Posted February 28th, 2007
Link.
An eco friend, frustrated by not being able to bike to work, is aided by her super-hero pup”
Treehugger is running a Convenient Truths video contest, the grab above is from one of the submissions. Hit the link to watch.
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Posted February 28th, 2007
I’ve posted a piece on a Descente ad over at Shut Up and Drink the Kool Aid, head on over an let the industry know what you think. Is the ad good, bad, effective, obvious, confronting or sending a negative message about the realities of cycling?
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Posted February 27th, 2007
So Jan Ullrich retires and moves on to a new phase in life.
On balance an amazing career, too bad about the ending. Like all riders of his generation he was doomed to compete during the Lance Armstrong era and as a result his career is filled with a long list of could have beens […]
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Posted February 27th, 2007
From the “Those who learn nothing from history are doomed to repeat it” files.
Shire will become car park unless F6 is built: NRMA.
SOUTHERN Sydney would continue to be strangled by endless traffic delays unless a controversial freeway was built through the Sutherland Shire, the NRMA has warned.
The association will today escalate its pre-election campaign for […]
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Posted February 25th, 2007
Don’t try this at home kids.
Three suspected Pakistani militants were blown to pieces by their explosives on Saturday when they rode over a bump on a bicycle outside a town in the central province of Punjab, police said.
“The head of one man has been blown off,” Deputy Superintendent Bashir Ahmed said from Chichawatni, a town […]
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Posted February 24th, 2007
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Posted February 23rd, 2007
As far as the issue of the week went, Pedaller had a very good day business wise. Pedapods make a good way to get around town when the Queens of the ocean come to visit and the punters come far and wide to gawk.
200,000 people came into the Sydney CBD on Tuesday to see the […]
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Posted February 23rd, 2007
Buses are the fare of skinny vegans.
It is the State Government’s duty to enable them to exercise that right. The Government should have foreseen the enormous interest that the ships would arouse and built enough freeways to Woolloomooloo to cope.
Why didn’t they? Which bureaucrats made the decisions? Mr Iemma should publish their addresses so that […]
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Posted February 22nd, 2007
Today’s Daily Telegraph tells us that if it’s good enough for Delhi, it is good enough for Sydney.
Premier Morris Iemma has had to look to the Indian subcontinent to find a solution to the CBD’s public transport problem – a fleet of standing room-only buses.
The Daily Telegraph has learned that a Circular Quay “cattle class” […]
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Posted February 22nd, 2007
Via Make:Blog
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