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This morning on Play School the story was about a bicycle courier, he was riding a Gofa with a basket and had a GPS to show him where to go.
He even had a song 'riding along, singing my courier song, riding along, singing my song'.

My kids who love bikes really enjoyed the story and I guess it's introducing bikes to a lot of kids who may not have them in their house or see them day to day..... or are they just taking the cool out of the courier trend? - no fixies here! ;-)

So in our house I do night shift with the kids and DamianM usually does the early morning shift. Lately it's been good because he can catch up on any TdF footage that he'd been too tired for the night before. This morning I got up to see the three of them watching last night's stage and really talking about it, it's not the first time so I didn't think too much of it - Dad was explaining to Miles what was happening with the breakaway and who was in the peloton etc and Miles was lamenting that Ca… Continue

The Collectors on Friday night had a great piece on a collector of old bikes. He even has machinery from the 1800's that he uses to build replacement wheels. I wanted to record it for DamianM but was putting children to sleep and had hands full - I've tracked it down for everyone's viewing pleasure.

I think Susan might want to get him and his wife involved in the Tweed Ride next year :) I'm sure a few penny farthings would… Continue

An amusing collection of notes to bike thieves from passiveaggressivenotes.com

Bike rack comp in NYC brings out the funky art of Talking Head's David Byrne - check em out!

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