Bike to Work

When I was 12 years old, I first started riding to school. It was five miles each way, along some relatively busy roads. Yet there weren’t so many cars on the roads, and drivers seemed to have a whole lot more awareness of other road users. I can’t think of a single instance of...
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Does riding a traditional British roadster count as Ironman training? When you’re riding to the train station & back? Depends on your thinking really. I had just run 14 miles, this is a heavy bike, and the headwind on the way in was totally relentless. So I’m logging it! Workout: Type: Cycle Date: 03/19/2010 Total Time: 2:00:00.00 Calories: 1168 Distance: 24...
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So funny it hurts! (via bikecommuters.com )
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Pedestrian refuges / traffic islands - put there for your safety. On the one hand, they mean that pedestrians can cross roads one lane at a time. And drivers, get a greater perception of their speed, which hopefully means that they slow down. The trouble is, that there isn’t always room for a car AND...
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You remember the unwritten rule of cycling when it’s windy? The one that says the wind will miraculously change direction and be right in your face for the ride home as well as the ride out? Well it DIDN’T happen last Friday! Ride to work was head-to-head with a 20mph wind from the North, interspersed with...
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Last Thursday was officially a bike day in my training schedule. The trouble was that I had a series of off-site meetings - how to accommodate these in with my training? The answer was obvious when I thought about it. Training doesn’t always have to be head-down-bum-up kind of work. Sometimes,...
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Bikeportland.org yesterday featured a map showing their local accident blackspots for cyclists: What you’ll notice from this is that accidents seem to happen more on busier streets, and most frequently at junctions. (In other news, the sky is apparently blue, grass green, and dogs found to bark). You can see this even more clearly on...
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Today’s Yehuda Moon strip just about sums up the commuting that’s just avound the corner: . . . or if you’re cycling through Essex & Suffolk with us this July , it’s the kind of thing you see at about 4a.m.-ish …
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I had a late start at the office yesterday, arriving just in time for lunch. One of the questions I was asked as I locked my bike up,  by a colleague who lives just around the corner from me was, I’d quite like to ride to work, but don’t you get all sweaty? I laughed out...
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There’s been some chatter recently about road signs. Apparently there are a whole new set of ‘em being rolled out across the US, as shown here on cyclelicio.us : In the UK, we’re seeing more of these ones, which allow bikes to contraflow the wrong way down one-way streets: Strangely, I’m not so...
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