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What could be more Danish than this:
A bicycle made from Lego!
Lots more photos and pricing (hint: Ultegra Di2 costs a whole lot less) over at the artist, Sean Kenney’s site. He even does a cool little Lego Christiana Bike model, but that’s only in a more traditional Lego scale!
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I’ve been away for a while. No - not “away” like Marty McFly’s uncle Joey - I mean just busy. Flat out full-on deadline-passing late and trying to catch up busy.
Anyway, today I was riding in the rain through the excellent cycle facility that is Newcastle’s Percy Street, when I heard the loudest, strangest...
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The Tyne & Wear Metro doesn’t allow bikes. Apparently non-folding bikes are uniquely dangerous, although the Tyne & Wear Passenger Transport Authority can’t supply their risk assessments that led them to this conclusion. And despite years of lobbying, the Metro’s operator, Nexus won’t consider even a limited trial either.
So in response to this “Metro...
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I’ve been busy all week (so not much in the way of posts for the last seven days), but I did manage to get our panel of judges together for long enough to decide the winner of last week’s competition. The obvious winner was mikey2gorgeous, with
“Sam-Cam using SRAM passes pavement parker in parka while...
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Hmmm… I fear that I may have given you too much to look at last week. So you all got distracted, and seemed to provide captions for whichever photo took your choice. Naturally this made judging in a completely fair & unbiased manner rather difficult. In the end we chose the winner by scratching your answers...
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The plan was simplicity in itself: Tall Robbie and I would get the train across to Whitehaven on Friday evening, B&B overnight, and then cycle back on Saturday. Somewhere between 130 and 140 miles, with around 10,000ft of climbing in the last days of winter.
What could possibly go wrong?
Seeing as the plan was to...
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From my bimble around Co Durham, Gateshead and Newcastle last Friday:
I saw a cycle lane in Chester le Street… that you’re not allowed to use once it re-joins the road:
I saw the latest in Gateshead Council’s continued efforts to build the world’s first nanometre scale cycle lane:
(Surely this one is worthy of the Warrington...
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First of all, a jolly big “well done” to all of you who entered last week’s contest. Sadly, there can only be one winner, and the best bribes were provided by KarlT with his caption,
“It’s used for emphasis when you tell a pig ignorant taxi driver to go fsck himself.”
Thanks for the crate of...
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You know that McCracken’s First Law applies:
The strength of the headwind is directly proportional to how late you are.
If you try to cheat, by grabbing a quicker, sleeker, lighter bike (reasoning that you’ll easily make up the time required to get changed at the other end), McCracken’s Second Law comes into play:
The probability of...
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No - it’s not been stolen. This is just a little game for anyone around Tyneside. All you have to do is correctly identify these locations I visited yesterday. There’s a prize of course - you’ll get to feel smug about your local knowledge.
We’ll start with an easy pair:
Too easy for you? How about...
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