Dropsafe

I went into London yesterday, and disembarked as usual at Waterloo; amongst the crowd I followed across the platform was a woman – perhaps late 20s/early 30s, wearing bovver-boots, jeans rolled-up to a romper stomper mid-calf, jacket, and an overly-severe dyed-black bob. Over her shoulder was a small plastic rucksack upon the flap of which

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I took the deckchair – 15 miles, bit of a shakedown run, comprising fast A-roads, unclassifieds, forest tracks, pothole-laden gravel roads, steep climbs, cycle paths and urban. The ride is quite bizzare – a synthesis of cycle, motorbike and car, with a moderate sensation of speed consequent to being only about four inches off the

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Pictures: [1] [2] [3] Story: [1] [2] Penguins galore. 😎

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flying deckchair … for thus it was named by Mike Smith – it has finally arrived, and has been assembled by dint of hard work, hard thinking and enormous amounts of education, help and advice from Chris Gerhard cyclist extraordinaire, and whom was only slightly put-out to find I apparently have a natural ability to

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Where have I heard this before? 😎

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I subscribe to the TheyWorkForYou RSS feed for my local MP – James Arbuthnot, Conservative MP for North East Hampshire – and it truly has been (and is) an enlightening experience. You drag-n-drop the RSS feed under “Recent Appearances in Parliament” and get an ongoing trickly of what your elected representative is up to –

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Evil. Amusing. http://www.cosmicrealms.com/coolness/movies/outpost_gerbils.avi From Bart.

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Go see today’s APOD: [antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov] – well worth it.

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I just took a look at the Inspired Cycle Engineering web page and it’s brill! Their “off the peg” Q, S and T range now folds-down and separates for easy transport: My XL is not going to be a folding bike, but then mine won’t need to be transported very often. In any respect this

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[www.livejournal.com]

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Remember these guys about whom I reported in January’05? Well it sounds like they got their series – AND that BMW-UK got to them, according to the inestimable Mike Werner It looks like the English BBC TV are getting ready for a food fight ! The USA has got Biker Billy {link} on his Harley,

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This is interesting in so many ways – the presumption, the commentary, that so many companies are embracing open-source, protectionist opportunities, the opportunities for conspiracy-theories… …in fact I suspect this will just end up being a big money-sink. Read it properly as [news.zdnet.com] where you get the benefit of the linkage Homeland Security helps secure

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