Video

Some of you may remember the video I made last year about The World’s Shortest Cycle Lane. This was in Gateshead, next to their shiny new college, and a mere ten metres long. At the time, several commenters, and Gateshead Council’s extremely friendly and approachable* Team Leader for Traffic Projects and Rights of Way said...
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Can you believe it - I was ill over Christmas! It was one of these 48-hours of feeling dreadful things, that’s now settled down to being ‘just’ a rotten cold. So I spent most of Christmas Day in bed, or staggering around like a zombie & generally being no fun at all to...
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This via Tom Vanderbilt’s ‘How We Drive’ blog (think of it as the blog of the book): Coming soon - a mobile phone blocking key for your car. It’s paired to your phone, and when the key’s in the ignition, it blocks all incoming and outgoing calls & SMS text messages. Anyone calling you get’s...
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Damn it was cold yesterday! The kind of cold where proper roughy-toughy Cyclists stuff a newspaper down the front of their jersey just to keep off the wind chill. Thank goodness for modern clothing materials, as I really don’t have the physique that would be made attractive by a reverse image transfer of the...
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I really like to ride my bike. I’ve always liked to ride. But it’s only over the last couple of years that I’ve been using it as my main mode of transport locally. The numbers speak for themselves: From when I was eleven, I did something like 500 miles between 1981 and 1985 on my...
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This video shows a reformed ex-bicycle thief in the Netherlands. We’ll call him Fritz, but that’s not his real name. Anyway, the premise of the film is to show you just how easy it is to break into most cheep bike locks - in this case less
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OK, it doesn’t bite - the Smart Lock is a prototype bike lock designed by Michael Lambourn, that sprays the would-be bike thief with paint / smart water / skunk scent / ebola-infected blood / whatever when they try to cut it. Basically it’s
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So yesterday, Brad insinutated that I might be one of those people who would be up for some “crazy bike love“. Now, while it’s true that I DO love to ride, and have given each of my bikes a name (Daisy, Christine, Trixie, and  . . . um . . . Wilf), I’m really...
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Yes, they’ve been at it again . . .well sort of. I did a little noodling around on YouTube, and came up with two public information videos about locking your bike. The first is from the ’70s, and is worth watching if only for the Quentin Cr
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. . . but you’ve gotta love them for it, the scamps! This video is via The Messenger of Doom, and features a bunch of guys and girls getting together for a bit of bike fun & racing. Not someone’s-gonna-die alleycat racing. But not quite as sensible & organised as some events I’ve been on...
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