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It only merits a sidebar inclusion on the BBC News website but that is understandable today. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34815867 Tom

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Here's another opportunity to see how our justice system views the lives of cyclists on our roads today. You can quickly get the gist of the story on the attached link but sentence has been deferred till January. My view is that the courts need to start getting tough with thuggish drivers who...

Hero? No, I think not. The subject of this piece of news from the BBC news website today is simply a moronic criminal who is still not prepared to enter adulthood at 42 years of age. Being grown up requires some personal responsibility in many things and not least, respect for other people...

I spent most of the day yesterday around central London though not on my bike. Always interested in what other cyclists are riding, I watched quite a few of them negotiating their way through traffic. Most were pretty good, I thought, pretty brave too, come to that! Unfortunately, there are...

According to the Dutch...... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34498871 .....and elsewhere, even if a little out of date: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28261140 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31643823 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28270990 Tom

.........you'd be pressed to find a cheaper ride-on mower: Tom

Full-page ad in today's Hebrew Times;), with a yawn-inducing description of its abilities. However, there's a 14-day free trial whereby you can test the machine and if not completely satisfied, you just call them and they'll collect it and provide a full refund. It's a single speed...

Well, now that I have seen this, I'll never again complain if I find myself out in the sticks when it's p'ing rain and I need to fix a flat....... Tom

Really! I'd like to watch and learn from the man who created that then. Here's the blurb: Mazda bicycle: Intended as an exercise in minimalism, the frame is hand-hammered from a single sheet of steel! Seat and stitching are inspired by new MX-5 interior. Here's the pic: Any questions...

As some of you will have no doubt read or seen, a cyclist in Blackpool was found guilty of riding dangerously on a pavement, as a result of which a little girl was quite seriously injured. Although it could be argued that the incident wasn't entirely the fault of the cyclist as the child's...

Those of us old enough, for example, to remember rationing and when we had a proper rail service over most of the UK, ought to remember bikes as used by butchers, bakers and the like, some of which survived in use till not so long ago. On a recent Danish trip, I happened across this extremely...

Just this morning at Bank, another female cyclist has been killed by a tipper lorry. How can the message get across to drivers and cyclists? Tom

......I can't see a motor anywhere on the bike: Tom

Cycling weekly, the highly regarded magazine for 'proper' cyclists, has chosen to produce a piece this week about the somewhat oddball one-hour trial which some readers of these pages know of. Here's a link to the article and contained in the piece, there's a couple of other links which provide...

I happened to notice this on eBay a little while ago and I can report, if it's of any help to anyone, that these Xion-powered PCs are gutsy with a surprising degree of hillclimbing ability, feeling very similar to crank-driven bikes in their power delivery. The quality of Kalkhoff frames is...

......then it's good enough for me! I don't know yet which kit to attach to it in order to get the best out of it but I'd want Schwalbe MPs on those rims! Tom;)

There are keen cyclists then are very.........well, there's these guys: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30838464

A friend and I decided to take an organized trip to Afghanistan to see for ourselves what the place is like. It didn't start well when the train we were travelling on broke down just on the north side of the capital. What a third world dump! Streets full of angry bearded types glaring at us and...

Inevitable perhaps? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-28867150 Tom