Archive for January, 2007
Friday, January 26th, 2007
Westminster Council is still wrong
Here’s the full 30 min interview with Westminster City Council, after several people asked to hear the whole thing. You can watch online here: http://blip.tv/file/138164 Download the file here: BlipTV File Download
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Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
Westminster Council Parking Fees… is wrong
Wrong wrong wrong on so many levels. Here’s a video we shot for londonbikers.com Sign the petition here http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/FreeBikeParking/ and visit the campain website here http://www.free4bikers.org.uk/ It’s just stupid – bike bays are over subscribed, so build more, but to pay for them the council wants to charge us. How much would it actually cost? [...]
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Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
Hein Gericke Winter Gloves
These gloves have now served two winters with distinction. Not only have they kept my mitts warm and dry they’ve also managed to withstand the stupid amount of salt on the roads last year. The gloves are just £34.99 from any Hein Gericke shop – or their website – which makes them cheap enough to [...]
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Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
London Traffic
Is it me or are the roads really quiet at the moment? Since Christmas I’ve found myself coming down the A1 into London (rather than the M1). I used to ride down the A1 everyday from St Albans as that seemed most sensible, but it got so busy I switched to the wide, filter friendly, [...]
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Monday, January 15th, 2007
All day in the saddle
Getting ready for Russia is taking many different forms. At the moment it’s mainly taking the shape of sorting out the route, and that means lots of tea and coffee, with large quantities of biscuits. We’ve also scheduled in some ‘training’ days – basically just getting some miles under our belt together. On Saturday I [...]
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Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007
Guilty Pleasure
I know I bang on about bikers here in London not getting the whole riding through the winter thing, or at the very least complaining every time the temperature drops below 5 degrees, but I do have a confession to make. I’ve been off work for the best part of two weeks; during that time [...]
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Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007
Winter Riding in London
Having learnt to ride on a 1997 CZ 125 9 years ago in Caerphilly and Cardiff I have little sympathy for people moaning about the weather in London, and ‘winter riding’ in the capital of this great country. I’ll try to avoid this becoming ‘when I were a lad’ entry; but when I were a [...]
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Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007
16K Service
How hard can it be? A 16 year old with a diploma from the local collage can do it, that polish chap I met at Chiswick Honda can do it, so can I. In fact, I booked myself onto a Motorcycle Mechanics course at Merton Collage in South London (just to be safe) – I’m [...]
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Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007
New Garage
It’s finally here, my new house, and with it (most importantly) is my new garage! I was adamant from day one that this garage was going to be a shrine to my bike. A clean, healthy environment with a red painted floor, white walls a ‘clean’ workbench, a ‘dirty’ bench and a kettle – not [...]
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Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007
Brief Break
Yes I know it’s Christmas, and I know it’s the New Year, and yes I know the most important thing at a time like this is family, friends and home. But for some unknown reason I’ve really missed being connected to the net over the holiday period. I’ve moved you see, and this has lead [...]