Byke Kultuur Never

Issue 5, May 2001
Last updated 24th May 2004



AN ONGOING CONSTRUCTION....

Problems with our server means I've lost all my bookmarks so this is a handy place to put them for now.

We may be getting some new PC's so I've modified this site again to include some new things just for me really.

This page created and maintained (badly & infrequently) by Séamus D. King.
It's about days until we break up for the Summer Holiday 2003. I think.
Some favourite links...

• A Report on the BBC website about Science and Lab Technicians.
  
  
• Your shiny new email account at your place of employ is not very secure. Password is MM thingy.
  
  
• My email account at Yahoo, mustn't forget this. Password?
  
  
• Pete Eland's Velovision is updated most days.
  Sometimes the 'official' page is down so try http://www.eland.uklinux.net/ as an alternative.
  Or his Discussion Forum is fairly interesting sometimes.
  
  
• Summat new cyclists.org.uk user Seamus, password is that dog thing.
  
  
• Scott Munn's page Bikereader
  
  
• The House of Commons Select Committee Report on School Science.
  
  
• The ASE's website builder website builder . Username techie, password is that dog thing.
  http://www.scishop.org/sitebuilder/techie/index.html
  
  
• 3 day weather forecast for Yorkshire http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/datafiles/RYPMS.html .
  
  
• A useful recumbent shop, http://www.ligfietsshop.nl/ ....in Nederland.
  
  
• A useful recumbent shop, http://www.recumbent-bicycle-accessories.com/ ....in USA.
  
  
• How exciting, Requisition Form online.
  
  
• The /www.bentrideronline.com 2002 Buyers Guide.
  
  
• Big search engine http://Alltheweb.com list.
  
  
• BBC news http://news.bbc.co.uk/default.stm has an excellent web search engine.
  
  
• Challenge Recumbents Dealers list.
  
  
• Current object of my lust M5 20/20 liegfietsen.
  
  
• Challenge have introduced a new model, the Mistral liegfietsen.
  
  
• For all your recumbent needs, Elan Liegfietsen just a pity they're in Nijmegan.
  
  
• Top waterproofing people, Nikwax have an online quiz where you can win prizes. They also make excellent waterproofing and cleaning stuff. Recommended
  If you log onto their site mention that Seamus King recommended it to you and I’ll eventually get a freebie.
  
  
• The Folding Society
  
  
• Special characters in HTML could be useful
  
  
• Scitech's Lab Technicians Discussion Group provides a useful debate forum for school science technicians.Your usual password does the trick.
  
  
• The Scitech Forums provide a valuable resource to support science technicians working in schools. Password as above.
  
  
• The biggest resource on Cycling Films on the 'net.
  
  
• The ASE Page appears to have improved a lot since I last used it.
  
  
• My once favourite website, Lonely Planet TTYC, mindless debate forum for LOOSERS!!! FACT!!!.
  They also have a cycling forum, the unimaginatively named On Your Bike.
  Save time and go straight to it's Search Page.
  
  
• Useful site from the Ordnance Survey with maps including free downloads.
  
  Some slightly-less-difficult-to-understand astronomy guff Star Child. Appalling name, some very childish piccies but it's not bad.
  
  
• The#DD0000"> Philip Harris online catalogue. It sucks!
  
  
• The Science Year webpage.
  
  
• A work related page I set up... Quick Science with links to stuff for pupils work.
  
  
• The only decent site about datalogging, Roger Frost's Dataloggerama has a quirky, independant stance.
  
  
• The boring John Mian website.
  His Bulletin Board is at http://pub34.ezboard.com/bmcse200067298 Catchy name. Fifi Trixiebell, usual password
  
  
• The fifi_trixiebell email account at catholic.org. Password is the bank number.
  
  
• Sometimes when the TTYC is broken we take a trip over to the Lonely Planet France discussions page.
  
  
• Hmmm, Recumbent UK with downloadable versions of issues 1,2,3,4,5,5,5 and 8 though it's supposed to feature 6 and 7 too.
  
  
• Oh look. It's Harry's Page for bolt-on recumbents.
  
  
• Big camping shop, CCC in Sheffield where I buy a lot of kit.
  
  
• Mail order camping shop, Singers Outdoors that I use a lot has a s-l-o-w loading page.
  
  
• My favourite search engine at the moment is Google .
  I even found most of the versions of Byke Kultuur Never on it.
  
  
• The Magna Project at Templeborough where they used to make steel.
  
  
• The Physics Multimedia Studio is a collection of GIF animations and accompanying explanations of major physics concepts.
  
  
• Another site which ought to be good BikeMagic.com is instead ridiculously slow and clunky.
  
  
• A tale of a cycle-tour, in Biketrip Holland-Germany perhaps useful for Summer 2002.
  
  
• The HPV Fun website is spoiled by the careless use of frames. The page is set up so that on my small monitor about half the window is the top frame with the fracky logo. This leaves half the window to view the photos and text. Not very clever.
  So, if you want to get shut of that view, click on HPV Fun, no frames instead.
  
  
• British tent manufacturer Robert Saunders .
  
  
• The Outdoors Co-op where I didn't buy my Hilleberg tent after waiting a very long time
  
  
• Looked at Friends Reunited but there's only Padraig O'Connor on it. Where's Nigel Hicks?
  
  
• Yet another place for travel and maybe mindless discussion, the Rough Guide is more unweildy than the Thorn Tree.
  
  
• Recently in the news because they dared tell the truth about Britain, Lonely Planet have a pretty good online guide to complement and update their books.
  
  
• Pretty much everything about Recumbents. A decidedly American site. Lots of excellent links.
  
  
• Dead magazine Recumbent Cycling Online GB promised much when it appeared in 2001. The first issue was pretty good,the second was dire and it's not been seen since.
  
  
• This is a handy Recumbent Database.
  It's a searchable database of recumbents and features piccies and info on loads of different makes as well as contact info and links to manufacturers websites.
  
  
• Cycling Plus is one of the best cycling magazines. The website features, amongst other things, a pacey bulletin board accessible from a link on the top of the page.
  
  
• Freewheeling Forum is an 'online community' by Scott Munn/Sam walker, the BikeReader man (who bumped Byke Kultuur off his links page, grr). OK, it's yet another cycling forum.
  
  
• About the single most useful webguide to cycle touring, Trento Bike Pages. Anyone planning a tour of Europe is sure to find useful info here.
  
  
• A useful looking guide to Cycling in Germany.
  The Baltic Coast Route looks promising.
  
  
• The CTC ought to have a good site with loads of useful technical and touring info unfortunately they haven't.
  Instead they have an unweildy mess; slow to load, ineffective or dead links, a log-in system that only sometimes works, fails to include most of the data sheets available but worst of all opening whole frames within frames within frames.
  Whoever set up the site should be beaten up. They deserve it.
  
  
• The Folding Society News used to be an excellent, regularly updated site but work commitments have forced editor Mike Hessey to wind things down. This is issue 79. For other issues, use this link but change the number.
  
  
• Bike Biz at... Bicycle Business is the industry's link to what's happening but you'll need a username and password to access the site 'cos it's trade only. Doh!
  
  
• Because he's got a sensible Mac instead of a rubbish PC, Carlton has now set up this useful Bicycle Business pdf library. You need to use a password which is Carlton's usual password.
  
  
• The Rough Stuff Fellowship is for cyclists who take their cycling off road, mainly on touring bikes.
  I thought it was going to be something else quite different!
  
  
• P & O North Sea Ferries , Hull to Zeebrugge and Rotterdam.
  
  
• Another ferry operator DFDS Seaways , with sailings from Harwich and Newcastle.
  
  
• Rotherham Borough Council Job Vacancies , not that I want to leave here, it's so nice
  
  
• Here's something Yahoo Geocities , Those nice people who provided me with this space.
  
  
• Free JavaScripts provided by The JavaScript Source
  
  
• Something to do with Harry Potter.
  
  
• The patron saint of the internet is... Saint Isidore of Seville.
  
  

Tacky I know but an easy way of seeing if the internet connection is really working or if it's just looking at local files.

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Previous & current editions of Byke Kultuur Never...

• Click on
  http://uk.geocities.com/bykekultuur/never.html
  to go directly to the latest issue of BKN.
  
  
• Issue 12, May 2002.
  Summery stuff.
  
  
• Issue 11, March/April 2002.
  Peer Gynt, Idle Chat.
  
  
• Issue 10, February 2002.
  Ortleib vs Platypus, Bike Right 007.
  
  
• Issue 8, September 2001.
  A combined issue 7/8 (don't ask). All the piccies and stories from Issue 7 with a load of photos from the summer trip.
  
  
• Issue 7, July 2001.
  The last ever edition of BKN!
  
  
• Issue 6, June 2001.
  Some good stuff on it, none of which can I recall as I type this.
  
  
• Issue 5, May 2001.
  The Recumbent UK Missing Issue Issue.
  
  
• Issue 4, March 2001.
  Photos from Bike Right 6.5, Petzl Tikka, links, news, humour etc.
  
  
• Issue 3, December 2000.
  Some very good spoofs from Steve Andrews and loads of links.
  
  
• Issue 2, April/May 2000.
  Jase, Mark and Neil recumbent at Elsdon cafe, links and spoofs.
  
  
• Issue 1, March 2000.
  Photo of a family of liegfietsers, Open Road policy statement and a few links.
  

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This page created and maintained (badly & infrequently) by Séamus D. King.
Views expressed here are not necessarily those of the editorial staff even when they are.
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Last updated 12th December 2003.