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Country diary 1948: role of the bike in rural life (Grauniad)
The work of the farm labourer, ditcher, hedger, market gardener or teacher could not go on if it were not for the ordinary safety bicycle
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/13/country-diary-1948-role-...
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- chrisonatrike 5 min 54 sec ago
Recorded music? You're talking sheets of paper you can get played using musicians, right - not some kind of electronic reproduction?
- Off the back 0 sec ago
I thought they did this already? They used to state they did. ...
- OnYerBike 15 min 17 sec ago
Preaching to the choir here, but if cyclists aren't using the infrastructure provided, then it's probably not very good. Cyclists just want a...
- Jimmy Ray Will 22 min 34 sec ago
Whilst the jury (for me) is still out on motorcycle helmets, the use of seatbelts is, unfortunately, everyone's business....
- Steve K 47 min 40 sec ago
Do manufacturers still do "year" bikes in the same way as they used to? Pretty sure my mate/LBS owner told me they'd moved away from that model.
- Off the back 1 hour 4 min ago
Think you have your measurements the wrong way around. DA is around 2.3kg for R9170 and 105 R7020 is just under 2.7kg average - chainset and...
- hawkinspeter 1 hour 42 min ago
Probably something to do with it going up for sale: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jun/07/daily-telegraph-and-sunday-telegraph-newspapers...
- Rendel Harris 1 hour 53 min ago
A camera wouldn't have prevented the incident (though as an aside in my experience a sign showing you're carrying a camera can improve driver...
- Jogle 2 hours 5 min ago
That is about the only thing that they have done. Surely they should take away his driving licence too? If you can't remember crashing a car, you...
- Paul J 2 hours 27 min ago
More police is the only answer. Both on patrol in the community, and detectives investigating the thefts and shutting down the whole chain - from...