delicious thoughts for October 6th from 17:17 to 17:17:
- Recharge your iPhone on the move – This is neat. Dahon have brought out a recharging system based on a cycle dynamo to keep GPS functions working on the move.
Posts Tagged ‘cycling’
Latest delicious thoughts
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009Latest delicious thoughts
Thursday, May 7th, 2009delicious thoughts for May 6th from 15:00 to 15:23:
- Transport experiment slashes car use – Shows that the imaginative use of funding can make an impact on car use through the uptake of cycling. I hope York is able to at least match these initiatives with it’s recent funding
- Stink Digital : Work : Carousel – Spectacular frozen moment video (to promote Philips new 21:9 format display screens)
Latest delicious thoughts
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009delicious thoughts for May 4th from 12:55 to 22:29:
- BBC – BBC Radio 2 Programmes – Paul Jones, 04/05/2009 – I listened to this show driving to Southampton. Loved Taj Mahal and "The Healer" by Santana and Johnny Lee Hooker
- Bicycle helmet laws could do more harm than good – health – 27 April 2009 – New Scientist – The debate over Cycle Helmets continues – this is the latest contribution. Of course, if you already wear a cycle helmet this article is irrelevant because you are clearly not deterred from cycling by having to wear one.
Bookmarks for March 12th through March 13th
Saturday, March 14th, 2009These are my links for March 12th through March 13th:
- I’m angry – and I’ve waited 6 months to say this | Hugo Rifkind – Times Online – In some ways I agree with this article but it still gives cyclists a bad name. Just because others break the law it’s not an excuse for cyclists to take it into their own hands
- Faryl Smith’s official website – News, Biography, Music, Video, Images, Tour Dates, Forum and Mailing List – I’m not a fan of Britain’s Got Talent so I missed this amazing voice. 13 years old and singing the National Anthem at Twickenham this weekend.
- Greenbelt Talks – Going cheap
- iPhone 3.0 Software Preview Set for March 17 | Cult of Mac – So all the rumours start again – and then the whingers who don’t get what they want
- Apple ready for third generation of iPhone | Apple – CNET News – Ready for the next upgrade? Only if it brings cut and paste
After ride feel good
Friday, March 13th, 2009
Wigginton Village Store
I’d forgotten how much I enjoy cycling through those villages on the edge of York Haxby, Wigginton, Shipton and Skelton. This morning they were bathed in sunshine in a gentler world – just a few miles out of the city centre.
I was on new pedals – the ones that my also new cycling shoes clip into. By all accounts, falling off is not unusual on the first few rides because you forget to disengage your feet before stopping. I didn’t fall off – this time – and so I’m bathing in a little bit of after ride glory.
SPD cycling shoes and pedals
It was a short ride today – just 12 miles – but I must keep it up as the better weather approaches. There will be a fund a raising ride again this summer. My thoughts are towards the Coast to Coast, probably over three days. I just hope it doesn’t rain as it did last year in the Yorkshire Dales.
Harrogate Stray to be opened up to cyclists
Thursday, February 5th, 2009BBC NEWS | England | North Yorkshire | Stray to be opened up to cyclists
Harrogate Stray
So common sense has prevailed in Harrogate. Cyclists will soon be allowed to use a number of footpaths across this extensive area of grass that encompasses a good part of the town centre.
Some thanks must go to the Cyclists Touring Club for their high profile campaign
Good move.
Press button to change
Sunday, July 13th, 2008www.cyclingnews.com – fitness and training information
There are only 3 motivating factors that change human behavior; pain, fear or ambition. Which button do you want to press?
This is the last thought in a long technical article about fitness and cycling. Well worth a read – skip over the technical terms if you don’t know what they mean – there’s a lot in there about attitude to fitness and exercise that applies more widely to human life even if you never mount a bike.
The end of the road
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Originally uploaded by Dawnriser
Here’s the bike computer at the end of my ride. I’m back in
Grassington and completed 110 miles since leaving here yesterday. I’ve
also climbed the equivalent of two and a bit Ben Nevis’s.
I feel good and apart from the odd light shower it’s been fine from
Malham.
I must put in a word of thanks to my bike. Not a puncture or a squeak
all the way round.
Thank you everyone who donated to sponsor this ride on behalf of
Palestinian Young People coming to the Riding Lights Theatre Summer
School next month. There’s still time to donate. The site remains
active for some time yet. www.help.co.uk/ridingbike
Fine ride to Malham
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Originally uploaded by Dawnriser
Despite the cliff face out of Settle, the ride to Malham has to be one
of the highlights of this tour. No rain, a back wind and all that
limestone scenery. In the village a cream tea at this cafe.
Now I’m on the home run – about 15 miles to Grassington. Then home by
car.
Old naked man?
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Originally uploaded by Dawnriser
No not me discarding my wet cycling kit in public, just another tea
house along the way. I’m in Settle. The rain eased after Ingleton,
where I changed my inner layers of wet clothes for dry ones. At
Clapham I changed my socks and lined sodden trainers with plastic
bags. The outer layers had dried out by the time I reached Settle and
now – it’s raining again.
By my reckoning there’s another 30 miles left starting with a vertical
climb away from here!
Despite the weather I’m riding through spectacular country. Snipe and
lapwing screech in the fields, sheep scatter alarmed as a streak of
yellow flies past on a silver machine, and motorists make way with
sympathetic looks from the warmth of their cars. I’ve met only two
other cyclists today – both cheerful, both wet! Now I’m heading for
Malham.