Bike to Work

When I was riding through North Shields today, I passed a woman riding an old mountain bike, with mudguards, paniers and a basket on the front. She was going rather slow, but seemed to be really working hard at it. As I pulled level, I could see why - unlike the lady in the photo...
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So this afternoon, on my way back from the Team Valley, I dropped in to my local Apple dealer to see about some more memory for my PowerMac. The guy I usually deal with was outside indulging in his recreational drug (nicotine), chatting with a friend of his. As I rode up, this guy looked...
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OK - first off, please go and read this first rate article by Andy in Germany - Car Free Struggles. When you’re done, and have left a suitable comment, come back here and read the rest of this post. You’re back? Good. Here’s my question for you: Really, how hard is it to ride your bike...
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I have a love/hate relationship with bike lanes and cycle tracks. Too often, they’re like the little girl from the nursery rhyme. She rode down the street on a bike that she’d borrowed, When bike lanes were good, they were very, very good, But when they were bad, they were horrid. OK, so I’ll probably wait a long...
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Coming to probably quite small screens on a desk top near you: *UPDATE* The full version of this video is now featured on this blog post, along with details of how I feel Nick Clennett, Gateshead Council’s Head of Transportation and Highways has let us down with the sub-standard bike facilities around Gateshead College’s Baltic...
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It’s funny how we do this, isn’t it? Start off with inanimate objects, yet before long we’ve attached all sorts of anthropomorphic characteristics to them. It starts by simply refering to ‘it’ as ‘he’ or ’she’, and before you know what’s happening, this thin end of the wedge has opened you up to all...
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Somehow this completely passed me by last year - Change Your World a Sustrans campaign about getting people to use their cars 10% less. Of course, car use actually dropped by 12% last year, though everyone seems to be saying that this was due to the economy going into free-fall. Or as our Prime...
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Show these two films to your friends who don’t ride bikes: a) The Plight of The American Biped (via Tom Vanderbilt & EcoVelo amongst others): Vs b) Happy Birthday, Velib! Ask which society they’d rather live in. On the assumption they answer b), ask when they’re going to and ride it to work / school...
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So yesterday was meeting & talking about getting kids on their bikes with the Tony Blair Sports Foundation . . . and today was email chat with a business support agency in Tyneside about getting their employees on their bikes . . . and then a great meeting with Sustrans. (followed by having to...
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I’m on the LinkedIn Bike To Work Group, and last week the question raised was, Bicycle to a job interview? Good idea? Probably not, I’d guess, even assuming weather that would allow one to arrive comfortably in appropriate office attire. I recall once reading job interview tips that included renting an automobile in case one’s own...
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