h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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Re-reading one of my first offerings (now with added photo!) I would humbly request a change to the first footnote, which was inserted by the sub-ed to explain the word 'fairing'.

Instead of the rather pedestrian--

'An external metal or plastic structure added to increase streamlining on a high-performance vehicle, boat, or aircraft.' - The Concise Oxford Dictionary.

--could we have something like--

A smooth aerodynamic shell covering bike and rider.

--please?

Done

Thanks - we like to keep the Guide updated.

muchly

Ah, while we're at it: the first two links have expired

Pashley (link works but the company no longer make PDQs)

PDQ (link dead)

There are other sites showing pictures of the PDQ, but now we have a picture in the Entry, perhaps the best solution is to replace the entire bracketed passage

(such as the Pashley &nbsp;PDQ</LINK&gt

with

(such as the Pashley PDQ, pictured above)

I am glad that most other links still work, but one other is dead, the link to the letter from a bus driver to The Irish Times. The Times has a new website and they now charge for access to their archive. The beginning and gist of the letter however is visible here http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/letters/2001/0510/01051000105.html so perhaps that should be the link. So the code here goes:

Visibility
This is the source of most concern to the friends and well-wishers of a bent rider. You are shorter vertically, and to that extent less visible, on a recumbent. Experience shows, however, that laid-back cyclists attract infinitely more attention than they were used to in their upright days. This phenomenon will reduce with the increasing proportion of bents to uprights, whereupon they will merge into the haze of bike-blindnessA letter to the Irish Times from a bus driver claimed that only the minority of [Dublin] cyclists behave responsibly. The more you reflect on this the odder it starts to look. What does it take to be seen by a bus driver? Pirouettes? that all cyclists have come to expect from drivers.


(I put in the subheader and full paragraph for ease of locating and pasting)

Fixed!