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Yes indeed, driving is hazardous. In a week in which it’s been revealed that more drivers than ever are chatting away on the phone (almost as if they know their chances of getting away with it are virtually assured, because it’s plain that the police don’t give a damn), I’ve seen all sorts of...
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I was out the other weekend filming how cars pass traffic islands - how much of the road they take up, what their position was, and how fast they were travelling. The strange thing was that while I was stood next to the road filming, all the driving seemed to absolutely exemplary. For some reason,...
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Gah! You could be forgiven if you’ve just read my earlier oh-the-Zen-of-cycling post that today was a perfect day to be out on two wheels. Indeed, in many ways it was . . . apart from the fact that the Mafia have obviously just increased the bounty on my head. In all I had three...
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… of The Netherlands! No, really. Well, sort of - have a look at this video that came via EcoVelo and Amsterdamize : Compare the main interviewee’s attitude to the typical person where you live: "Perhaps you’ll need a cargo bike yourself one day" "No! Never! No, really. No, no, no. I’ll have two children at most and they...
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This video comes via Tom Vanderbilt’s Traffic Blog - always worth a visit. This vision of the future is portrayed as some sort of Promised Land, but it looks more like a vision of hell to me. And I can only assume that with all this extra "leeesure" time that people will have, they’re spending...
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The ideological, swivel-eyed, lunatic fringe are just as convinced that "It is a global Marxist mantra that is going to be used to beat people around the head, tax us to the hilt, smash nations and impose a one-world government." A very vocal minority will try to convince you over the next two weeks that...
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There’s a definite link between bikes and power stations. First of all there was that programme on BBC with its bicycle power station and an unwitting bloke undressing on national TV. Then there are these pictures from the Maslauf blog (a Slovenian fixed gear site) , that I found via Urban Velo . Basically these...
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First off, let me say that I like the Dutchess. Cannondale’s take on the classic ladies’ bike is full of the sort of design features that would normally not make it past the eyeball grabbing concept bike stage. I love the structural rear-mudguard, the fact that it comes with a rack as standard, and that...
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I’m seeing more and more of these strange little cartoon video things from Xtranormal . For me (seeing as I work in a Kafka novel set on the fringes of local government), the TV series The Office was just too painful - too full of the sort of power-deranged, delusional madness that I saw every...
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I remember in The Good Old Days, when you could see the strings and the tell-tale focusing errors of stop-motion animation. But not any more. Just take a look at this, which I found on Velorution this evening: I really don’t know if this is CGI or not. I bet he’s a complete nightmare in...
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