travel
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Remembering my first bike tour, 30 years on
Note: most of the images illustrating this post are photos of projections of the 35mm slides…
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Training for London Edinburgh London 2025: lessons from LWL
This is the second in a series of posts about my training and preparation for the…
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Training and top tips for London Edinburgh London 2025: part 1
This is the first in a series of posts about my training and preparation for the…
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Are electric bikes cheating? No!
No, you’re not cheating if you ride an electric bike. The e-bike revolution is one of…
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Reputation ruined: Bruce Ismay and the Titanic disaster
Everyone’s heard of the loss of Titanic in April 1912, the world’s most famous peacetime shipping…
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AI regulation: a lesson from 200 years of railway history
A mighty transatlantic battle is in prospect over how to regulate artificial intelligence (AI). Donald Trump’s…
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Why London’s rail termini are so far from the centre
If you’ve arrived at London’s Kings Cross station in the rush hour only to endure a…
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Tips on completing the Rapha Festive 500
Prologue: my Festive 500 low point This was the moment when I cursed my decision to…
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‘Don’t tell him, Pike!’ Remembering Ian Lavender from Dad’s Army
Note: I published this blogpost a year ago, but accidentally unpublished it a couple of months…
