The H2G2 Cycling Club
Created | Updated May 1, 2004
In celebration of the greatest invention in history, according to BBC Radio 4's Today programme: the bicycle!
Greetings, , and welcome to the clubhouse. Prop your bike up in the corner where a team of highly dedicated cycle fairies will polish and oil it (using only the highest quality Finish Line lubes), pull up a comfy chair and help yourself to a banana.
Footnote: I am very busy in RL at present and in any case spend more time on Usenet than here, so if anyone wants to take over this particular bit of the world, feel free.
Purpose of the Club
The purpose of the H2G2 cycling club is to meet and share information. If other hikers want to know bike-related things and don't posess a copy of Richard's Bicycle Book, they are welcome to trundle over here and ask. I'll also happily link any cycling-related entries here.
To this end I'm working up what I hope will become a collaborative entry on cycling. This should link to the articles on bicycle gearing, mountain bikes, touring bikes and so on. I hope.
Membership, rules, all that jazz
Membership is free, all welcome, from the occasional trundler to the True Cyclist®. Members of the Cyclists' Touring Club and League of American Wheelmen 1 are especially welcome, if only because it makes me feel less isolated to know that there are others out there who share my hobby.
I'm a cyclist!
Your name could be here...ShazzPRMESimon 11376 (that's a low researcher number!)DogManStarKrans J HopesonPetite-Dundee-Woman23Researcher 195718British_BulldogFritzOnlineSpikeVole, is rather laid-backPotholerHyWayManFlumpySproutMarijnNumber SixBorn Again CyclistRecumbentmanZarquon's Singing FishRavenbaitDogBadBlinding Light (presumably a Cateye Stadium 3)and1245 (what's that about I wonder)crazyaceHOtblack DesiatoAdvocatus Diaboli, for the sake of argumentKrasnojarsk, borrower of Holdsworths and Bob JacksonsMeMycelium is an underground member (obviously)
The rules are simple: no posting after dark without lights.
Cycling on H2G2
Entries are linked in alphabetical order, unless I cocked it up (in which case they will be when I fix it). I am scavenging the guide as I get spare minutes.
Edited Guide | |
| Bicycle Gearing | An entry by Ausnahmsweise which set me off on the whole bike-related entry thing, so has a lot to answer for. |
| Bicycle User Groups (BUGs) | Ravenbait's entry on bike user groups and how to make one happen at a workplace near you. |
| British Touring Bicycles | One of mine |
| Cycle Clothing | an entry in which Iinexplicably miss one essential item: gloves. |
| Eddy Mercx | Awesome cyclist, the name on some fine bicycles, and a trump card in any game of Famous Belgians. |
| How to fix a bicycle flat tyre | Practical guidance for the pneumatically challenged from jgr. Get Kevlar-belted tyres and read this entry less often! |
| Off-Road Bicycles | by Dudemeister, who is U53464 - I am U54363. I never noticed that before! |
| The New Forest, Hampshire | Favourite haunt of cyclists in the Southern UK, by the ever prolific Peregrin. Viva el presidente! |
| Tips on how to be planet-friendly | by half the researchers in the known Universe |
| Recommended | |
| Bicycle Lights | Who could possibly have written such an entry? |
| Commuting By Bicycle | Another one of mine. Sorry. |
| Others | |
| Cycle Lanes | A somewhat cynical "appreciation" by Zico |
| Cycling | by Maestairs |
| Cycling | Another imaginitvely titled entry, this one from Waz from Wayne's World |
| Cyclists, and why I hate them | By the misguided Kandyman - don't flame him, it'll only make him worse. |
| dangerous cycling path in berlin | A useful heads up from researcher 138284, whose continued absence is not, we hope, related in any way to the subject matter of this entry. |
| Ron Kitching | An incomplete homage to "Mr Cycling" who died last year. |
| Suffolk Cycling | A brief entry by Researcher 138730, who appears to have left the building (presumably to cycle round Suffolk) |
| Sustrans | The sustainable transport organisation, by s00z |
| The Future Is Laid Back | Comments on recumbency by Recumbentman |
| Tibet by $30 Bicycle | By Little Rich |
| Trailer Bikes | Another work in progress. |
Cycling elsewhere
Some interesting links:
The Cylists' Touring Club, Britain's oldest cycling organisation.
The League of American Bicyclists, formerly the League of American Wheelmen
www -dot- sustrans -dot- org -dot- uk - Sustrans (website currently 404, so has to be nobbled to prevent it being Moderated), the organisation for sustainable transport
The home page of Sheldon Brown, an authentic nutter
The home page of John Forester, which proves beyond doubt that when vested interests conflict with sanity in American politics, the vested interests always win
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