Quotelets

... a Weight Watchers meal for one, and two and a half bottles of Baileys ...

Litespeed

Pro, Lite, Race, Speed, Carbon, Flex, Go, Motion, Rider, Pace, Line, Blade, Power. Pick any two and you'll have a cycling brand. Sometimes, for example, in winter I have RaceBlade guards on my Litespeed bike.

The list of acceptable words is currently a bit short, so to help manufacturers I suggest adding: "Middle Aged", "Tubby" and "Feckless"

A proper Citroen

I would occasionally see this wonderful old car motoring around the suburb where I live - and was astonished to eventually realise its owner lives but a stone's throw away.

Newspeak

Note that Easter is now to be referred to as "Chocolate Weekend". Likewise, at the end of the year we have "Present Day".

I didn't coin these phrases, but find their irreverence somehow appealing - so - here they are.

Changes

Now too small child's roller blade sacrificed in name of Brommie skate wheel conversion. No longer will I have to carry the bugger on the rough St Albans platform. It may wander about the train on its own a bit though.

Mystery no more.

Finally worked out what this is for.

Sicily Trip - Readers Digest Version

A cycling friend makes DVDs of our road trips.

I have just been given a copy of our 2009 Sicily trip video - it's most excellent, a perfect memento. It took quite some weeks to do and is appreciated by all.

The film is 20 mins long, acknowledges contributors, is in high quality, has a theme, narrative, structure, wit and some pretty cool music. I have *ruined* most of this in hacking a 5 min bloggable version to share with my blog readers. (Sorry Matt P - I hope this is not too heretical)

Anyhow - with thanks to Matt who made the original - here are me and my homies cycling, drinking & eating too much.

Sicily C2C 2009 from atc5k on Vimeo.