Dave McCraw Archives: Short Asides
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8 February 2012
Cycling two bikes
My bike was at work, so I rode in on my hardtail, but couldn’t ride it back because it doesn’t have lights.
Carry Freedom to the rescue!
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15 January 2012
Road tax and “that which is unseen”
What your grandfathers grandfathers had to say about that most vexatious of issues… road tax!
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1 December 2011
Carradice Barley: bar bag
I happened to own a Carradice Barley saddlebag which is tantalisingly close to what a nice commuter / utility bar bag might resemble.
After a little bit of work, it has proven to be an excellent bar bag indeed. Details within!
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9 November 2011
PBP via Tweet
Paris-Brest-Paris, the pinnacle of amateur cyclesport, boiled down into forty-four text messages of at most 144 characters each. High points in green, low points in red.
Now this is a ride report that isn’t too hard to get stuck into! 
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16 August 2011
Paris-Brest-Paris: Kitlist
The following is an account of the stuff I took to Paris-Brest-Paris 2011, what went wrong, what went right, and general musing.
Originally I wrote this as a thought process for myself, but for the benefit of posterity I thought I’d publish it (and hey, 2015 will come around sooner than any of us expect!)
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14 July 2011
Raptobike – a novice’s perspective…
Way back in 2009 as a non-recumbent rider, I had a test run on this bizarre thing called a “Raptobike lowracer” courtesy of David Gardiner at Laid Back Bikes.
I wrote a forum post at the time which is free of any vested interest – it was just a test drive, I had no purchase to justify 
