Posts Tagged ‘ photos ’

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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Next weekend is the Dunwich Dynamo - 120 or so miles overnight from That London to Dunwich on the Suffolk coast. This year, one of our friends from university, Dr Strangelove is coming for the first time. He’s been asking all sorts of questions about what to bring, as well as making the usual joke...
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I couldn’t believe it - I’d got to the end of the bike, 20 minutes ahead of schedule! The Family were waiting to see me coming into the paddock and then into the transition tent to ditch the bike shoes and slip on my trainers for that short run - I was just 26.2...
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Gulp! The day before the Ironman, and I woke up early. An ideal opportunity to cycle into Nice and have a look at the start of the swim course at its start time. The sea looked flat (which was good) and very, very big (which was less good). No marker buoys yet in position, so...
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This via BikeSnob NYC & Gizmag: Apparently it’s called a Manta Saddle , and spreads your load over a wider area, which reduces the pressure. Or something like that anyway. I’m really not so sure that I’ll be using one anytime soon . . . though if you have tried it out, let us know...
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Today at the age of 40, I had a whole new experience - having my legs shaved. Like in the above picture, I had it done at a local barbers - The Barbers2, which one of my clients in Newbiggin-by-the Sea . Edwina (yes, she’s a lady barber) had agreed to help me out...
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Daughter was eying up Wife’s new bike a couple of weeks ago, and eventually confessed to having had a bit of a sit on it too. She needs a new bike, and we were thinking of something trendy & cruiser-ish, but it turns out that she’s really quite keen on the idea of a...
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One of the chapters from Beauty And The Bike that really got me was the section titled, "It’s The Infrastructure, Stupid" , in a parody (or according to Wikipedia, a snowclone - there’s a new phrase) of Bill Clinton’s campaign slogan thing from 1992. Frankly, I think the phrase could be rearranged to...
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