It was all fun and games until ONE GOT FAT

It's time for some bicycle safety lessons, sixties style. For those of you who don't know what "the sixties" were, it was a period of time so long ago that you could actually say things like "Slim knew that his big sack would be hard to handle" and it wouldn't arouse a dirty laugh from your audience.


Tinkerbell McDillingfiddy -- all girls looked like this in the 1960s


The video raises a serious dilemma -- the guys who don't follow the rules of the road die, but the one who does obey the rules gets fat. Eternity in a cold grave or a lifetime of being laughed at every time you take your shirt off? After some slight deliberation, we decided that we find death much more appealing than obesity.

We've certainly learned a valuable safety lesson from watching this: never go on a ride with some monkeys. Those guys won't even slow down if a steamroller flattens you. Right? Right.

Watch the video here, and be scarred for life in the process.


Some old updates that aren't entirely awful


And there'll be even more coming to this spot just as soon as we can be bothered trawling through our somewhat embarrassing archives.

Simon and Anthony


Nigel and company


Johnathan & friends, even though they're always last with the news and the website is horrible


Dutch cyclists we like because they're better/more attractive than British riders

Bobke Strut is so good that it deserves a category of its own

Arrr, bike pirates

George!

Things we hate so much we're not even going to link to them

  • Trust But Verify
  • Trek
  • Assos

Our e-mail inbox isn't just for Japanese gambling promotions and the latest advances in penis enlargement chemistry, you know

What's the word "derailed" got to do with bikes anyway?

  • Err... bikes have things called derailleurs? Apart from track bikes, which don't.

If derailleurs evolved from fixies, how come there are still fixies?

  • Survival of the fixest.


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