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Want to ride a bike to look cool? Want rolled up trouser legs, cycling cap with the bill flicked up, a bad-assed courier bag, and fixed-wheel bike with tiny handlebars? Want to ride your bike like you’re taking part in some sort of alley cat race? What do you think might be the result...
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Last week we took a bit of a mini-break down to Kent to visit my parents, and then back home via Hotel Von SmallHaussen in That London on Friday, and Auberge Algernond in Cambridge on Saturday night.
The trip to London was interesting - I managed to get a parking ticket through my own stupidity...
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The part of me that would shout at people cycling along the pavement when there’s a perfectly good road next to it, albeit a road with murderous levels of traffic and no provision whatsoever for bikes, used to feel somewhat underwhelmed when it comes to cycle hire schemes. The logic in my head would...
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On the road I’m a pretty confident rider. Assertive, ready to hold my own, claim my space, use the gimlet stare of power to overcome the innate sense of dominance, invulnerability and superiority that some drivers seem to feel. You get the picture.
Yet last Monday, I think I had the sort of experience that...
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Von Smallhaussen is still doing her running club thing, so on Saturday morning I dragged my backside out of bed to accompany her to the local park. We did three laps at an easy run / walk, meeting up with Scary-But-Nice-Val (a.k.a. "Put-Some-F**king-Effort-In"-Val) and her dog half way through. I did the final lap...
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Love London’s Cyclists from ibikelondon on Vimeo .
More of this sort of stuff at I Bike London .
Actually, this has given me an idea for the ultimate bicycle protest - one that’d probably be far more effective than the circus that is critical mass. What if, on one widely publicised day, every cyclist in...
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So there’s a whole lot of to and fro about this:
Richard at Cyclelicio.us pointed out that the obvious answer that was missing was "because it’s fun", which seemed to get the Good People Of Copenhagen all vexed - to the point of wanting to get off the metaphorical bus:
I got off the...
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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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