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Byke Kultuur Never 
Issue 3, December 2000
Emergency, temporary issue. Last updated 21st November 2000.
Hey, Closed Road is still in business but Open Road went bust.
Not much for now, more than Open Road are putting out though, but more will follow in versions a, b, c etc.
- Some 'stolen' holiday photos
- Why Séamus King wasn't at Bike Right 6
- Bike Right 6
- News
- Upcoming Events
- Chain Links
These aren't links 'cos I've forgotten how to do them.
The BikeFix stand at SpokesFest.
The big, dozy, chuff doing the ET and drooling over bikes he can't afford is Closed Road's Editor-in-Chief.
On the river at Spokesfest, Séamus powering the Newt.
Michael Perkins in the red shirt in the front of the boat.
If viewing in B&W, the one in the grey shirt at the front.
Philip Stanbury having a go on the Speedmachine at the Open Road Try-Out Show.
Séamus arriving at
CycleFest on his Moulton APB.
PATHETIC EXCUSES
FOR SÉAMUS' NON ATTENDANCE AT BIKE RIGHT 6.
Select whichever you feel happiest with....
1. Disruption of rail services due to a landslide between Doncaster & York with the unreliability of alternative services provided.
2. I have a secret lover and I wish to spend more time alone with him/her* (delete as you feel appropriate,tee-hee).
3. I have had a leg amputated following an embarrassing accident.
4. I have contracted an embarrassing communicable disease.
5. My employer has, at last, noticed a pattern to my absenteeism over the last four Novembers and threatened me with dismissal should I be absent from work this month.
6. I don't really like cycling and hate you all anyway.
7. I am going to the Opera with a close personal 'friend'.
8. I was unwilling to undertake the two days in each direction bus journey using National Express & Stagecoach buses.
9. I wished to visit the Peak District to try out my new £70 (reduced from £130) boots and it's merely bad fortune that I chose this weekend to do it and couldn't you change your weekend instead of mine.
10. I have accidentally dyed my hair bright orange (it said chestnut on the box) and I don't want to be seen in public just yet
Bike Right 6.
As detailed above, I didn't get to
Bike Right this year but
my weekend was not entirely useless as on Saturday afternoon I went to Bakewell YH, ate the famous pudding, had a
whole roast chicken (99p) for tea and drank a few pints of overpriced but unimpresive beer before going to bed at half
ten.
On Sunday I went walking through the grounds of Chatsworth House then up, up to Curbar Edge. At first I was
tippy-toeing around the mud and puddles until I suddenly remembered that I was wearing;
(a) new boots with a
sophisticated in-built proofing system,
(b) a pair of waterproof Porelle-Dry socks and
(c) a pair of nylon gaiters.
After that I
sposhed through the mud and water with not a care. I had my snap; cheese sandwiches, an onion bhajee and a couple of
cups of tea from my steel flask before taking out a very relaxing half hour to fly my Pink & Purple(ooer) kite.
I reached
Fox House at 2:10 with enough time to finish off the flask of tea before catching the bus to Sheffield from whence I caught a bus
home to Maltby falling asleep on the journey home.
NEWS
- Open Road has gone into liquidation which has caused severe flooding in York.
- Sturmy-Archer, makers of hub gears since the beginning of the last century, have gone out of business following some very dodgy dealings by their new owners. It was feared that Brooks saddles would also be disappearing but fortunately this appears to not be the case.
- Ex-editor of Open Road's Bike Culture Quarterly, Peter Eland, has announced the launch of his own new cycling magazine, Velo Vision which will continue with the quality we have come to expect from his previous work. Closed Road wishes Peter all the best in this venture and a cheque has already been dispatched for a years subscription.
- On Your Bicycle is no more. It wasn't any good though so it won't be missed.
- Cycling Today, which originated as the Jim McGurn magazine New Cyclist, has also ceased trading. In the last issue an advertisement appeared asking if anyone would care to buy the title.
Upcoming Events
- August 18th & 19th 2001 A Cycling Odyssey organised by Steve Andrews will be on at Lancaster. A week later it's on at Kirk Newton near Wooler. This is a new venue in Northumberland close to the Scottish Border. If you were at NotCycleFest you'll know what to expect, a less formal version of CycleFest for the odd years.
- Following the success of the first Spokesfest, Roger and his gang have organised two events for 2001. There's the Duke of Rutland's Belvoir Camping Weekend on 19th & 20th May and the 'proper' Spokesfest 2001 on 27th-30th July.
Interesting Chain Links (honest).
- TheVelocita is an aluminium short wheel based recumbent and Michael Perkins has got one.
- Adam Hart Davies' Local Heroes isn 't on the telly now. This is his web link featuring his bicycles.
- An excellent, albeit very american online magazine, Bents Online is not what you'd think. It's about recumbents.
- Open Road (ceased trading) published the excellent cycling publications, Bike Culture Quarterly & Bycycle and Encycleopedia. Have a look while you still can, just don't send them any money.
- Everything you ever wanted to know about human powered vehicles on land, water or in the air can be found at the website of the International Human Power Vehicle Association.
- The British Human Power Club is for cyclists who feel the need for speed and I don't mean amphetamines.
- Editor of the BHPC, Dave Legs
Larrington has a good page on recumbents.
- One of the best cycling sites on the internet, Mike Hessey's Folding Society, covers pretty much everything there is to know about folding bicycles.
- Although it hasn't appeared for well over a year, Recumbent UK is allegedly still in business according to Richard Loke. I believe him, he's got such a nice smile.
- Ex-editor of Bike Culture Quarterly (see above), Peter Eland's, Pete's Pages feature his Russian recumbent tricycle as, his magnificent home-built-demountable-recumbent-tandem-tricycle and a big write-up on his Summer Tour which took in Spokesfest, Cyclefest and the Open Road Week in York.
- The Light Bicycle Infantry, (LBI) can use air droppable folding ATBs and Extreme Terrain Bikes (ETBs)....Weird macho US forces on bicycles, for real.
- A couple of photos of Séamus King's Peer Gynt recumbent bicycle.
- For hard men who need a Real Man's saddle.
- Not cycling, The Fell Club for lightweight camping.
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Last updated: 21st November 2000