Polish Cycling Holiday

Thinking of a cycling holiday around Poland?

Probably not a good idea in light of this: Poland 'can jail drunk cyclists' from the BBC.

Face Plant Friday

Life is only funny until someone gets hurt...


Then it's hilarious!

Face Plant Friday

After the Cape Epic I need to give some thought as to whether I continue blogging about mountainbiking or whether I leave it alone. I just don't know yet.

Anyway, I thought I'd do a new item for the next two Fridays at least entitled 'Face Plant Friday'. The nema is (or at least should be) self-explanatory, but if not the pictures will clue you in.

I take no credit for the photos which have been 'leased' or stolen from other websites.




One of the joys of mountainbiking is the seemingly never ending supply of fools prepared to sacrifice themselves for the utter amusement of others. Bless them all. But especially their friends who were there to capture the moment on film!

Whilst this one on the left isn't quite a faceplant, you just know from the angle of the bike, the back wheel being in the air and the front wheel jammed on a rock that this is all going to end horribly.

Brilliant!

Velib' Freeride

As you'd expect from someone writing a Blog about cycling, I'm passionate about it in all its forms and truly believe that the bicycle is the way forward for the planet. So I was saddened to read the BBC article entitled: Thefts puncture Paris bike scheme which makes for tragic reading as the Velib' scheme is a cracking idea. Some pictures of the senseless destruction wrought upon these bikes can be seen on Le Parisien. One can only imagine what would happen if the scheme were started in London or here in South Africa.

Despite the sadness of such a great scheme being wrecked by the petty minded, the video below of these bikes being 'free-ridden' is quite amusing.

Now I'm Tempted

Having experienced a few punctures, particularly on the road bike and having been frustrated by how much effort is required to inflate a tyre up to 8Bar I decided to go for the CO2 Bomb route. It saves a lot of time and effort!

So I got the gadget home from the shop and had a flick through the instructions and came across the fantastic afterthought at the end of the caution: "(Don't be tempted to place your tongue on canister!)"

I really hadn't given the idea of placing my tongue on the canister any thought, but now the inner child is seriously tempted to give it a go. Thankfully, the 'outer adult' tells me this would be daft!

I wonder if I could sue Ryder for failing to tell me not to do it?