Posts Tagged ‘ bike ’

So here’s a question for you: Drinking and riding. Tuesday night, I was supposed to be running in the North Shields Poly Grand Prix 5k race. But owing to some serious man-flu (and a note from my mum) was only able to stand at the turn-around point to feebly cheer my team-mates’ efforts. We were supposed...
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Whether you view a bike as a piece of sports equipment, or just a means to get around town, sooner or later you’re going to realise that cycling and drinking mix really well thogether - either a mouthful of warm electrolyte supplements chugged down when you can get it, or a beer with your...
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It’s really, really, really windy today. 30mph cross-winds that left me with an earache by the time I got to the office. It would have been great to get some shelter from that, though if there’d been a giant space monster thing to hide behind, I doubt I’d have had the courage of these...
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… then three com along at once. Obviously by now you’ve downloaded the Bike Hub app … … but there’s also the CycleStreets one that uses the same map data (though I’ve found this app a little less stable)… And now there’s also the Fill That Hole app from CTC - with this you can...
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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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Daughter loves to ride her bike, and she’s also always been obsessed with dalmatians. So when I got her a new old bike (the second Raleigh Shopper in the house), it seemed a good idea to combine her two passions . . . It helps that one of my clients runs a print shop...
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Do you trust the occupants of a parked car to look before they fling a door open? And How wide does a car door open? But it’s not all one sided - sometimes I see riders doing things that are just plain asking for trouble. A good example of this is filtering through traffic -...
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There’s this old guy who swims every morning at Ashington pool, and rides his bike there every day, no matter what the weather. His bike is a beaten up bicycle shaped object, and can be found in various locations around Ashington & Newbigging by the Sea secured with a "chain" that wouldn’t defeat the...
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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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Politicians. Meh! I like to think that they’re all intelligent people, who despite the fact that I might not agree with them, they’re still well-intentioned, and trying to do their best to make a better world, or at least a better corner of the world for the people they represent. It’s probably my naïve sense of...
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