London Cyclist

Well it finally happened, cycling through a red light, past bank tube stop on a cold summers day (it is England after all) I was caught by the police. Grabbing me as I cycled past P.C. I Have Had A Bad Day and I’m Going to Take it Out on You or whatever his name [...]

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I came across this brilliant post on surly blog recently and had to share it. It follows a cyclist who was been beeped at and decided to get them back by noting down their number plate and sending them a letter to the address registered to the number plate.
Read it at: Surly Blog

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There are some very silly cycling facilities out there, and with councils so desperate to appear cycle friendly hilarious outcomes such as this one occur. A good site with loads more of these is Cycle Facility of the Month.

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Occasionally you get abuse hurled at you while on a bicycle and other than the usual “f****ng p***k here are some good ones that people have heard:

Whilst riding past a guy one day who just smiled & said “Morning”….. he was crouched down at the side of trail having a dump at the time
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While cycling along and thinking about how annoying drivers are I also had a little think outside the box and thought about how we cyclists must annoy drivers:

Cycling in the middle of the road so they can’t get passed us
Leaning on their car while they are waiting at a traffic light
Cycling two abreast
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When not happily cycling away on your bicycle you might find the need to play stupid little games to pass the pass the time, so why not transfer your passion for cycling to the online gaming world! Here are a few games I came across on the internet , if you know a [...]

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Whilst Stumbling around the internet I came across this absolute gem of a link: http://www.biketree.com.
It’s pretty difficult to explain this so here’s a little gif animation of how it works:

Basically you pull up to this weird structure, swipe a card, put your bike onto it, get off your bike (don’t forget that part) and then [...]

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