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Remember this classic photograph from Amsterdamize ?
It’s an example of the art of city cycling at its best. The thing is, with climate change and stuff like that, there’s the potential for this sort of scene to be dramatically altered in the not-too-distant future:
So for this week’s caption contest, all you have...
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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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Actually this is Oxford Circus. Until now, it’s been a victim of the "keep the people away from the cars by fencing them in" logic that traffic planners love.
You know the sort of thing - put fences between the people and the cars, so the drivers feel that it’s "safe" to drive faster than...
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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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This via a comment by Scubamatt on today’s Yehuda Moon strip:
Man convicted in orange rabbit pedicab hit-and-run
Friday, October 30, 2009
By The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Mercedes driver testified he didn’t see the 6-foot-tall orange rabbit driving a pedicab because he was fumbling for a dropped cell phone.
Pedicab driver Kate Altermatt...
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I’ve never ridden a BMX bike - I always had sensible big-wheeled bikes as a kid, and to be honest there’s something odd about an adult learning to do the sort of amazing stunts, tricks & jumps that the cool kids can do.
But that doesn’t mean we don’t like BMXs - au contraire, we...
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Sometimes I can’t figure out if I’m poor, have an eye for a bargain, or am just plain tight. And not in the sense that Cameron from the Sarah Connor Chronicles would use to describe someone who’s cool either.
So when I noticed that Evans Cycles were having an early summer sale, I was intrigued....
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This week we return to National Cycle Network Route 1, and its interesting feature just south of Ashington that I encountered on Monday:
Basically a first-rate bike path ends abruptly, forcing you to take a really annoying series of mile wide zig-zags to continue the journey South. The more foolhardy get lost in the woods...
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. . . but he was never the smartest of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. And thankfully, UK drivers stick to the speed limit, according to the Department for Transport’s A Safer Way: Consultation on Making Britain’s Roads the Safest in the World report:
Click through on the graph and download the entire report from...
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