The Tricycle, take three
The Tricycle, take three
Three updates on the tricycle project, in this third essay on it.
The state of the Mosquito velomobile project
More thoughts on tricycles
More thoughts on tricycles
This post extends the ideas in my previous post Thoughts on bent cycles, which you should probably read.
Staying Alive
Staying Alive
Last month, I booked an appointment with the dentist.
What's surprising about that? Well, about three years ago, I decided that as I don't like dentists, and as my teeth — those that are left of them — are in reasonable condition, and as I wasn't planning to live much longer, I'd give up seeing the dentist. I thought, next time I get toothache, that'll be time for an early bath.
Thoughts on bent cycles
Thoughts on bent cycles
I'm getting old.
I've decided to give up my car, mainly for environmental and political reasons, but also for economy, so these days I'm largely dependent on bicycles for transport. In an environment with a lot of wet and windy weather especially in winter, I find that bad weather is a deterrent to cycling. Also, as I age, my balance is getting noticeably worse — I regularly fall. Thus far, it doesn't seem to affect me on a moving bicycle, but I particularly often fall when getting on and off bicycles.
On fuel wood
On fuel wood
We live in a burning world. As we record, there are record wildfires across the Americas, record temperatures around the world, falling oxygen levels in the oceans and however much supposedly renewable energy we produce, Jevons' Paradox means we keep on burning fossil fuels. This is not a great...
when you mill trees into structural timber to make buildings out of (as I'm doing at present with trees blown down in Storm Arwen) more than half the tree is 'waste'. In industrial sawmills, a great deal of that waste can be converted into oriented strand board...