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Every month we bring a site which has caught our eye to these pages. It could have anything at all to do with cycling. It might be serious. It might be frivolous. But whether it makes us think or laugh (or both) there really is a wide world out there to explore!

There's a bike I pass almost every day on my way to work. If I don't see it in the morning I can almost guarantee seeing it locked up outside the office down the street when I go wandering at lunchtime. It's nothing grand, a white-framed Velo Ecosse, clearly a daily commuter, but there's something about it that catches my eye every time.

And now I know what to do with my appreciation. I need to let the owner know that their bike is 'hot'.

Your Bike Is Hot has a glorious premise: "Reward good taste: print out “your bike is hot” cards and stick one in the next hot bicycle you roll by. Leave a note; be anonymous; make your own card. It doesn’t matter. You know what matters: hot bicycle proliferation."

And that's it.

There's no snobbery involved here, and no preference for fixed wheel, or mountain bike, or recumbent, or any other flavour of bicycle choice. If you happen to think that a bike is 'hot' that's really all that matters, because you can almost guarantee that the owner of the bike will agree with you.

I now plan to arm myself with 'Your Bike Is Hot' cards and deliver a strong message of support to the people who "... do right by the neighbourhood when you mount gleaming wheels."

What a marvellously simple idea.

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