You can love your bike TOO much.

In possibly one of the most unusual stories of the year thus far, a man has been put on probation after being caught apparently having sex with his bike. He claimed it was a “misunderstanding after he had too much to drink” – it is not stated whether the misunderstanding was with the bicycle or with the cleaners who, to their great surprise, discovered the gentleman sans slip et pantaloons and in flagrante delicto.

Full story at the BBC here. It is also not stated whether the bike in the picture is the gentleman’s bike, I somehow doubt it, but it does have that element of furtive tabloid sleaze photography about it. What do you think?

I do love my bike, but I don’t LOVE my bike.

Caught by the Fuzz

There is a very interesting and enlightening entry at bikeforall.net about bicycling and The Law. It’s worth a read, if only so you can quote Section 72 of the Highways Act 1835.

http://www.bikeforall.net/content/cycling_and_the_law.php A fine bit of bicycling journalism and very useful, particularly as regards the offence of cycling furiously. Something I have been known to dabble in previously.

Getting quite fed up with not being healed enough to get on a bike yet.