Posts Tagged ‘ Video ’

I go to Osijek in Croatia once a year to teach on a postgraduate programme. It’s a good gig that’s made even better by the hospitality and the places - generally travelling out and back via Zagreb, and Osijek itself has the feeling of a small university city with some great weather. Normally when I’m...
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The funny thing about riding my Frankenbike bakfiets, Mary Shelley is the reactions it gets. Slack-jawed amazement from drivers, intense excitement from shall children (who shout things like, “What a totally amazing bike!”. No, really.), and incredulous hilarity from teenagers - but ONLY when they’re with enough friends to see that they’ve such a cool...
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Some people say that riding a brakeless, 4m tall bike, in a crowd, along busy streets, amongst other motorised traffic isn’t the sort of thing we should be encouraging. What’s worse, there’s no helmet and no hi-viz. This is an accident waiting to happen! Well I say to these Health And Safety Pen Pushers that...
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That’s what people will tell you. And in some places it might be true. The trouble is that a flat country next to the sea will also tend to be windy: Give me hills instead of a headwind any day - at least with hills, you get a respite as you ride down the other...
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I’m always puzzled whenever I see someone riding a so-called “mountain bike” along the street. These things are frequently supermarket models, with frames made from girders, useless & heavy suspension, brakes & gear components made from Kraft cheese, and they all seem to be fitted with super-knobbly tyres. You can usually hear these bikes coming...
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Choose life. Choose driving. Choose congestion. Choose no fresh air and an ever-expanding waistline. Choose a f**king long commute, inhaling the exhaust from the car in front. Choose massive fuel bills that get bigger every year, HP, depreciation, and pointless bitching about road tax. Choose stress and swearing at other drivers. Choose enviously watching...
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My behaviour after you’d passed me this morning was not what I’d have hoped. I let the school down, I let other cyclists down, but most of all, I let myself down. I realise now that when you drove your Big Silver Audi past me as close as you could get, with the window down,...
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Lorries … and Taxis … and Buses Oh My! (So why do girls in britain stop cycling?)
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Remember the video of Martyn Ashton pulling some mad crazy stunts on a road bike? How about this via Cyclelicious suited company man doing the same on the Japanese mamachari “granny” bike. “Granny” bike… you mean like the Dutch omafiets? With a few modifications, this sort of silliness could probably get quite extreme… (turn up volume before...
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This is FAR cooler than the Lotus Esprit Submarine from the 1977 Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me: Go on - admit it. You know you want one!
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