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TiGr: Titanium Lock as Cool as your Bike

Here’s another nice looking kickstarter project : the TiGr bike lock. The TiGr system includes a flexible Titanium bow and a compact, highly pick resistant lock cylinder. The TiGr bow has a protective coating to protect your bike and …

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Using Google Earth and Garmin Basecamp to plan bike and walking routes

There are a number of resources on the web that allow people to share GPS route information about mountain bike and trekking/walking routes. However, sometimes the route isn’t exactly what you want – perhaps you want to change the start, …

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London to Brighton by bike

As the sun was shining (and rain was forecast for the rest of the month) I had a look around for another interesting bike ride from London to somewhere – and not Epping forest this time! One of the top …

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Mountain biking close to London (City and East)

Using a bike around the city is probably one of the most dangerous methods of exercising you can do in the capital. Even with the introduction of the Cycle Super Highways, there’s nowhere that’s good from both an exercise and …

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Human powered coffee machines – and one you can carry in your bag..

coffee |ˈkôfē; ˈkäfē|

noun

1 a drink made from the roasted and ground beanlike seeds of a tropical shrub, served hot or iced : a cup of coffee | [as adj. ] a coffee pot.

There’s nothing like a good …

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Holiday season

Sticking with the mathematical theme, I’ve been looking for a safe holiday destination. Unfortunately, while watching a programme about Sharks on the Discovery channel an interesting statistic was thrown into the mix. Given that I’ve already been in a cage …

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