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This seems a fun guy! A welcome piece of self-analysis.
We now need a psychiatric appraisal to explore the subjective relationships between this rider and his bikes. Was one intuitively protected? Afterall you don't trash your newest treasure, esp when it's cost you nearly 1000 quid. Or do you. Was ...

Rick, you'd be wasted on EasyRiders big time!
66.25/14.9 is likely not even a lifetimes achievement potentially for ERs.
40/10 gets the satisfied smiles out!

From this morning's paper:

Mario Who...Cipollini of course, has his own branded bikes at Earl's Court, including that £10,000+ modele. Says the man, just to sit on the bike, touch the saddle, will give you indescribable emotions.
Well, I can believe that.
Parting with £10,000 for a bike for me ...

I have 2 spare train tickets York to Kings X v.v. for this Sunday Oct 10, with cycle reservations both ways, leaving here 9.45am and returning on the 19.00 from King's X. Gets to York at 9pm, so you won't loose any sleep.
Tickets are part of a group of 6 travelling with friends and family discount ...

All round the Cockayne loop (Brandsdale) there are Road Closed signs, on account of a major landslip at the top of the valley. No need to turn back if you are happy shouldering your bike cyclocross-style up or down a dodgy and steep bit of hillside to get around the reconstruction work. The location ...

Just had an interesting story sent by Andy Vose of York Cycling City Team.

www.bikebiz.com/news under heading 'Road Tax Rebuttal Movement Gains Pace' gives details of a new campaign to nail the lie that cyclists are road free-loaders, as 'you're all road tax dodgers, so piss-off dick-----

The ...

Here seems a good case for naming and shaming! Too many expensive bike compoments just don't last!
Ones beginning with Shhhh.......are a case in point, wheels in particular. You expect eraser rubbers to wear with use, but £150 wheels in 3 months??? And putting wear indicator grooves just aims to ...

If we are going to have traditional winters, with snow and all that it makes sense to ride on traditional equipment. I found that on un-gritted roads the caked snow was very rideable and predictable on my folding super-lightweight multi-speed Dahon Mu bike, which has about 32mm grippy tyres in ...

Let's make it 3 for Etape du Tour:

Looking down from top of Ventoux across miles of sunlit blinding white moonscape after 2 hours of unrelieved darkest torture, then blue skies, distant hazy green-blue valley bottom, amazed feeling of 'How on earth did I get up here?'

Did Mr Wiggins enjoy the ...

When I did National Service we got extra leave if we gave blood. That will explain why I never wore my army boots out!
In spite of the fact that needles then were so blunt you had someone standing behind to hold you down when the needle received the upward thrust!
I believe they have improved a bit ...

This is an excellent plan.
Yesterday a select gruppetto of EasyRiders steered their bikes after a 10am start into the hills for the first time, and were rewarded with a very excellent long lunch at Castle Howard.
And this was not on your carbon or titanium 33 speed electronically shifted 15 ...

This is a crazy notion: go cycling in Holland and experience being a second class citizen as a cyclist!!!
Last September I crossed the country again, left to right, up and down, 400 miles, 90% on cycle only paths and it was fantastic!
Loads of club riders too!
I believe cycling casualties are less ...

In London last year there was a 25% increase in mortal casualties amongst cyclists. In total around 35!!!!
We must not be starry-eyed, and accept that most UK cities are HUGELY ill-designed for cycling, particularly with large numbers of car drivers of the Clarkson pursuasion. And even more are ...

Cliftonites who are fond of riding the Wolds will be delighted to hear that they can own their very own David Hockney!
It is his famous painting of Big Trees at Warter.
As a double page centre spread in today's Guardian.
Own a Hockney for just ONE pound!

David Hockney now lives in Bridlington, and ...

Well, what a laugh! Criminals never use cars, of course. Next the Department of Transport will be blamed for building roads, so helping criminals in their job!

Over 10 years or more at the University I had the same lame argument from the (then) so-called Security Manager, who opposed EVERY new path ...