| Name: | Richard Taylor <rwt@hplb.hpl.hp.com> | |
| Age: | M 35 (5th December 1962) | |
| Mass: | 60 kg | |
| Size: | 183 cm | |
| Bikes: | a V-Rex, normal commuter: 4 K miles per annum a Ryan, cold weather faired commuter: 1.5 K a KingCycle, fast weekend rides: 4 K a Speedy, for playing around: 1 K a mountain bike, the odd bit of hard off road: 500 miles a Santana Tandem, weekend rides with my daughter: typically 1K a Brompton, train and plane: 1K a Bike Friday Pocket Rocket: 3K a butchers delivery bike: 30 miles a year, but with a hell of a load a lso have a collection of Moultons, Ordinaries, a couple of Pedersens and various other bits and pieces that get their outings. | |
| Rides: | 24000 km/year (15-16000 miles) | |
| Where: | Bristol, UK | |
| Works: | H-P Labs (in charge of hiding the bugs in the software) | |
| Likes: | Real Ale, Cycling (never...), Climbing, Renaissance Music, Jazz try to keep up with two small children, the older of whom is bike mad (hence the tandem purchase), build HPVs (a fully suspended design of mine is being put into limited production for local), consumption work as a local bike advocate, play with robots,, program, walk, listen to music (biiiiig choral works, folk music, trad-jazz) eat & drink Real Ale. Favquote: "Everything that is going to be invented has been" - head of the US Patent Office around 1890. | |
| Climbs: | 5: All sorst of hills, mountains and boulders | |
| Crash: | (2) on the Trice (broken tie rod, forced into ditch by car), a couple of headfirsters on a head first as a youngster, knocked off an MTB by an over enthusiatic and "blind" motorist (yup, having seen the resulting mess to me and the totalling of my helmet, I still wear one!), and the classic "get to traffic lights, wait, look down, think "hmmm, I forgot to unclip....", not-so-graceful slide onto side : -) | |
| Beard: | Nope... | |
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