There are plenty of riding stories to bring you up to date on, during which hailstorms were a uniting feature, but before I get to that, there have been a good couple of weeks of bike news to wrap up.
There was news of grips which can be moulded to your hands, which I like as I'm sure it would make cold, hard-to-hold-onto grips more of a delight to clutch through the inevitable falling ice storms.
As the debate about riding the streets of London continues there was a futuristic design for cycleways in the sky that could solve the problems of sharing the roads. On the subject of riding in London I ended my commuting time before Christmas on a bit of a disappointment. Halfway home I felt that annoying squirming that means a flat. Was it on the heavier tyre I had been running for the winter and claimed to resist all punctures, or the older Conti front tyre, do you suppose. For anyone missing the ironic tone I can confirm it was the supposedly stronger tyre, breached by a small but sharp shard of glass on the wet roads. I can also confirm that a distance that seems a short ride, is a really long way trudging through the storms with wet feet.
None of which is very topical, so it's good that there was a New Years Eve story, in the shape of a proportion of the power in Times Square being supplied by pedal power.
Let's finish the news with this, and ask yourself whether you should always do everything that seems like a great idea in the pub?
Death Road base jump ... on a bike... movie - yes as stupid as it sounds. from Alistair Matthew on Vimeo.
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