Rabbits

Is it (a) legal (b) safe to cook and eat wild rabbits that have thrown themselves to their death under the wheels of your bicycle?
This is a hypothetical question, but only just - I had to brake quite hard for the one that changed its mind which way it was going to jump three times.

Ka, electric bikes.

The Ka's exhaust died last week, so Monday it went in for a replacement and the service I'd been trying to put off until the MOT was due (I had changed the oil). Vaguely starting to think about what we'll do when it dies - the rust on the door sills is only cosmetic now, but I suspect it won't last more than two years. By which time both boys will be at secondary school, so I won't be taking them to school before commuting.
I did call in on the electric bike people on Mill Road again recently ( Read more... )

. But while I'm nowhere near being able to cycle the whole way every day yet, I have done 1000 miles so far this year, according to what I've recorded on http://www.bikejournal.com.