Bike thefts are pretty high and your bike is always vulnerable when you leave it while you nip into a shop or the bank. It’s even more vulnerable today than it may have been thirty years ago because people today have been brought up under the Thatcher doctrine of me me and me and look [...]
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I’ve just returned from a great week in Munster one of Europe’s most cycle friendly cities. I’m still sulking about having had my Blackberry stolen on the ferry but I’m slowly coming round to the fact that I will have to fork out a couple of hundred quid for another one, though it’s not the [...]
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Well I’m glad that someone has finally come up with a name for me. That’s a name for a middle-aged cyclist. Apparently we’re known as MAMIL (Middle Aged Men In Lycra) There’s been a huge growth in middle-aged men taking to the road on two wheels clad in lycra.
It’s all part of a midlife crisis [...]
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I’ve found through the course of my life that many of the old maxims are usually complete rubbish, cliques repeated without thought or analysis that when put under a spotlight turn out to be complete rubbish. Take for example the maxim that wisdom comes with age. Now this maybe true for many of us but [...]
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Should you or shouldn’t you? Is it worth it or pointless? I’m talking about cycling helmets of course. The debate goes on and on with some people swearing by them and others saying they are a waste of time.
This can cause confusion for the new cyclist so let’s clear up the argument. My personal opinion [...]
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