Gateshead

What’s Your Effective Commuting Range?

What’s Your Effective Commuting Range?

Yesterday the weather was forecast to be mostly good, and I had a meeting scheduled with a client that my SatNav said was only 36 miles away by bike. Hmmm . . . with fuel prices now at £1.30 a litre (that’s $9.60 for a US gallon) (So all you in the USA...
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Posted in Cycle, Environment, Gateshead, Global Warming, Newcastle, News, Road Safety, Whitley Bay | 3 Comments »

Sturdy Commuting Bike

I was at a training workshop today on the other side of Gateshead. For once I was in the audience (throwing soft fruit, insults, etc), and I had a few items to pick up on the way home . . . But Gateshead’s still within 15 miles of home, so I just had to...
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Posted in Climate Change, Cycle, Environment, Gateshead | 1 Comment »

Long-ish & Slow Ride

After the mayhem of Daughter’s birthday party yesterday, I ended up drinking a little more than intended over dinner with my parents last night. So the plans for an early O’clock ride went right out the window, and I ended up not leaving the house ’till almost two O’clock. Not due to a hangover,...
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Posted in Brick, Cycle, Friends, Gateshead, Newcastle | 1 Comment »

Bad Weather Coming - Ride While You Can

Bad Weather Coming - Ride While You Can

The weather forecast for tomorrow is for snow. We won’t get much here (the sea keeps us nice and ‘warm’, but that’s a strictly relative term), and although I don’t mind riding on snowy roads, you do have to take things carefully. So any training session would end up being more about spending time...
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Posted in Cycle, Environment, Gateshead, Ranting, Road Safety, Wind | No Comments »

Media Bandwagon

Help - this is getting ridiculous! Our local TV news ran a piece based on my YouTube video about the shortest bike lane in the country. Apparently I’m now “cycling groups in Gateshead”,  and to protect me from being mobbed / rising up like an angry mob...
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Posted in Cycling, Environment, Gateshead, News, Ranting, Road Safety | 4 Comments »

World’s Shortest Cycle Lane: A Clear Winner

World’s Shortest Cycle Lane: A Clear Winner

It turns out that here in the UK we really are world class. After seeing my short bike lane film, DaveP suggested on quickrelease.TV that I look up the Warrington Cycle Campaign’s pages. They have a feature called Cycle Facility of the Month, pouring ridicule on the daft things our town planners do to...
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Posted in Blegging, Cycling, Environment, Gateshead, News, Ranting, Road Safety, Silly Stuff | 2 Comments »

Fame - it’s hard won

Fame - it’s hard won

My little video about the cycle lane in Gateshead has gone mainstream. The Newcastle Journal ran it today as their front cover story, with the main details taking up most of page 3! Naturally they wanted pictures to go with the story (my good looks sell papers? Something like that, I’m sure), and naturally I...
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Posted in Climate Change, Cycle, Environment, Gateshead, Newcastle, Road Safety | 6 Comments »

World’s Shortest Cycle Lane?

There’ve been a couple of posts in the last few days about short, stupid, pointless cycle lanes - Bike Hugger has one, and so does Slate V (seen on the excellent Bicycle Diaries). The trouble is that both of these examples were from the USA, and as we know, everything’s bigger in America. The...
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Posted in Cycle, Gateshead, Newcastle, Ranting, Road Safety, Silly Stuff | 26 Comments »