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Urban Riding Tips: Tip 5: Hang onto a tram
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Urban Riding Tips: Cycling the city. Tuesday, 28 June 2011. Tip 5: Hang onto a tram. Public transport is taxpayer funded. Even if you've cleverly engineered your financial circumstances to minimise income tax - by, say, becoming a video installation artist - you still pay tax. All those daily transactions involve a greasy government middle-man taking his GST. Every pair of Vans includes $10 that goes straight to the government. Every soy latte is another 35 cents jangling in the taxman's pockets. Tip 1 R...
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Urban Riding Tips: September 2011
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Urban Riding Tips: Cycling the city. Friday, 30 September 2011. Tip 83: Spit on yourself. The biology of saliva, phlegm and snot is clear to cyclists: Cycling makes them happen. (Tips et al, Nature, Vol 12, pp.1264-1289, 2011). The physics are a whole nother matter. Generations of cyclists remain mystified by why - when you spit out into all that fast moving air - it is so rarely whisked away, and so often splattered all over you. BONUS TIP: The sociology of phlegm splatter could be a whole journal.
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Urban Riding Tips: December 2011
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Urban Riding Tips: Cycling the city. Monday, 26 December 2011. The corporation behind the holding company to which Urban Riding Tips belongs have yielded to threats I will expose the nefariousness and moral bankruptcy of their other operations, and granted me a week's leave (without pay). Posting will resume on 2 January. Thanks for reading, and remember, if you ride over the break, ride fast and ride safe. Friday, 23 December 2011. Tip 148: Fall off while swinging your bike side to side. You can stand u...
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Urban Riding Tips: August 2011
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Urban Riding Tips: Cycling the city. Tuesday, 30 August 2011. Tip 56: iPhone and ride. When the phone pings in the pocket of your Rapha shants. You can try to let it sit. But the amount of time that messages sits unread, the more its potential importance grows. A callback on that audition? An article published in that zine? A game of dungeons and dragons about to start? Monday, 29 August 2011. Tip 55: Overtake someone who is trying their heart out. Eyes straight ahead, you do it. Opportunity to be hated ...
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Urban Riding Tips: Tip 186: Find a bike festival sprawling all over your normal cycling route
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Urban Riding Tips: Cycling the city. Friday, 17 February 2012. Tip 186: Find a bike festival sprawling all over your normal cycling route. See what they did there? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Tip 5: Hang onto a tram. Tip 13: Smack bad cars. Tip 21: Get overtaken by a faster cyclist. Tip 55: Overtake someone who is trying their heart out. Tip 71: Make a weird noise. Tip 126: Pedal Strike. Tip 186: Find a bike festival sprawling all over y. Tip 185: Allow an inopportune flat tyre to put you.
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Urban Riding Tips: November 2011
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Urban Riding Tips: Cycling the city. Wednesday, 30 November 2011. Tip 131: Right hook vs Left hook. When a car approaches in traffic, it may not be in solidarity as you #Occupy Bike Lane. What can seem an intimate gesture, as a couple of tonne of moulded metal, bucket seats and wing mirrors tries to snuggle up, can be quite the opposite. You've been right hooked. That's what cyclists call a left hook. BONUS TIP: You don't really need hand bones to ride a bike, so feel free to throw that hook nice and hard.
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Urban Riding Tips: Tip 13: Smack bad cars
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Urban Riding Tips: Cycling the city. Friday, 8 July 2011. Tip 13: Smack bad cars. Like you are a repressed English public schoolmaster and they are your delinquent pupils. BONUS TIP: There will not be detention for profanity. Cut loose. 10 July 2011 at 17:29. Thats funny. I noticed the bike first - saw it was a folder and had to look twice cos I thought that was me riding it! There arent that many folders in Melbourne and even fewer women on them! Ill try the tip! Http:/ www.culturecycle.org/? Tip 20: Th...
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Urban Riding Tips: March 2012
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Urban Riding Tips: Cycling the city. Monday, 26 March 2012. Sorry there's been no posts for a while. I had a three-week holiday, and stupidly told myself I'd be able to post while I was in another timezone, supposedly relaxing, no problems! Turns out that wasn't the case. I didn't get on the job when I got home either. There's been some time-consuming changes at home (got a dog! And at work (new role! Thanks for your patience! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Tip 5: Hang onto a tram. Tip 13: Smack bad cars.
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Urban Riding Tips: Tip 21: Get overtaken by a faster cyclist
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Urban Riding Tips: Cycling the city. Monday, 18 July 2011. Tip 21: Get overtaken by a faster cyclist. Getting overtaken is like milk - it comes in two forms. One cold and easy to digest, the other lumpy, sour and makes you choke. Type 1 is over before it began. Before you know a blur in your peripheral vision resolves into a lycra clad ghost that disappears over the horizon. You barely have time to register a pair of tightly defined calves moving like hairless metronomes before they're gone. Tip 30: Chan...
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Urban Riding Tips: Tip 126: Pedal strike
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Urban Riding Tips: Cycling the city. Wednesday, 23 November 2011. Tip 126: Pedal strike. Fixie riders know it best - you can't coast through the corner, you have to keep those crank arms moving like the Big Ben clock during a time travel sequence in some shit BBC sitcom the desperately underfunded ABC is using to fill the long boring hours between Bananas in Pajamas and Margaret and David. BONUS TIP: Assuming for a minute you've saved up for them nice metal pedals, you are in mortal peril. Evidently Myth...
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