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The beauty of variety

Leave a Comment Posted by on April 3, 2011

Switching between different bikes is a lovely reminder of the variety that is possible in cycling. I have a reasonable stable of bikes and they are all quite different from each other. Compare this to cars. Firstly, purchase cost. You can have a wide range of bikes (cargo, race, mtb, fixed gear, touring), in fact [...]

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Review: Hebie Chainglider on a Bullitt Cargobike

7 Comments Posted by on March 17, 2011

A while ago I wrote about my plans to fit a Hebie Chainglider to my Bullitt Clockwork cargobike. I confess it has not been without challenges. However, it is now fitted and working. Initial indications after about 100miles are that it looks like it will be doing the job I wanted. I am now able [...]

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Improved Cycling facilities: Birstall entrance to Watermead Park

2 Comments Posted by on January 27, 2011

Fantastic. A new entrance has been installed between Birstall and Watermewad Park (the entrance off Whites Lane). It is now passable by bike and even by my Bullitt cargobike. Not easily passable as the gap narrows to less than the width of my handlebars so it takes a bit of manhandling to get through. Still [...]

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Bullitt Cargobike Handling

3 Comments Posted by on January 4, 2011

When you ride a cargobike in the UK you gets lots of people commenting that they have never seen anything like it before. But the next comment or question is almost always related to “It must be difficult to ride”. I am started to get a bit worried about my cycling style (I don’t aspire to [...]

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Urgent changes to Leicester City Centre

2 Comments Posted by on November 16, 2010

Today I was in Leicester City Centre between about 4:30pm and 6:10pm. It was incredibly obvious that Leicester City Centre needs a transport revolution. For the whole of that time, traffic in the centre of the City was almost completely stationary. I walked from the Town Hall to Victoria Park and back, when ever I was on [...]

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Don’t forget to do the zip up

5 Comments Posted by on October 26, 2010

I felt a bit silly today. It was raining hard when I rode the 1/2 mile to Syston Methodist Church for the lunch club but I didn’t do the zip right up on my jacket. So I had a v-necked wet patch below my dog collar. Looked very silly and of course everyone noticed and [...]

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