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Tag: bicycles

  • Trouble brewing at the village carnival's decorated-bike competition as, for perhaps the first time in history, a viking longship rams and boards an X-wing of the Rebel Alliance.

    Full image of A cardboard longship collides with an X wing in a grassy field.
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    A cardboard longship collides with an X wing in a grassy field.

    • Note
    • posted 4 July, 2026
  • A hand holds a palm-sized fragment of wood, painted purple as if once part of a fairy door.

    Found GCA6CCW Purple door

    This checkin to GCA6CCW Purple door reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. It's possible that cycling this path wasn't the wisest idea, I realised, as I dodged brambles on both sides. So focused was I on riding safely that I forgot which GPSr I'd brought with me and listening for …

    Read more (115 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GCA6CCW
    • posted 8 July, 2025
  • Dan, wearing a cycle helmet, throws a thumbs-up to the camera from a densely-wooded path.

    Found GCADCWF Treasure island

    After an appointment in Witney I opted to divert my cycle home to find this and the other cache on the same path.

    Read more (91 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GCADCWF
    • posted 8 July, 2025
  • Balance bikes are just better

    Sean McP justifies why balance bikes are better than stabilisers (training wheels) for kids to learn to cycle, and I ponder the possibility of popping the pedals off our youngest's first bike, perhaps later this year.

    Read more (268 words)

    • Repost
    • 2 comments
    • posted 24 November, 2024
  • Dan, holding a small geocache logbook. A bike and a road bridge can be seen in the background.

    Found GCAAD6C El pont sobre el riu #14 Set a La Pobla CΓ©rvoles

    I borrowed a bike from our hosts in el Vilosell so I could ride the rough hilltop trail to the bridge over the river Set, 3km away, and find a geocache.

    Read more (171 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GCAAD6C
    • posted 2 November, 2024
  • The Tour de France website lists the names of all hills using the French style...

    ...which looks awful with Yorkshire place names. Today's hardest ascent: "CΓ΄te de Buttertubs"

    Read more - about 1 minutes (14 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 6 July, 2014
  • Second Place

    I came second in the Cymru Prosper Wales "Enterprising Student" competition, which earned me Β£100, this morning. Pretty much made my late night and early morning worthwhile. Now I'm back at the office. Needed to come in this afternoon to deploy a new version of a piece of software to a client.

    Think I pissed Claire …

    Read more (182 words)

    • Article
    • posted 9 September, 2003

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