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Oporto’s Burgers and Cycle Paths… Happy days…
I spend my working days between meeting rooms and my desk. My daily sanity check is riding to and from work. One of the side effects of riding approx 50km a day is that from time to time I get the munchies - usually as a result of not eating all that much the day [...]
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14Aug2008 | gj | 1 comment | Continued
Give Britney Spears a Bike…
I’ve followed with interest the emergence of Rock Racing over the past little while. Regardless of what you think of Michael Ball, he certainly knows how to go about promoting a brand. After all, the whole Rock Racing business is, in a significant part, geared towards promoting his Rock & Republic clothing brand.
This got me [...]
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12Aug2008 | gj | 1 comment | Continued
I miss the traffic…
If you’ve read this blog over the last week, you’d have read about my adventures trying to find a safer route for my daily commute to and from work. If not, you can play catchup here. I’ve put both ends of the journey together now so I’m riding to and from work mainly on bike [...]
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11Aug2008 | gj | 4 comments | Continued
Bike Porn Monday #9
Rather than compile endless editions of bikes, I’ve been thinking that every now and again I’ll focus on a specific category of gear and find great examples for your viewing pleasure. This week, I’ve taken a look at cycling clothing and some of my favourites. Here we go…
Jerseys, Jerseys and more Jerseys
I love nice cycling [...]
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11Aug2008 | gj | 5 comments | Continued
Bye Bye Berretto - Flash’s bike destroyed
For those who’ve read this blog over the past few months, you may recall a little writeup I did of meeting a few bike couriers in Martin Place - if not, you can read it here.
Anyhow, one of the couriers I chatted to was a guy called Flash. I bumped into Flash yesterday on my [...]
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9Aug2008 | gj | 0 comments | Continued
Leaving skin on the track - a lesson in track-craft
I was a very lazy child. With a relatively large blessing of natural talent in terms of intellect and athletic capability, I tended to make excuses rather than apply myself. Laziness turned to avoidance and I remember long periods of time off school with faked illness (I even ended up in hospital when I was [...]
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9Aug2008 | gj | 3 comments | Continued
Sydney Cycling Path - half a job done well…
I’ve got 4 kids. They, along with my wife are the love of my life. Here are my kids:
I ride a bike every day to get to work. I love cycling and my daily ride to and from work is the best therapy there is. Life is busy, I have a busy job and a [...]
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7Aug2008 | gj | 2 comments | Continued
People look stupid in cars…
I came across the following video on YouTube:
The video is actually titled “Cycling Sucks” and I’m pretty sure it’s been made by a bunch of Dutchies (my mom’s Dutch, but I still don’t entirely get Hollanders). The point seems to be to show how absurd people look when they do the things they do in [...]
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6Aug2008 | gj | 1 comment | Continued
Looking like a tosser is expensive…
Ok, I’ll admit it, I’ve got a bit of a thing for nice cycling gear. If you’ve never been to Rapha’s website, this is the sort of stuff I love:
Whilst I’d like to say this gear is gorgeous from first hand experience, I have to admit to having only touched it whilst it clothed the [...]
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6Aug2008 | gj | 5 comments | Continued
Bike Porn Monday #8
Firstly, apologies for not getting an edition out last week - a combination of a very busy work and home life meant that I just didn’t get around to collating enough to make it worthwhile. As a result, this is one mother of an edition - I hope you enjoy!
So, here we go again, and [...]
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4Aug2008 | gj | 2 comments | ContinuedLatest Reviews |
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