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Could anything be better than the yellow brick road?

Cycling campaigns – improve city infrastructure and manure madness

28/04/2013by onthebummel Leave a comment

Like the proverbial bear I have been in hibernation, or in letago as my Italian chums would have it. However with this flagrant display of spring, which has witnessed the […]

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Fiorenzo Magni off on a break

The end of an era as “Il terzo uomo” leaves us

19/10/2012by onthebummel 2 Comments

Today I woke bubbling and full of beans at the prospect of my little journey on two wheels from London to Fontainebleau. The sky though grey, overcast and promising rain […]

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Bumbling, Cycling Trivia
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A race for (amateur) heroes: L’Eroica

08/10/2012by onthebummel 4 Comments

Photo gallery of L’Eroica 2012 via Corriere della Sera Hot damn this picture makes me happy. Not so much the struggling chap pushing his eager wheels up some gravelly Tuscan […]

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Bikes, Cycling Trivia
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Imagine if zebra crossings were like this…

03/10/2012by onthebummel Leave a comment

I forget where I found this picture, possibly the Torygraph maybe Private Eye (probably the latter) but it does make me chuckle, especially as the frantic pedaller is suit clad […]

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Dunwich

The three Cs: coffee, cycling and climbing

02/10/2012by onthebummel 2 Comments

  Each year it seems I attempt grander and more elaborate escapades by bicycle, usually limiting them to one lengthy (for me at least) exploit a year. Such pedalling ways […]

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Vic passing some biere (not vin) to his chums

Warm coffee on a cold ride

15/06/2012by onthebummel Leave a comment

Now when I go for a long old ride, or even a short one for that matter, there is one thing I never really feel the need to worry about, […]

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Bumbling, Cycling Trivia
Slovakian boys riding on a frozen dam

I don’t give a dam…

10/05/2012by onthebummel Leave a comment

…but I am in love with awful puns. I can’t remember when I first spotted this picture, but on this rather muggy morning ride in, I could not help but […]

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