Road Safety *yawn*
Yup, boring old road safety again. I wish there was some different cycling related content at the front of my mind – but if there is it’s overwhelmed by crap like this: Riding to work yesterday I...
View ArticleI take it all back (well at least some of it…)
Got a phone call this morning from Travis perkins. The actual guy I spoke to on the phone on Tuesday. He apologised for not getting back to me yesterday (whilst I sat and fumed) since he didn’t have...
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Banging our Heads Against a Brick Wall.
Caz comes home with yet more stories of being cut up, passed too close, generally treated like crap by motorists. In York, this self proclaimed ‘Cycling City’. And with a child on the back of her...
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UK Over-run With Lawlessness
Extraordinary scenes in the UK over the last few days. In towns and cities the length and breadth of the country there are people breaking the law, causing fear, destruction and even death on a massive...
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The Decline in Moral Standards.
I am not alone in thinking that driving standards continue to decline in this part of the world. Every local cyclist I talk to feels the same way. What’s going on? Caz thinks that part of the equation...
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Towards Oblivion
I’ve no desire to get political. This blog is supposed to be about cycling after all. But hey – one of the many reasons I ride a bike is because I give a hoot about the environment. I watched the BBCs...
View ArticleAaargh.
Not content with the recent wholesale destruction of my beloved SRAM i-Motion 3 coaster hub, today I outdid myself in the Doh! department. Riding my lovely new Contropedale with its recently installed...
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My Other Car is a Bicycle
The car came back at the weekend after a week away, borrowed by the inlaws. I drove it to work today, just as I drove it to work yesterday. The weather is pretty dismal at the moment, freezing rain...
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John Wayne
In the movie ‘The Shootist’, John Wayne’s character John Bernard Books famously says: “I won’t be wronged, I won’t be insulted, and I won’t be laid a hand on. I don’t do these things to other people...
View ArticleThe Tour de France
Am I the only person in the UK who isn’t apopleptic with delight at the prospect of a British winner of the TdF. For the first time in the Tour’s 107 yr history a Brit finished the race in The Yellow...
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