Bike week

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I found out yesterday that this is Bike Week.

Hmmm.

Perhaps the publicity was less good than it might have been.

Guy
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May contain traces of irony. Contents liable to settle after posting.
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85% of helmet statistics are made up, 69% of them at CHS, Puget Sound

On 19 Jun, 13:30, "Just zis Guy, you know?" <u...@ftc.gov> wrote:
> I found out yesterday that this is Bike Week.
>
> Hmmm.
>
> Perhaps the publicity was less good than it might have been.
>
> Guy
> --
> May contain traces of irony.  Contents liable to settle after posting.http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk
>
> 85% of helmet statistics are made up, 69% of them at CHS, Puget Sound

Ah ha! There were two pages in my magazine all about it! That means
the LGBT community are well clued up.
(That said, I doubt it would have had much space if I hadn't been the
dpt editor! It was an easy two pages to write for me!)

"Just zis Guy, you know?" <uce@ftc.gov> wrote in message
news:m9kk54tfg910a6gvabacsfhacfhdl4mtdb@4ax.com...
>I found out yesterday that this is Bike Week.
>
> Hmmm.
>
> Perhaps the publicity was less good than it might have been.
>
> Guy
> --
> May contain traces of irony. Contents liable to settle after posting.
> http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk
>
> 85% of helmet statistics are made up, 69% of them at CHS, Puget Sound

Acouple of weeks ago we had something round at work - but nothing to remind
us.

Dave

On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:30:51 +0100, Just zis Guy, you know? wrote:

> I found out yesterday that this is Bike Week.
>
> Hmmm.
>
> Perhaps the publicity was less good than it might have been.

We had a not around work about it but it wasn't heavily promotoed in our
(small) office.

Some of our bigger offices are really going for it though with free
breakfast, lunchtime training/presentations.

peter

"Just zis Guy, you know?" <uce@ftc.gov> wrote in message
news:m9kk54tfg910a6gvabacsfhacfhdl4mtdb@4ax.com...
>I found out yesterday that this is Bike Week.
>
> Hmmm.
>
> Perhaps the publicity was less good than it might have been.
>
I cycled into Bradford from Shipley on Sunday to help launch the cycling
champion scheme and to mark the start of Bike Week. Around forty cyclists
pootled into Bradford to Centenary Square where there was a range of weird
and wonderful bikes for the public to play with and there were
representatives from the health trust and CTC to hnad out information.

Although I was too busy to organise something in school this week, I
distributed the details of local cycling activities to the 1000 pupils still
attending school. Next year I hope to have an in house activity or two
sorted. There were too many corporate 'in house' activities and mid day
activities which only our truants could attend.

In addition to the new cycling cities/town project I think that someone
missed a trick in not getting the Cycling Champions scheme tied in with the
aqnnouncements anther example of joined up thinking not taking place?

On 19/06/2008 13:30, Just zis Guy, you know? wrote:
> I found out yesterday that this is Bike Week.
>
> Hmmm.
>
> Perhaps the publicity was less good than it might have been.

DD brought home a Key Stage 1 cycling worksheet today. One of the
activities is a multi-choice quiz.

Question 1:
When riding a bike what should you always wear on your head?
a) A traffic cone
b) A helmet
c) Swimming goggles

Question 4:
What do you push with your feet to make the wheel go around?
a) Handle bar
b) Peddle
c) Crossbar

I decided it's not worth trying to make the point about helmets at this
stage. I have, however, used a red pen to cross out "Peddle" and write
in "Pedal".

--
Danny Colyer <http://www.redpedals.co.uk>
Reply address is valid, but that on my website is checked more often
"The plural of anecdote is not data" - Frank Kotsonis

On 2008-06-19, Just zis Guy, you know? <uce@ftc.gov> wrote:
> I found out yesterday that this is Bike Week.

This year is also International Year of the Potato.

> Perhaps the publicity was less good than it might have been.

So long as you rode a bike and ate some potatoes I reckon you're OK.

Just zis Guy, you know? <uce@ftc.gov> wrote:

> I found out yesterday that this is Bike Week.
>
> Hmmm.
>
> Perhaps the publicity was less good than it might have been.

I did see an advert for Bike Week in Stoke-on-Trent at the weekend, just
before I discovered that my bike either doesn't have the right gearing
(30/11-25) or it lacks the right calibre of cyclist for Mow Cop. Sadly,
I suspect the latter may be true.

I have been thinking this week that, with fuel now costing £70 or more a
tank, it's time to seriously consider commuting to work by train and
bike. It's £6 or so return by train but I may well cycle all the way
home sometimes. Wish me luck. Unless I bottle it, I'll be starting on
Monday.

Cheers,
Luke


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exile in Lancashire <http://www.shrimper.org.uk>

On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:45:34 -0500, Ben C <spamspam@spam.eggs> said
in <slrng5lhbi.5h6.spamspam@bowser.marioworld>:

>This year is also International Year of the Potato.
>> Perhaps the publicity was less good than it might have been.
>So long as you rode a bike and ate some potatoes I reckon you're OK.

I rode my bike while using SPuDs, does that count?

Guy
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85% of helmet statistics are made up, 69% of them at CHS, Puget Sound

On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:17:56 +0100,
notmyaddress.1.ekulnamsob@wronghead.com (Ekul Namsob) said in
<1iisyw1.17466k06cfctnN%notmyaddress.1.ekulnamsob@wronghead.com>:

>I discovered that my bike either doesn't have the right gearing
>(30/11-25) or it lacks the right calibre of cyclist for Mow Cop.

But did you look for the railway station? I always make a point of
looking for stations named in Slow Train. Kirby Muxloe, for
example.

Guy
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85% of helmet statistics are made up, 69% of them at CHS, Puget Sound

Response to Just zis Guy, you know?
> >This year is also International Year of the Potato.
> >> Perhaps the publicity was less good than it might have been.
> >So long as you rode a bike and ate some potatoes I reckon you're OK.
>
> I rode my bike while using SPuDs, does that count?


Dunno. Were you mashing?


--
Mark, UK
"The course of true anything never does run smooth."

Danny Colyer wrote:
> On 19/06/2008 13:30, Just zis Guy, you know? wrote:
>> I found out yesterday that this is Bike Week.

There does not seem to have been the usual adverts, however I did pass
about thirty odd people on the way to work on Saturday, participating in
a rat race. They were all wearing MFHs, so must have been boiling.


>> Hmmm.
>>
>> Perhaps the publicity was less good than it might have been.
>
> DD brought home a Key Stage 1 cycling worksheet today. One of the
> activities is a multi-choice quiz.
>
> Question 1:
> When riding a bike what should you always wear on your head?
> a) A traffic cone
> b) A helmet
> c) Swimming goggles

That's a good idea. In how weather sweat keeps running into my eyes and
makes them sting. Would a good pair of goggles help?

Just zis Guy, you know? <uce@ftc.gov> wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:17:56 +0100,
> notmyaddress.1.ekulnamsob@wronghead.com (Ekul Namsob) said in
> <1iisyw1.17466k06cfctnN%notmyaddress.1.ekulnamsob@wronghead.com>:
>
> >I discovered that my bike either doesn't have the right gearing
> >(30/11-25) or it lacks the right calibre of cyclist for Mow Cop.
>
> But did you look for the railway station? I always make a point of
> looking for stations named in Slow Train. Kirby Muxloe, for
> example.

I must admit that I gnu nothing of Slow Train until about two minutes
ago. Consequently, I never thought to look for the station. I did,
however, find the front door of the Cheshire View pub for that was
exactly the point on the road where the gradient became too great for my
feeble frame.

Sadly, the place was shut.

Cheers,
Luke


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Red Rose Ramblings, the diary of an Essex boy in
exile in Lancashire <http://www.shrimper.org.uk>

Martin <martin.dann@virgin.net> writes:

> That's a good idea. In how weather sweat keeps running into my eyes
> and makes them sting. Would a good pair of goggles help?

Taking the helmet off would probably help more, if you wear one. Heat
loss through the head can be upwards of 100W during exercise ,
slapping a thick insulator on it is not going to help matter any.

I find that the pads on the forehead tend to soak up perspiration and
then drip, which is never pleasant.


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1938732

-dan

Mark McNeill wrote:
> Response to Just zis Guy, you know?
>>> This year is also International Year of the Potato.
>>>> Perhaps the publicity was less good than it might have been.
>>> So long as you rode a bike and ate some potatoes I reckon you're OK.
>> I rode my bike while using SPuDs, does that count?
>
>
> Dunno. Were you mashing?
>
Was it a stage in the Dauphinoise Libere?

--
JimP
^->

"Ben C" <spamspam@spam.eggs> wrote
> This year is also International Year of the Potato.
>
>> Perhaps the publicity was less good than it might have been.

Last week was national shed week* and I missed that too :-(

(*According to some web site selling sheds)

Danny Colyer wrote:
> DD brought home a Key Stage 1 cycling worksheet today. One of the
> activities is a multi-choice quiz.
> Question 1:
> When riding a bike what should you always wear on your head?
> a) A traffic cone
> b) A helmet
> c) Swimming goggles

Did you note who produced it, so that they can be avoided?

Colin McKenzie

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No-one has ever proved that cycle helmets make cycling any safer at
the population level, and anyway cycling is about as safe per mile as
walking.
Make an informed choice - visit www.cyclehelmets.org.

"Jim Price" <d1version@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:g3epm1$612$1@aioe.org...
> Mark McNeill wrote:
>> Response to Just zis Guy, you know?
>>>> This year is also International Year of the Potato.
>>>>> Perhaps the publicity was less good than it might have been.
>>>> So long as you rode a bike and ate some potatoes I reckon you're OK.
>>> I rode my bike while using SPuDs, does that count?
>>
>>
>> Dunno. Were you mashing?
>>
> Was it a stage in the Dauphinoise Libere?
>
> --

You may have noticed in an earlier thread that a troll appeared with some
serious chips on her shoulders, but most cyclists here managed to give her a
roasting!

On 20/06/2008 09:12, Colin McKenzie wrote:
> Danny Colyer wrote:
>> DD brought home a Key Stage 1 cycling worksheet today. One of the
>> activities is a multi-choice quiz.
>> Question 1:
>> When riding a bike what should you always wear on your head?
>> a) A traffic cone
>> b) A helmet
>> c) Swimming goggles
>
> Did you note who produced it, so that they can be avoided?

No organisation appears to claim responsibility. It's not
professionally printed, it's just come off of a normal office printer.
I'd guess that it was knocked together by a teacher at the school, if
not for the fact that it has a space for the child to write the name of
his school:
http://www.redpedals.co.uk/temp/z-oyb1.jpg (side 1, with the quiz)
http://www.redpedals.co.uk/temp/z-oyb2.jpg (a picture to colour in)

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Danny Colyer <http://www.redpedals.co.uk>
Reply address is valid, but that on my website is checked more often
"The plural of anecdote is not data" - Frank Kotsonis

On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Danny Colyer <danny_colyer@hotmail.com> wrote:

> http://www.redpedals.co.uk/temp/z-oyb1.jpg (side 1, with the quiz)

Ooh. Couple of tough questions there - where _is_ the chain on that
bike?

regards, Ian SMith
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