• Ride bike.
• Look at time, sprint home.
• Helmet off, shoes off, gloves off, jersey off, telly on.
• Slip on t-shirt from Urban Hunter specially acquired for the occasion.
• Hurriedly make ham and cheese baguette to the sound of the title music.
• Petite Biere Blonde.
• Repeat for three weeks.
Permanent Fixture
Sat, Jul 04, 2009 19:12
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Jo Burt has spent the majority of his life riding bikes, drawing bikes and writing about bikes. When he’s not scribbling pictures for the whole gamut of cycling media he writes words about them for road.cc and when he’s not doing either of those he’s pedaling. Then in whatever spare minutes there are in between he’s agonizing over getting his socks, cycling cap and bar-tape to coordinate just so. And is quietly disappointed that yours don’t He rides and races road bikes a bit, cyclo-cross bikes a lot and mountainbikes a fair bit too. Would rather be up a mountain.
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@chrisonabike Mercedes was acceptable, but the second one (old Toyota people carrier/ex-taxi) was a prosecutable offence.
Rendel Harris 6 hours ago
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@JamieT (a pedant writes) she's a London Assembly member, not an MP.
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2 thoughts on “Permanent Fixture”
anyone know where I can get
anyone know where I can get le tour theme music as a ringtone?!
By the way jo, I am going to be taking inspiration from your plans by purchasing baguettes, brie, ham and some french bierre.
looks like you can get the
looks like you can get the current one here.
although i found myself whistling the old theme music in the checkout queue in Tescos the other day