The second issue of The Ride, from avid cycling brothers Phillip and Andrew Diprose is a collection of sympathetically written journals from the cycling fraternity mated together with great illustrations and photography. What makes this a great book to own is that it is about the love for bicycles, cycling and how they become a significant part of our lives. There is no prejudice for what you ride, just a common love of riding. The Diprose brothers have put together another collectable edition that makes an inspiring bedtime read. I went along to the issue 2 launch party and hooked up with a bunch of likeminded souls who could talk about bikes forever and that sort of passion is beautifully delivered in this book.
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@GMBasix What drugs are being run? Are they more dangerous to people's health than tobacco or alcohol? If not, why are the police interfering?
@eburtthebike That'll have an entire squad of heavily armed cops descending on them within minutes.
@Rome73 "a resident’s consultation"... just the one resident?
As we know, active travel benefits economies and society in many ways which is often difficult to see in cold hard £ cash figures. Given the health benefits (less cost to the NHS), lower congestion and motorist delays, road maintenance etc can they factor those figures in to their budget? No? Why not?
@Paul J I like that idea. The TT is supposed to be just you against the clock, so standard bikes (e.g. the 'neutral service vehicle' bikes) and standard helmets and clothing would remove some variables and also make it a level playing field
Here's the image from the bag review that makes that a bit easier to understand.
The bag needs to have an 'upside-down pocket' that slides over the inverted U bar on the mount, so other (non-InLock) bags are not going to work.
Doesn't appear to attach near the dropout, but one of the three thingies is to attach it to a suitable point on a rack stay.
Maybe I'm being a bit thick here. So this is a side panel that attaches to your current rack and costs 25 quid per side? I assume it also attaches to the frame near the rear dropout but I could not see any details on this. Does it work with any panniers or just select Thule panniers?
@AidanR More cool, clearly looked at the course and thought it's a TT, the weight saving is going to be more important than braking. We know who beat whom!
3 thoughts on “The Ride Journal”
I bought Issue 2 as well –
I bought Issue 2 as well – it’s a thing of beauty, with some really good writing from across the spectrum of cycling.
My colleague Dave and I have
My colleague Dave and I have taken Ride into the lab and conducted a series of experiments.
In our first experiment we concluded that at £7 Ride represents excellent value set against a bike mag like C+ that’s about* £4 and has about a quarter of the information.
In a later experiment we measured the thickness of a copy and then compared that to a the thickness of a copy of Rouleur – £9. Our data suggests that Ride is twice as thick.
Next, we’re going to read it
*about – that’s a scientific term that is
I bought it on the back of a
I bought it on the back of a recommendation on the Singletrack forum. But I am saving it for my holidays so wont be able to review it until July.