Tag: brompton

  • Trigger’s Broom

    There’s a great gag from an episode of Only Fools and Horses where street sweeper Trigger has been rewarded by his local council for using the same broom for 20 years. “This old broom has had 17 new heads and 14 new handles in its time.” This is actually an example of Theseus’s paradox, a…

  • Bike Cameras for my Brompton

    For some time now I’ve been thinking about putting a camera or cameras on my bike for my commute. While there was no single thing that tipped me over the edge, and I’ve been lucky to only have some rare incidents with other traffic, the ease with which you can fit cameras to bikes meant…

  • RideLondon

    A couple of weekends ago was the now annual RideLondon cycling festival in London. There are several strands to it, including: – FreeCycle – 10 miles of closed roads around central London for families in particular to pedal around – The Brompton World Championships – The RideLondon Grand Prix – Women’s professional circuit race –…