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I really, really like the Superhighway Manifesto of the London Cycling Campaign that I posted about at the weekend. The trouble is, the odds are that the people in overall charge of traffic & transport in your (my) local authority don’t actually ride a bike as an everyday mode of transport. So the fine...
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Riding in the rain? With a white shirt on? And no mudguards? How dare you turn up to work with that streak of black road-grime up your back - go home and get changed at once! Oh, and a huge thank you to Yokota Fritz at Cyclicio.us for the pointer on this one - I...
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Sometimes it feels as if roads really are just for cars - especially the direct, get you from A to B roads that would be practical on a bike. Anyway, this video via Commute By Bike pretty much sums up what we all know - "impossible" is just a word that Luke Skywalker would use...
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Over the last week or so there’s been a few videos of historical traffic situations posted - from Portland, Copenhagen and Amsterdam . So I thought it would be interesting to see what the UK looked like in a similar period. What I found on YouTube was this fantastic video, which I think is from...
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If you don’t speak German, this’ll seem like hard work for a Friday afternoon - you’re going to have to read the subtitles. But there’s a point to all this, so stick with it to the end. (via the excellent People Powered blog of Andy in Germany )
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I’m trawling through Youtube & Vimeo to try to find a clip showing what cycling was like in the UK in the 1950s for comparison with the vid of the same era from the Netherlands, as shown by David Hembrow & Amsterdamize . Not much luck so far . . . but I did find...
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Obviously there have been some refinements since these earlier models were demonstrated.
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This is something that’s definitely close to my heart - as someone who was on the slide towards middle-aged spread, but is now very much reformed, I’m a bit like the people you know who’ve given up smoking. There’s none so zealous in the anti-smoking brigade as the reformed smokers! Anyway, take a look at...
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Waddya know - despite my lack of foresight and planning and generally getting my backside into gear last weekend in Amsterdam, this film appeared today on Copenhagenize.com (the blog that’s all about cycling in the other cycling city ). It features a foreigner’s impressions of Amsterdam, with a whole lot of vox pop...
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You’ve heard of "happy slapping"? Well how about "Happy Splashing"? We’re going to need a bigger wall.
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