Archive for the 'Cycling' Category
Beam me up, Trek
I’m afflicted with bike lust, for this, the Trek District. I vowed long ago that the next bike I’d buy would be a drop handlebar road bike, because I’ve never enjoyed the riding position on my current Trek hybrid (a 7100FX, bottom of the range), but part of my discomfort I think is because my [...]
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I’m following the Olympics, of course, hoping for something exciting to happen, like a raised fist of protest, or a slogan scrawled on a teeshirt. So far there has only been a small war in Georgia, and a presidential resignation. To coin a paraphrase, the Olympics is a good seventeen days on which to bury [...]
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Tags: events, news, olympics, politics
“I’ve got something in my eye.”
It Could Happen to You is on tonight, one of my favourite films, and one that’s sure to bring a little tear to my eye, awash with sentiment as it is. It has Bridget Fonda in it. I’m fonda her myself.
But the real reason I have something in my eye is that yesterday on my [...]
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Walk this Way
“Nothing left to the imagination.”
It all dates back to when I hit puberty. I’ve been asked to clarify a certain matter concerning men’s undergarmentry, so here is a warning: what you are about to read may contain explicit reference to the male bollock.
I was svelte and fit and I could run and run and run. [...]
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The Beautiful Girls of Summer
“I seen a shooting star tonight, and I thought of you…”
THE DYLAN
The Perseids and me are old friends. I had an unforgettable night, back in the summer of 1983, when I lay on the deck of a cross-channel ferry and watched the show over the Bay of Biscay. Thanking my lucky stars that I was [...]
Filed under: Arrested Development, Bob Dylan, Cycling, France, Nostalgia, Travel, beer, countryside, friendship, happiness, secret girlfriends, summer | 2 Comments
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11 Reasons to Love Le Tour
I love the Tour de France, it’s my favourite televised sporting event, and the only reason one would ever watch ITV4. I only watch the one-hour highlights, mind: I’m not completely mad.
There are many things that make it ace. Here are eleven:
1. It’s surely the only professional sport during which spectators (and dogs) can (and [...]
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The Seven Deadly Sins of Rock
The BBC documentary series The Seven Ages of Rock was a great big load of old shit, as several correspondents have noticed. Did they think of the title first and then make the seven programmes, or did they make the programmes and then “brainstorm” the title? We’ll never know, or care. Needless to say, the [...]
Filed under: Beatles, Conspiracy Theories, Cycling, France, Music, Television, being chippy, media studies, motoring, sixties, summer | 7 Comments
Boing
Fittingly, this Easter weekend has felt properly spring-like. We’ve already had the first giant wasp of the year (in the bathroom, where they usually turn up, which is disturbing because it might mean they’re nesting in the loft again), the first giant bumblebee (in the conservatory), and I’ve even seen a giant Red Admiral butterfly. [...]
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Cramp as Kiss M’ass
[Please excuse me while I arse around with the template. It's only because I can.]
Today, I wish to talk about cramp. This is not something I have suffered from a lot in life. When I’m fit, I’m fit, and I guess my diet has just about the right balance of salts and fluids etc. So [...]
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Miscellany at Large
Here are a few searches (the others are fairly repetitive as these things go).
This first one is funny:
a place to heat unsigned artists – I think it’s fairly true to say that all artists are destined to go to hell, once they make their pact with the devil and sign for a major label.
blackberry picking [...]
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