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8th September 2024 Joe Slater 1944 Comments

It takes a week to cycle from Penzance to Berwick. It took me 40 years. Because on the way, I wanted to include every town in England, in what amounted to some two years of [more…]

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Lycra clad Bonus Holes

23rd April 2024 well_chuffed 2253 Comments

We must all be painfully aware of the lycra clad Bonus Holes who ride about on our roads. There is an absolutely massive one who has a weekday morning show on Channel 5. One of [more…]

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How to fit convert an old pedal bike to electric

25th March 2024 Going Postal 2345 Comments

How to fit convert an old pedal bike to electric I’ve been keen on getting an electric bike for some time now. I used to do quite a bit of off-roading, but with advancing years, [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Fifteen

10th December 2023 Going Postal 2822 Comments

Monday It’s Monday again and it’s wet again. Everyone was watching football in the office yesterday; at times they had two games on at the same time (on different TVs!). I had trouble working out [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred And Seventy

4th December 2022 Going Postal 2903 Comments

Monday Good morning cat lovers, it was dry when I first woke up and ventured out into the cold, but gosh it’s wet now. A lovely peaceful weekend in Downing Street. I did almost nothing [more…]

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Three Men on a Bike, Part Four

2nd May 2022 Roger Ackroyd 5646 Comments

Two weeks after setting forth from Croydon we finally free-wheeled into St.Nazaire on the southern coast of Brittany, somewhat short of our initial target of St.Tropez. The tandem and single bike had survived various alarms [more…]

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Three Men on a Bike, Part Three

27th April 2022 Roger Ackroyd 2712 Comments

Having recovered from the ravages of what we thought was pilchard food poisoning but was more likely some dodgy Camembert, and rested sufficiently at the Rouen youth hostel we ventured forth on Day 5 and [more…]

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Three Men on a Bike, Part Two

13th April 2022 Roger Ackroyd 3212 Comments

You will recall that we three intrepid cyclists, Cough, Pat and my good self, had landed in Blangy sur Bresle, a small village on the border of Picardy and Normany on the second night of [more…]

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Three Men on a Bike, Part One

30th March 2022 Roger Ackroyd 3055 Comments

I suppose it must have been during the 1965 Easter break from the Sixth Form that Bogs, Cough, Pat and myself decided that during the summer months between the AS level exams and the start [more…]

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