This looks like a good book!!!
Image pinched from Matt Hurst's website
The Casual Cyclist’s Guide — Melbourne
Platform 3
Ed Wong – cycling enthusiast and patron of the arts
Filed under cycling …
Another cycling to work in Oxford cliché.
Here is the Sheldonian Theatre and part of the Bodleian Library, taken in Broad Street.
On the commute to work.
New College Lane
Godstow Lock.
A walk up the canal to Wolvercote and a wander back by the Thames with pleasant company. Narrow boat spotting in this pic but also some dingy racing at the sailing club. Very light winds meant that the boats weren’t going very fast.
I got back home and decided to drag my butt over Boars Hill on a short bike ride. The (only) good thing about slacking off from cycling is when you get back into it, the endorphin hit is great when you get home. However, you do feel like crap during the ride!
“Exenger” update…on course for the OED?
One way to stop an exenger
The most popular post on this blog is Coining a Phrase? “Exenger”. Since I haven’t checked since writing that post a couple of years ago, I decided to perform a search using a well known search engine to further chart the spread of the etymological phenomenon of the word “exenger”.
I discovered that thanks to the venerable Moving Target blog and its forum, the unstoppable march of the word exenger has moved onward, beyond the confines of MT and the London Fixed Gear and Single Speed Forum!!
Exhibit A – Flickr photos tagged with “exenger”. Admittedly, they are all photos of Bill, the Moving Target honcho.
Exhibit B – Andy at fyxomatosis.com has seen fit to use it as a noun on his fine site.
Exhibit C – The entertaining thatmessengerchick blog recently had a piece called “Exenger fantasies”
Exhibit D – Now that Messenger of Doom has hung up his pager, he often refers to himself and other ex-messengers as exengers.
Exhibit E – The Offical Dutch Cycle Messenger Championships 2010, allowed you to register as a “Messenger, Exenger, Realenger, Hipster or a Tricker”.
The next stop in exenger’s inexorable rise is surely the vault of rejected words at the Oxford English Dictionary…seeing as I live around the corner from OUP, I might just pop in and suggest it to them!
Stéphane is no longer a complete cycling noob
He’s got new clipless pedals and shoes, plus we finally removed the pie plate from his back wheel.
Next step, lycra shorts and/or a metric century.
