I have done my fair share of cycling in the snow and snow storms where I couldn’t see further than 50 metres ahead. Quite often I had to stop to remove the snow out of the wheels and away from the brakes. The most “fun” to ride on is when there is one layer...
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Cycling in the snow
What a waste of a young life
A SCHOOLGIRL killed in an accident on her way home from school was riding a dangerous and unfit bicycle at the time, an inquest was told.
Sadly this is a terrible way to remind you, but do check you and your loved ones bicycles...
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Pot holes
So we managed a week or so of snow and icy roads here in London. Now comes the next menace to us cyclist.
Pot holes !!!
Just as the BBC article, Pothole and frozen pipe worries as ‘big freeze’ thaws, states …
“The cycle of freezing and...
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New York New York
I hope that I’m allowed a bit or artistic licensing from old blue eyes, and re-write his song New York, New York.
“If they can make it there, Then...
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37% of People Commute by Bike.
In Copenhagen there is 37% of all people commuting to and from school, work and universities. But when you add the journeys to and from the shops and cinema...
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Pump your lights
Yeah I know you might think I have lost it here, but now I do mean pump your light. As in charge your lights while pumping.
Now what a great...
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Cycle snacks
The Spanish inventor Pep Torres invented a cycle vending machine. Where you have to cycle to get a treat, e.g. you have to burn some calories before you can...
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Season to be merry
Since the bicycle is under the international Vienna Convention on Road Traffic (1968), a bicycle (or “cycle”, as referenced by the convention) is defined to be a vehicle and...
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Beauty and the Bike
Now this is a great project and a very uplifting short film, Beauty and the Bike.
If they can get teenage girls to start to cycle again in Darlington, why...
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LGV Cycle Safety – epetition response
Remember this epetition, ‘Cyclists THINK! Watch out for HGVs‘ (that I wrote about there, SillyCylist IV). I just got an email saying that the Prime Minister’s Office have...
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Pardo, a tricycle ?
Now this tricycle looks a bit mad in a good way.
Instead of pedalling you have to kick/push with your legs to get the trike to move forward. It...
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What are the odds ?
Humans really baffle me. If I were an betting man I wouldn’t put money on us lot passing our 30th year. And yet we quite often pass the average...
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