One man went to mow

Brad Hunter, 34, of Chicago is driving across the States from Atlanta to Los Angeles on his lawn mower - obviously doesn't have anything better to do.

Quote of the week
'You're stuck in a traffic jam behind a large bus which is pumping neat cancer straight into the cockpit. An hour later, looking like Lenny Henry, you get to the motorway and head for the outside lane where what amounts to a hurricane will give you the sort of hairdo people get in the electric chair. And then, just as you go past a sign saying 'services 400 miles', it starts to rain.'

Jeremy Clarkson on open-top driving, in The Sun

33% of women can't what?
The UK's biggest cycle show, Bike '99 opened at NEC in Birmingham on Friday... so now's an ideal time for some key bike facts:

1 Ten per cent of men and 33 per cent of women can't ride a bike.

2 More journeys are still made by bike than by rail and the London Underground combined.

3 British cyclists are five times less likely to travel by bicycle than Swiss or Danish people.

4 Kirkpatrick Macmillan, known as Mad Pete, invented the 'boneshaker', the first bike with pedals.

5 The record for cycling the 874 miles from Land's End to John O'Groats was set in 1990 by Andy Wilkinson, who took 45 hours, two minutes and 18 seconds. Pauline Strong holds the women's with 54 hours, 49 minutes and 45 seconds.

6 More bikes than cars were stolen in 1993: 595,000 bikes compared with 541,000 cars.

7 Australian Neville Patten covered 4.1 metres on a bike with wheels 1.9cm in diameter.

8 John Prescott has a bike (and a brace of Jaguars). He nearly came off it on Friday when an angry environmentalist went for him as he was launching a cycle route from Middlesbrough.