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Posted 14 January 2010 by Sheila Johnson
Monday 1 December. Buying and maintaining your next bike. Meet at Mediapoint, Chapter Arts, Canton at 7 p.m. With Christmas imminent, this month’s meeting will focus on advice for prospective bike buyers. Richard from Bike Shed will be talking us through the options for buying a new bike and the questions you should be asking your retailer. Andrew from Cycle Training Wales will run through the maintenance essentials to make sure it’s not a short-live Christmas thing. We’ll also be looking at the options for second-hand or recycled bike purchasing. Contact: Nick Canham 029 20222016.
Posted 26 November 2008 by Nick Canham
If there had been a surreal bike tour in the tourist information office to book, I don’t think that I could have ever experienced a better one. Just picture the scene: a beautiful Mediterranean day, a meeting place set between the ancient buildings that house the Catalan Government on one side of the square and the Barcelona City Council on the other. A group of over a dozen female lawyers from London turn up on a hen weekend and ask our guide, Francisco, if he knows where they can get a male stripper for the evening, as he is adjusting their saddles. He smiles and says that probably his brother in the shop will know - I sense that his brother often has the buck passed to him. (more…)
Posted 23 July 2008 by Paul Barrett
The opportunity to grill Cardiff’s local politicians over green transport drew a big crowd to Cardiff’s Norwegian Church on Monday 17 March. Councillors Delme Bowen (Plaid Cymru), Bob Derbyshire (Labour), and Mark Stephens (Liberal Democrats) shared a platform with Jake Griffiths (prospective Green candidate) and the evening’s chairperson Vinny Mott of Sustrans. (more…)
Posted 19 March 2008 by Nick Canham
Review by Tomas Barrett. In 1989 Cris Osbourne, a man with no previous experience in long-distance cycling, made a 15,000 mile solo bike ride from the Canadian border, down the Pacific coast through the US, Central and South America to Tierra del Fuego, an island situated at the most southernly part of Chile. The Odyssean journey lasted no less than two and a half years and would almost claim his life on several occasions, but sheer will power and a quixotic passion to reach his promised destination were enough to see him finish safely. He later went on to write the novel ‘A Gringo’s Journey’ recounting his humorous and often arduous experiences. (more…)
Posted 10 December 2007 by Tomas Llewelyn Barrett