Posts Tagged ‘ photo ’

Since watching this Magnatom video on Quickrelease.tv earlier, … I’ve been thinking about the whole point of transport. I mean, really, the full on existential, what’s-it-all-about stuff: “The trouble with most forms of transport, he thought, is basically one of them not being worth the bother. On Earth - when there had been an Earth, before...
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Most of my various pannier bags, saddle bags, or other bicycle luggage have at least one patch on them somewhere. Just the nature of their job means that something always ends up rubbing a hole in them at some time - a stray bolt head that was well clear of the fabric before the...
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Friday again, and time for our caption contest. First though - the winner of last week’s competition was Jim Davis, who correctly identified that, “‘…..don’t be so silly. The bears wouldn’t set a trap like this…….’” is the perfect caption. It made me laugh, because I’ve been toying with the idea of getting a huge...
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Congratulations to Townmouse who won last week’s caption contest with her entry, ‘Unfortunately, Britain’s roads simply aren’t wide enough to accommodate separate bike infrastructure’. If only it were funny . . . Anyway - sticking with the nature theme, we have this photo for our competition this week: This week’s contest winner wins a bumper pack of...
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Congratulations to Jim Davis, the winner of last week’s competition, who identified the correct response when stopped by the police for riding a machine-gun Fredded bike, as, “Oh, I’m just borrowing the bike from Charlie Sheen”. His prize of sunburnt going to seed on a recumbent is even now being delivered to Down South by Royal Mail...
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Talking to the receptionist at a client’s office yesterday, I was astonished to find that she couldn’t ride a bike. When she was young, she’d lived on a main road, so her parents had never let her have a bike. And now, 40 years later, she’d love to, but despite her best efforts, just...
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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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This week’s competition features a photo I took last week. It’s a section of National Cycle Network Route 1, between Ashington and Blyth , that now features an attractive and cycle friendly sculpture, which leaves a massive 25% of the original cycle path still available for two-way cycle traffic: The question for you is...
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Hands up who’s ever felt that riding up That Hill is your own little personal foretaste of hell? Here’s your chance to get even - just enter a caption for this photo, and you could win this week’s fabulous prize, that’s even more fun than riding up a mountain in July: A week on a...
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Ordinarily, I’d ask you to keep it clean. But this photo is just begging for some Carry On innuendo. Best caption this week wins your choice of either Kelly Brook or Boris Johnson for a night of unbridled passion. In your dreams. Innit.
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