Posts Tagged ‘ videos ’

There’s no doubt about it, the car industry is very successful at marketing. It sells us a dream of driving along the open road… The Dream: The Reality: The Alternate Reality (do watch this one ’till the end!): They tell us about the sporty playfulness to be had in towns and cities: The Dream: The Reality: The Alternate Reality: The tell...
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… to accommodate the size of monster lorry that we have now, let alone the 44 tonne ones proposed. Apparently, “…in 1962, the maximum lorry weight allowed on our roads was 24 tonnes. Over the succeeding 40 years the size and weight has risen inexorably to 32 tonnes, 38 tonnes, 40 tonnes, and now 44...
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Remember the problem with the saddle on my Pashley? One of the rear coil springs on it’s Brooks B33 Saddle had broken, and the people at Brooks offered to either repair the saddle for me, or send me a new set of springs so I could do it myself . . . Well today,...
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I learned a new phrase last Friday from Radio 4’s Today Programme: Cognitive polyphasia. It means the ability to think about the same issue in contradictory terms. Allow me to illustrate . . . The schools go back next week, so you can expect more of this: … and a whole lot of this: You can’t blame...
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