Strangely Perfect

Just for me and my mates as it was hard to find.  The race manual with timings, especially for Bridgwater on Stage 3! Map: View Larger Map Tour of Britain 2008 links: Main Page: http://www.tourofbritain.com/default.asp Media Centre (source of the pdf manual): http://www.tourofbritain.com/mediacentre_pages/media.asp the race teams news gallery blog sponsors history media centre results shop

Ironically, in the same week that it was announced that the Orgreave Coke Works site is to be redeveloped into a housing estate, Thatcher’s daughter, Carol, announced that her mother has dementia.  In Buddhist terms Thatcher is now in the hell of incessant suffering. Now, who is, “taking liberties”. Thatcher committed the sin, in 1984, [...]

With the recent (overwhelming) successes by our cyclists at this years Olympics, one would think that this would spur even more people to get on a bike, lose a bit of flab, save a bit of money or even aspire to higher things. For all those new starters, there are one or two obstacles to [...]

People are mad, Not Cyclists People Are Mad, Not Cyclists; Extra Information Following on from these two previous posts where I mentioned the laughable penalties for killing someone who happens to be riding a bike and the weasely excuses, I hate to say that it’s another case of I told you so… £500 fine and [...]

View Larger Map This little French town and various other places about are featured in this year’s (2008) Tour de France bike race. We had many pleasant times in the town a few years ago as well as Genouillac down the road where we had an excellent working person’s lunch in the restaurant there.  This [...]

Yey!  Check out the latest convenient and well designed cycling facility from the Warrington Cycle Campaign here.  It’s a gudyin! This is turning into a monthly thing.  Still, every little helps.

The highly informative Warrington Cycle Campaign has kindly provided information on the brilliantly secure cycle parking facilities on the Isle of Wight here.  It’s a bit of a departure from their normal observations as the usual subject matter is  bmx-style track design or bike-handling skills.

Today, a woman has been locked up for killing a cyclist by whacking into him in her red BMW 3 series while text-ing on her mobile phone. You know the saying that two drunks walking towards each other down the street never bump into each other – only the lamp-post? Well it’s not true. In [...]

Two comments on a recent CTC mailing. The death of Sheldon Brown and the aquittal of a Critical Mass Event person, arrested for obstruction of the highway with a “non-motor vehicle”. The post veers off on an entertaining rant about freedom of the individual and also Monty Python and the Lupin sketch. (Dennis Moore)

This is the text of a message I’ve posted to National Express this morning regarding a near squashing experience I endured in Bridgwater just after half nine this morning. Hi. I’ve been forced to use this system as there doesn’t appear to be a local telephone number to use. While cycling to work today, I [...]

Just got back on my bike after being a bit out of it for a while. So I’ve prompted myself to check out The Warrington Cycle Campaign site again. You’ve gotta laff or shoot yourself. This is November’s addition. I wish they were in Bridgwater. Cycling up and down Bristol Road in the dark is [...]

France, le ‘ome of le Tour isn’t really very cycle friendly. The only reason the country is so wonderful to cycle through is that it’s so empty in comparison to the UK, especially. Basically, they seem to be as daft as here in the UK. Now, in the towns they’ve managed to surpass themselves and [...]

Bridgwater Piss Poor Cycle Commute It continues to get harder to cycle down Bristol Road in Bridgwater. The evening queues start at the Chilton Trinity lights, up over the river, along Wylds Road and up Bristol Road past Express Park. A particularly dodgy bit is the right turn into Wylds Road where car drivers will [...]

Introduction This is taken from today’s CTC newsletter. I never thought it’d work! Especially in PARIS…  what do I know? !! Parisians embrace ‘freedom’ bike scheme Taxi drivers and other critics said that it would never work, but three weeks after Paris was sprinkled with 10,000 self-service bicycles, the ‘Velib’ scheme is proving a triumph [...]