Posted on July 29th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
This via UltraRob on Twitter. One of New York’s ‘finest’ assaulting a cyclist during a Critical Mass thing:
Full story on the New York Times’ City Room blog.
Cyclists are a minority group (less than 5% of the population), and in other circumstances similar to this, the result’s been rioting. Maybe it’s a good job that we’re […]
Filed under: Cycling, News, Cycle, Politics, Ranting, Assassination Attempts, Road Safety, Bike Culture | 2 Comments »
Posted on April 18th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
Are we addicted to oil? Are you? Am I?
First there was a post on the excellent Bike Hugger blog, featuring a picture of a Local Bike Shop’s novel advertising banner (reproduced, left - click through to read their original post), and then quickrelease.tv just posted this analysis from Canada of the true $cost of car […]
Filed under: Global Warming, Environment, Ranting, Climate Change | 3 Comments »
Posted on April 5th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
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 with […]
Filed under: Cycle, Environment, Ranting, Wind, Road Safety, Gateshead | No Comments »
Posted on April 3rd, 2008 by Karl On Sea
Help - this is getting ridiculous!
Our local TV news ran a piece based on my YouTube video about the [not quite, or in fact even near to] 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 on […]
Filed under: Cycling, News, Environment, Ranting, Road Safety, Gateshead | 4 Comments »
Posted on April 2nd, 2008 by Karl On Sea
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 ‘help’ […]
Filed under: Cycling, News, Environment, Ranting, Silly Stuff, Road Safety, Gateshead, Blegging | 2 Comments »
Posted on March 31st, 2008 by Karl On Sea
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 thing […]
Filed under: Cycle, Ranting, Newcastle, Silly Stuff, Road Safety, Gateshead | 24 Comments »
Posted on March 18th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
17 years ago, I was living with my parents during the placement year of my degree. My bedroom backed onto their garden, down the bottom of which was the shed that my father kept all his fishing tackle in. This was your average garden shed, with security features borrowed from Fort Knox - bars on […]
Filed under: Family, Cycle, Ranting, Bummer | No Comments »
Posted on December 22nd, 2007 by Karl On Sea
This is a paraphrase of a headline from The Times from some time in the 50’s or 60’s. The original was “Fog in Channel - Continent Cut Off“, which I guess speaks volumes about Britain’s sense of its place in the world fifty years ago.
Anyway, although Heathrow’s been fog-bound for 24 hours, the weather here’s […]
Filed under: Family, Cycle, Ranting, Silly Stuff, Climate Change | No Comments »
Posted on December 7th, 2007 by Karl On Sea
Last week was BUSY. The work that I’ve been doing on our house for, oh, the last ten years is nearing completion, and like all good DIY jobs, is ending in a rush. Carpet fitters were coming, and everything needed getting ready.
But work was also pretty busy too. We were running a workshop in Bradford […]
Filed under: Swimming, Swim, Business, Ranting, Silly Stuff | 2 Comments »
Posted on December 5th, 2007 by Karl On Sea
No, it hasn’t happened to me for years . . . but it’s probably only a mater of time
I came across this film on quickrelease.tv, which shows how easily most bike locks are defeated. It’s in Dutch, with English subtitles, but don’t let that put you off watching:
For some reason I’m very personally […]
Filed under: Cycling, Ranting | 4 Comments »
