Archive for October, 2008

David Hembrow's talking about Critical Mass today - a subject that's been picked up by Andy Cline over at Carbon Trace. Neither of these two are big fans of Critical Mass, and I've got to agree. I've never seen a critical mass demo here, but what I have seen online doesn't fill me with a...
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I was at a cycling conference last week, thanks to the generousity of that Nice Carlton Reid - he was one of the speakers, and had a free guest’s ticket, which I grabbed at when offered. The theme was “Cycling and the Sustainable Door to Door Journey”. Not very exciting-sounding, and with speakers on the...
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So yesterday, Brad insinutated that I might be one of those people who would be up for some “crazy bike love“. Now, while it’s true that I DO love to ride, and have given each of my bikes a name (Daisy, Christine, Trixie, and  . . . um . . . Wilf), I’m really...
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You wouldn’t believe the number of reasons that people dream up for not cycling, and staying instead in their nice, expensive, gas-guzzling, planet-wrecking, antisocial, unsafe cars. Via the Bike Darlington Blog, I came across this new research from Cycle England: Two thirds (64%) of women say they never cycle and just 2% cycle every day...
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I’ve been BUSY these last couple of weeks. Really busy. Put it this way, work is starting to interfere with my fitness. And that just can’t be good! So I’ve had to grab it while I can . . . like on Saturday: In the morning, I had a meeting up at Starbucks / Borders at...
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It was Daughter’s swimming lesson on Friday night, and also Wife’s book club (think: alcoholics anonymous, but with lots of cold white wine. Oh, and books too. Allegedly) This means that after the swimming lesson, Daughter and I eat out. Nothing fancy (she’s seven) - Pizza Hut / Pizza Express / TGI Fridays /...
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So I fanally got back to see my doctor about the nagging injury I picked up in my right foot this year. Basically, I think it’s an over-use strain of the plantar fascia (the tissue connecting heel to the the ball of the foot area), that I picked up when my running training took...
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David Hembrow’s recent comments have got me thinking. What’s the secret to getting more poeple on their bikes? Things that can and are being done to varying degrees include (in no particular order): Cycle lanes. Actually cycle lanes that mean something, rather than just being tokenistic jestures, that vanish at the first sign of difficulty...
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So. Back to this thing about helmets. You might think that I’m either just writing about this for controversy’s sake, or a glutton for punishment. Actually it’s neither - I just want to understand the facts. Not that there was much in the way of punishment after the last post. There was only one comment...
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I’ve been thinking a little about this over the last couple of weeks. Trying to reconcile my driving with my cycling, walking, and use of public transport, that is. So here’s my problem. My parents & sister live some 350 miles from here. Wife’s sister in Wales is 400 miles each way, and Wife’s parents...
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