Category Archives: travel

Big weekend.

Posted on Monday, 19 May, 2008 by Jeremy

Well that was a big weekend. I drove down to my parents place and back, got lots of things done but it really takes it out of you for work the next day. Seeing my father rekindles my desire to take photos.  

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My mountain bike

Posted on Thursday, 31 January, 2008 by Jeremy

I haven’t seriously ridden my mountain bike since I got back from Asia last year. This is a tremendous shame because I really enjoy riding and my health was really improving as the weight dropped. I hope to get back into it soon. This photo is from 2007 where I had let my friend Daniel ride my bike down a tricky bit of hill to try it out and when he stopped the bike stood perfectly balanced for around 5 minutes. I managed to take a few photos before it fell over.

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Be Wonderful!

Posted on Thursday, 29 November, 2007 by Jeremy
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A near miss

Posted on Sunday, 25 November, 2007 by Jeremy

I was impressed by the large number of people in China who despite the cheap local petrol (which was probably still expensive to someone on an average wage) had chosen an electric bicycle in order to encompass their entire transportation needs. It has to be said though that whilst it had pedals for assistance and shop owners had powerboards for people to plug their bikes into whilst they shopped – the machines didn’t seem to keep up with traffic and were used mostly as bicycles that didn’t require pedalling and were used in the bicycle lanes. When I saw my first electric bicycles and scooters I had visions of people adding batteries with higher capacities and output coupled with high efficiency brushless motors so they could tear around the streets on their eco-friendly racing machines, but in reality none of … Continue reading →

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