There were three separate news stories on my Google homepage today, which give me some hope:
* The Guardian: Welcome to Modbury. Just don’t ask for a plastic bag - we don’t need to wait for big business and governments to do something, let’s just get on with it
* The Guardian: UN: we have […]
No posts for ages, as I’ve been snowed under with work.
Somehow this month is shaping up to be my worst month on the bike since I began recording my miles. It’s looking like I’ll have done 55 miles in the month despite brilliant weather, two weeks off work and an almost rideable new bike. […]
I had the BB and headset installed on the Solitude today, so I finally got to see it as a bike.
There’s no brakes yet, and the chain was on the freewheel side of the hub when I collected it from the bike shop, so I couldn’t ride all the way home, but I rode the […]
‘Many big ideas have struggled over the centuries to dominate the planet,’ begins the argument by Jonathon Porritt, government adviser and all-round environmental guru.
‘Fascism. Communism. Democracy. Religion. But only one has achieved total supremacy. Its compulsive attractions rob its followers of reason and good sense. It has created unsustainable inequalities and threatened to tear apart […]
(Originally published on Bike Darlington - The Darlington Cycling Campaign blog.)
Today we became a seven-bike family (four of them are mine). My wife got a free bike from her brother which has been sat in his garage for a couple of years. It fits her and is serviceable enough, although it’s not the best bike […]
I’m not going to be using bits from my Kona and Inbred to get the Solitude built up after all. On Saturday I put in an order for Sugino XD cranks, a Surly 36t chainring and some chaintugs to HubJub and for a Brooks saddle (black), a seatpost and some pedals to Chain Reaction.
I […]
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