Assassination Attempts

I was out the other weekend filming how cars pass traffic islands - how much of the road they take up, what their position was, and how fast they were travelling. The strange thing was that while I was stood next to the road filming, all the driving seemed to absolutely exemplary. For some reason,...
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Gah! You could be forgiven if you’ve just read my earlier oh-the-Zen-of-cycling post that today was a perfect day to be out on two wheels. Indeed, in many ways it was . . . apart from the fact that the Mafia have obviously just increased the bounty on my head. In all I had three...
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Now there’s a phrase that you don’t often hear. While out riding on Sunday, we came across this - a Saunier Duval white van parked so as to block the cycle route completely. The only option was for us to break the law and cycle along the pavement (on the left of the...
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What goes around comes around. It seems that when male drivers act like complete gimps, it’s not their fault - it’s a matter of poor breeding. According to Tom Vanderbilt’s reporting, it’s something to do with relative testosterone & estrogen levels that they experienced in the womb . Those with longer ring fingers than...
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Over on Urban Velo today there’s a piece about how Philadelphia City Council is considering bicycle registration. This is on the back of recent cases in which there were two pedestrian deaths resulting form collisions with bikes. In addition to mandatory registration of all riders over the age of 12, legislators are calling for Increasing fines...
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Now that winter is definitely probably almost nearly here (currently sunny & just below 20 °C here is Croatia), the chances are that you’re going to end up riding at night. Unless you are actually a Bike Ninja, and on some sort of assassination mission, it’s a good idea to make yourself as visible...
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There’s something going on, y’know. It seems that this thing where women cyclists in That London are at more risk than men are just refuses to go away. According to this report by the BBC , women account for only 27% of the capital’s bike journeys. Yet of the eight cyclists killed by drivers of...
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One of the institutions of British cycling is the British Heart Foundation’s London to Brighton Ride . With 27,000 riders heading out to cause traffic mayhem (the roads on the route are closed to proper, tax-paying traffic…) the ride’s about 60 miles, and the event has been run since 1980. But actually, it’s a...
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I really, really like the Superhighway Manifesto of the London Cycling Campaign that I posted about at the weekend. The trouble is, the odds are that the people in overall charge of traffic & transport in your (my) local authority don’t actually ride a bike as an everyday mode of transport. So the fine...
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According to our local weather forecast, today was the only day of the week where the weather was predicted to be anything other than underwater-rainy. Now, I don’t mind riding in the rain, but it’s 16 miles to work. On Siegfried that takes just over an hour, which...
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