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Sep17

Where am I?

I decided I’d get a jump on visiting our other office today. It’s in Skelmersdale - about 50 mins ride from home. At least, that’s what all the online maps told me.
Firstly, I missed a motorway turnoff. Anyone can do that, right? I got off at the next exit (I think it was the next, [...]

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Sep7

Born to - stay within the speed limit

Shot by Jon, one of the guys from work, while on the back of my bike. He said he wanted a joyride, and one of the other chaps wanted guitar strings. A ride into town followed. When I got back, he showed me what he’d done in the only bit of the journey that wasn’t [...]

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Sep6

I’m a Hippy, on a steel horse I ride….

Ok, here’s a pic. Click it for a bigger version.

Not taken by me, but one of the guys at work took it while the bike was parked in the building entrance.
Can’t park it there any more of course. Some kid with a stupid Aprilia “superbike” replica decided to send the angry bee he keeps captive [...]

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Aug16

Vrooom!

I have a new toy.
It’s not a very hippy one though (hippy hangs head in mock shame, concealing huge grin under hair).
After too many years waiting for the money, I have a bike again. Yay!
Not a hooooge one, but it’s 5 times bigger than my last bike, so I feel like it’s a step [...]

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About

The Hippy (aka Jim Evans) was born in 1973 and has spent most of his life pushing technology as far as it can go, then giving it another shove to make sure.

He works in a bank writing internal software, runs websites for the fun of it, and campaigns for Greenpeace in his spare time.

This is his blog.