Tag: cycling

March tweets

More Czechs, Spike Jones, Brexit, burning Guy, Child Ballads, copyright, Robin Hood’s two pricks, and so on.

Tatraplan by Blahoslaw Rozboril & Josef Daňka at the Pražák Palace bit of the Moravian Gallery in Brno.

Collserola bike accident anecdotes

Here, by Alexis Rosell. I’ve never fallen off up there, although the back-pedal brakes on my subsequently stolen one-speed bike once caught fire coming down.
Cruikshank print of the Regent and Lady Hertford falling off a velocipede (1819, <a href='http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=1503538&partid=1&searchText=velocipede+accident&fromADBC=ad&toADBC=ad&titleSubject=on&physicalAttribute=on&numpages=10&images=on&orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx&currentPage=1'>British Museum).

West African joke about white people in snowstorms

The last time the issue came up, my dad rated Percy Shaw as one of the 20th century’s most under-appreciated inventors, on the grounds that his cat’s eye road studs have saved more lives on British roads than any other single measure. Ojos de gato or tachas reflectantes are not (widely) used on Spanish highways,…