designed for the chunkiness of the Pashley’s rack, and they’d also be really easy for someone to just lift off when the bike’s parked. It was to overcome these shortcomings...
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I thought you might want a bit more information on the headlamp upgrade I built for my Pashley’s hub-dynamo driven front light. You probably don’t, as you’d have to be the same sort of geek that I am to enjoy this, but what the heck - here they are anyway: First up, the circuit diagram...
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You can now pick up impressively bright LED torches for just a couple of pounds, and these are great for use as bike lights. The question is, how to attach them to your bike? True, you can get special velcro-fastening brackets, with a pair of cups at right angles - one cup sits on your...
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I was at Sustrans’ WhAT Fest a couple of weeks ago, when I spotted this bike. It belongs to James, the Sustrans area manager: Take a look at those mudguards though: They’re probably not the lightest mudguards you can get, but my guess is that on this bike, lightness isn’t really a concern. Hmmm. Mudguards are upwards...
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Last week’s caption contest only had one entry (what’s the matter the rest of you - cat got your tongue?), so Kim’s entry wins by default. It would probably have won anyway, so we’ll be sending the Middleton siblings around just as soon as we’ve got them into the shipping crate. The subject matter for...
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