We saw God aka Sean drink a pint of Guinness after clearly saying eearlier that he didn’t do drugs, oops sorry beer. I wa shocked, but after he bought me a beer I let it slide.

Have you met him too? Share your thoughts. Meanwhile here’s a random photo.

Sean

We clocked a few firsts today. The first trip outdoors, the first ride on a bus and the first trip to a Supermarket, sheesh. What a day ;-)

I am officially the happiest man in the world. Watch this space for ocassional updates.

Cheers

Sean

I’ve been away so long Tony Blair was still PM. I’m sorry. There has been a lot going on in my life and its all taken priority over pretty much anything else.

You see in less than maybe as little as a fortnight I’ll be a Dad. I know! Me too.

On that passing of one age to another today was the last chance you’d be able top eat Gammon, Egg and Chips along with Apple Pie with Custard for as little as maybe £6. Yes, the New Piccadilly Café & Restaurant closed its doors as developers finally killed off originality on Denman Street. The café has been there since my own parents were barely kids and now its gone. With original fixtures & fittings as well cups and glasses it forever seemed to be holding back the passage of time.

Alas, today Lorenzo called it a day and quiet possibly had the busiest day in years. I went there maybe five times in total and of course wish I’d known about it earlier, but that’s life. I’ll miss it, as will all those others who made a pilgrimage through its doors today one last time. Ciao.

Now, to fatherhood….

Whatever you may feel about cyclists stupid enough to take something extra don’t let it put you off cycling as its you that’ll benefit and noone else.

Get out there and now the Sun is back, go out and enjoy your bike.

So close you can almost touch it. The world’s biggest free to view Sports event thats only beaten by the World Cup and the Olympics is in town this weekend. You can not afford to miss the Sports event of the year.

Forget about the doping stories and just revel in the sheer scale of the event and the circus that is Le Tour.

Enjoy.

Opening Ceremony – Friday 6 July 2007
Trafalgar Square will host a celebration of the 2007 Tour de France arriving in London. It’ll be free to partake, and Nelson’s Column should make an impressive backdrop for the planned events. More information about the Ceremony as we get it. Starts at 6pm

Prologue – Saturday 7 July 2007

To get a good spot as the Prologue twists through central London, be sure to get there very early. The actual race will be preceded by the publicity caravan, where you’ll be drowned with free products distributed by the many sponsors of the race.
# Caravan – 1pm
# Race Starts 3pm
# Race Ends – 6.20pm
Stage 1 – Sunday 8 July 2007

The caravan parade leaves the Mall at 8.40am. Riders will be signing on from 9.25am to 10.20am. The riders will then leave the Mall at 10.25am and there’s a ceremony at Tower Bridge at 10.45am. The race will then get properly underway when the riders reach Greenwich, opposite the Maritime Museum at 11am, in what is commonly referred to as the départ réel. The Tour director will announce the start of the race by waving a white flag from the official car.
Road Closures

There is no other sporting event like it, the worlds largest free to view spectator sport and only just behind the FIFA World Cup and the Olympics in terms of its global visibility. Come along and have the best weekend of cycling you may ever ever have.

Chapeau.

Text from LondonCycleSport

Quote:

Following our high-profile campaign, the Government has agreed to amend the Highway Code to improve cyclists’ safety and to encourage drivers to take more care around vulnerable road users.

In total over 40 rules in the Highway Code have been changed to the benefit of cyclists and will come into effect this summer. Read the announcement issued this morning by the Department for Transport’s here. On hearing the news, CTC Director, Kevin Mayne, said: “I am also delighted for CTC as an organisation, for our staff, members and supporters. This has been nearly two years work and a huge investment of our resources. We thought at several stages during the process we had achieved the outcomes we sought, but now we have an agreement we can work with. I am convinced that at the final stage of the process only CTC could have achieved this outcome with our focus, our knowledge, our ability to bring together the whole cycling movement and the respect we are given by government. Read more about the campaign and show your support for the change by signing our petition

So I think that means you can now sign this to signal your “chapeau” approval.

Sean

If you cycle or are sympathetic the cycling world, please take two
minutes to read this and sign the e-gov petition – which CTC thinks is well worth doing

Your right to ride on the road is in jeopardy. The revised Highway Code says cyclists should “use cycle facilities where possible”. If this Code is approved, cyclists will effectively lose the right to ride on the road where there are alternative routes or adjacent facilities.

The implications of this are too bad to contemplate. First we will
suffer more abuse and intimidating driving, as recently suffered by
a CTC member. Second, if a cyclist is involved in an accident and
tries to claim damages, the insurance companies are likely to argue
that the rider contributed to the accident by not using the cycle
facility.

The Highway Code has been laid before parliament. It will
automatically be approved unless it is referred to a House of
Commons Committee which cannot amend it and can only recommend the whole document be rejected.

It will take an unprecedented amount of adverse publicity to persuade the government to reject the Highway Code in its entirety.

The CTC HQ Campaign team are working hard to find some way of
achieving this and will obviously require national support.Meanwhile
HQ says it will do no harm to support the petition which is at

Roads4Bikes petitions

It is interesting to note that 35 MP’s objected to the original
revised wording. Unfortunately, the replacement wording is no better.

Only 11,000 objections were received to the previous wording. There
are over 50, 000 in the CTC alone who should now be objecting.

If this Highway Code is approved by government cyclists will
effectively lose the right to ride on the road where there are
alternative routes or adjacent facilities.

Please register your name on the petition and persuade others to do
the same.

Sean