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Number Thirteen in our series - New Year’s Day and wrapped up against the chill in the air: I was out walking Huge Dalmatian this morning to clear his hangover - poor chap, he really can’t take his drink. There were plenty of people out on bikes, but this lady was without doubt the most...
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Here in the North East, the Newcastle Cycling Campaign is gearing up to help the City Council get serious about a cycling network. The mantra you’ll most often hear is “Build it and they will come” when we speak about this sort of stuff. Experience from elsewhere in the world seems to validate this: Controversially though, I...
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First up, the winner of last week’s caption contest. We had some great entries, and it was really tough to pick a winner - in the end, we’ve decided to award joint first prizes to: Lee Kenney for, “Boris, cycling does not reduce your sperm count; ask my housekeeper.” Nigel for, “Here we have a ex-terminator...
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My favourite bike is always the one I’m riding. But for sheer game-changing versatility, the Brompton is a winner. Mine generally lives under my desk at work, and means that I can get around town visiting clients in my 5 x 6 mile patch of Northumberland without having to turn up dressed as Lycra...
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As usual, we begin by announcing the winner from last week’s competition. Some great entries, but sadly we only had one vacancy for a crash test dummy to fill. So after literally seconds of deliberation we’ve decided to award the prize to Mikael for his too-close-to-reality entry: Fox News: The American auto industry, in association with Nutcase...
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Remember, remember the fifth of November, gunpowder, treason and plot, I see no reason why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot. Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, ’twas his intent to blow up the King and the Parliament. Three score barrels of powder below, Poor old England to overthrow: By God’s providence he was catch’d With a dark lantern and burning match. Holloa boys, holloa boys, make...
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Number Twelve - Yearning For Denmark: We’re approaching that time of year again here - when the wind’s in the right direction, you can hear people speaking Danish; when a dog takes a pee against a lamp post in Copenhagen, there’s a definite tang in the air. This cyclist was looking out across the North Sea...
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Congratulations to everyone who entered last week’s contest - some “interesting entries” that we had real trouble picking a winner from. In the end Nathan was our winner with, “… so the rest of your class arrive in BMW’s… get over it…” …chosen for its irony, because as we all know, it’s the kids in the BMWs...
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First up, a “jolly well done” to all of you who posted entries to last week’s contest. The winner was Tlatet, with: The difference between cycling in England and the Netherlands is that English bond has two alternating courses of stretchers and headers, with the headers centered on the stretchers, and each alternate row vertically aligned. In...
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… a fairy dies. But sometimes such crimes are entirely justified in the name of taking this sort of horror story off the streets: Actually, I may not think much of Gavin’s style, but it’s his bike. So if you’re in and around Bristol, browsing Ebay, or whatever, and you see this bike please give him...
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