Do The Right Thing

Andy over at Carbon Trace is a big fan of the One Mile Solution. An astonishing proportion of the journeys most people make by car are within less than a mile of where they live, so the solution is to replace a few / some / all of these by walking or riding a bike.
To [...]

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Wife was heading off out today to deliver some of her cards to a shop in Tynemouth, and then to head up to Monkseaton library to drop off some postcards publicising the Whitley Bay Book Group she’s starting for New Writing North.
Naturally, she was riding, so as she set off I took a couple of [...]

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So. Yesterday, Amsterdamize put up some charts about the Dutch population’s ways of getting around. Great stuff, showing how far people travel, and what mode of transport they use depending on journey length, and how far people cycle.
As an engineer, I like numbers,  so I thought it would be fun to compare our part of [...]

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Meh! Driving.
It’s just now how I expected it to be - certainly not the way it was portrayed in all those adverts. I mean, I already have the foxy Wife, and lovely Daughter, but where were the wide open roads so I can pretend to be a Formula one driver:

. . . where’s my early [...]

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I was working at a client’s on the Team Valley today, and over lunchtime, I put together a post that I immediately decided to embargo for just over a fortnight. My reasons may become clearer later.
So on the way home, I was wondering what to write about, and surprisingly enough a couple of drivers gave [...]

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Some people love the architecture, and some loathe it. Let’s face it, there’s a certain element of Borg Cube about it, and some of the tenants are cyborgs. The receptionist also once told me that “resistance is useless”, though that’s an entirely different story.
But as an office space the Quadrus Centre’s not bad at all. [...]

Filed under: Bike Culture, Bike Rack, Bike to Work, Cycle, Cycle Infrastructure, Photographs, Video | 4 Comments »

It turns out that this sort of thing cuts both ways. I had a good laugh at French breakfast cereals when I was skiing the other week.
Yes, that’s right kids: Hard drugs make for the breakfast of champions. So help yourself to as much smack & crack as you want!
Anyway, if you don’t live in [...]

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I’ve been feeling tired all day . . . probably something to do with the mental anguish of having done my Tax Return at lunch time.
Anyway, in the afternoon, I did some work swapping gates around for our back yard (so now, you can get ANY bike out without having to jiggle the handlebars to [...]

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I’ve been called all sorts of things in my time, many of them not particularly flattering, though many quite justified. But I have thick skin - something that probably comes from being an engineer. Unless insults are printed out on tractor-feed paper & backed up by a lot of calculations, I just don’t understand them.
Whatever.
Anyway, [...]

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