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By mrfergieman January 16, 2021January 16, 2021 Just bike stuff

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It’s obvious that when riding a bicycle, you experience the things around you a lot more intimately than you ever would in a car or motorcycle. You get chance to see, smell and hear stuff at a speed which creates many micro-experiences. For example, when I’m cycling in North Yorkshire,

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By mrfergieman December 26, 2020December 29, 2020 Just bike stuff

Absolutely Trashed! and The Broken Windows Theory

Recently, I read an inspirational and interesting article in one of my favourite mountain bike (MTB) magazines, CRANKED (see link at bottom of page). It was about an organisation called Trash Free Trails (TFT), who have set about the task in the UK of collecting and reducing the amount of

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By mrfergieman December 16, 2020December 29, 2020 Just bike stuff

86!

The reason this post is entitled 86 is not because it’s the country telephone code for China, nor is it because 86 is the atomic number of Radon, and neither is it because there are 86 metals on the modern Periodic Tables. No. To date, I have hammered out 86

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By mrfergieman September 21, 2020December 29, 2020 Just bike stuff

Do you buy ‘quirky’ or ‘mainstream’ things?

When the offerings that the cycling world present to us have a high level of sameness, it forces designers to do something different, something out of the box, something perceived as a bit weird at first sight, or even a bit quirky. Quirky is a strange English word that means

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By mrfergieman August 29, 2020December 29, 2020 Just bike stuff

August. Weird times indeed.

Apparently, the word August is derived from the Latin word augere, meaning “to increase,” and it is also the basis for the Latin name, Augustus, which means “esteemed” or “venerable”, and was a title given to Roman emperors. Anyway, right now, it’s August, and the end of it to be

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By mrfergieman July 16, 2020December 29, 2020 Just bike stuff

Life as a Projecteer

I must admit that I’m a bit of a ‘Projecteer’. This is a new term that I’ve dreamed up to illustrate people like me who always have a project on the go, have a few in the pipeline and at the same time, on the look out for another suitable

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By mrfergieman June 28, 2020December 29, 2020 Just bike stuff

The Rose and Forks

I know the title of this post sounds like a pub, and maybe there is one in the world somewhere proudly bearing this name. However, it’s not what I intended. That pink rose in the featured image is named after the famous horticulturalist and garden designer, Gertrude Jekyll. It has

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By mrfergieman May 25, 2020December 29, 2020 Just bike stuff

Very boring cycling things

Whilst I’m always inspired by what people do, create and experience in the cycling world, there are a number of things, seven specifically, that are really boring in my view. I know that what is boring for one person can be very interesting to another, but still, there’s some stuff

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By mrfergieman May 10, 2020December 29, 2020 Just bike stuff

Epic rides and your relationships with the bikes you did them on.

I’ve got this theory. If you think about the best two bikes that you’ve ever owned, and you have to choose one as the best, it won’t necessarily be the bike with the highest level of capability or highest cost that wins. This theory is not dedicated to the hard

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By mrfergieman April 19, 2020December 29, 2020 Just bike stuff

Global Velo Culture & Time for Tea

Our cycling community, on-line social media and off-line, has some real bike-snobs in it. I ride the track, road, touring, Time Trials, MTB, eMTB, vintage stuff, and the occasional odd-curiosity bike, so I think I’m pretty representative of all parts of the cycling community. However, we do have some serious

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By mrfergieman February 26, 2021February 26, 2021 Interesting Interviews

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