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Bo Diddley
Bo Diddley died monday 2 June in his own house in Florida due to a heartfailure. Years and years ago I first heard of Bo by listening to an Animals song called “the story of Bo Diddley”. That was the reason that I bought my first Bo Diddley LP (sort of ancient DVD 😉 )…
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Cycling the Dutch way …..
I made a short video in which you see just some cyclists on a bike path near a busy intersection in Vlissingen, the Netherlands. It was warm and sunny weather and because it was noon you see relatively more children. The way cyclists dress and behave is different compared to countries with less bicycle density.…
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new record bike ?
Barbara Buatois is trying a new bike, the l’Altair, which she will be using for a new speed record on 12 Juli. Francesco Russo tried the same in his machine last summer on the same track, the CERAM speedway about 40 kilometers near Paris in France.
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Big Boy’s Toy
My neighbour bought a new toy !
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Teeuwen is back !
Hans Teeuwen, a famous Dutch entertainer, has started his own TV-station on the internet. Only in Dutch. click here to watch his TV channel !
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wedding day !
On the same day that the president Yahya Jammeh of Gambia announced that all homosexuals who will not voluntarily leave the country will be beheaded, Frans and Rob had their wedding day. Frans & Rob ; congratulations ! You had a wonderful wedding day and I hope a long time ahead ! I made a…
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Good old cycling times.
When I first saw these videos, I had to laugh ! They show the British bicycle culture as it was way back in 1955. If you’re too old to die young, then you’ll go back in memory when seeing these two vid’s ……… Nowadays there are a lot of car-drivers in England who just hate…
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Dave Zabriski out of the Giro Italia !
I like Zabriski just for the fact he wears a mustache ! He fell during the second day in the Giro and had to be treated in a hospital. Hope he gets over it before the TdF starts …….
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$4 per gallon
Gasoline in the USA is cheap compared to European prices, but it rises!
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I had to remove the rear wheel
I had to remove the rear wheel of my quest, because I had to fix a hole in the wheel-chest. The hole was there because I had done too much stuff inside the quest, therefore the wheelchest was pushing against the bolt of the axle. The soft synthetic material wears out immediately and I hope…
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Fallus symbol
Someone said I was in my fallus-symbol, when he saw me waiting in my velomobile for the red traffic light. 😉
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TdF 2008
The “Tour de France” will be spectacular this year. All info can be found here .
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couch surfers !
We hosted three Belgian couch surfers last week-end.
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new brake pad
I had to renew the brake pads. It was necessary ! Left the new and right the old one …… There was this wonderful engine that came out of a Citoën HY …..
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We’ve got him ! (or her ?)
This mouse has lived for a few weeks in our shed, garden, camper and several other places we don’t like him/her to be …. My daughters forbade me to use a mouse-trap that would kill ……… so I bought this one. Now I will have to free him/her in a far away forest.