Well done to Mark Beaumont. Mark beat, by about three months or something, the Round the World cycle record. Now, and not to belittle Mark's Herculean endeavours, I had no idea that there even was a Round the World cycle record but now I know that it currently stands at 195 days and to achieve such a feet one must risk imprisonment and mugging amongst other bad and good experiences.

Sheldon Brown died this week. If you don't know who he is have a look at his website, I highly recommend it. This is a very old photo of the man himself riding a Raleigh Twenty, a bike which Sheldon seemed particularly keen on.



And here he is with his wife on their big day. I love this photograph.

My sympathy to his family and friends.

So, I've shown you some lovely foreign bikes but now we must get back to British and to start, I've this photo of an old Coventry Eagle. It's another old British name to have been swallowed up by the brand hungry Falcon Bikes. This is one that I spotted next to a stables in Glasgow and you can see from the sticker that it comes from the (emm) 'stable' of The Common Wheel.

Oh yeah, see that photo below of the xmas tree in the utility bike? Want to know how to get your tree in your bike??? watch..



missed!!!