Posts Tagged ‘ photos ’

I met the HR Manager for TT2 Ltd at an event I was presenting earlier this week - TT2 are the operators of the Tyne Tunnels. In discussion, he brought up something that’d quite passed me by - even though I’m a reasonably regular user of the Tyne Pedestrian and Cycle Tunnels. The refurbishment of these,...
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In the early 1930s, there were over 7,000 road deaths a year. Yet this was an era which we now look back on as some sort of rural idyl when compared with today’s roads - they had just two and a half million cars (WARNING: Links to a Daily Mail article. But it’s actually...
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One of my mates, Mike, is a style-conscious chap about town. He wears a tweed waistcoat, often sports a beard, and runs an advertising agency. Don’t hold the latter against him - he’s a top bloke for advice & fat-chewing when you’re in a fix (and also has an eye for design, copy and...
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Like most children in the UK in the 70s, I had a bike. The one that really got me my independence was an orange Raleigh Commando, which lasted me from Christmas day of 1977, up to the spring of 1981. I only lived 400m from school, so I didn’t use it for “commuting”. But after...
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There seems to be some confusion about how people on bikes should be treated. The tradition (and legal standing) in the UK is that we’re a vehicle, and subject to the full weight of most of the highway code, road traffic acts, etc. The trouble is, when this definition was settled in 1888, things were...
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Nice weather this afternoon, so I took the Frankenbike to the shops to pick up dog food supplies. Seeing as the light was so good I also took some photos of the bike - named after another Dead Poet, she’s Mary Shelley - for obvious reasons: Mary Shelley, Frankenbike. Around 3m long and with a...
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The other weekend I took my DIY cargo bike to the shops to do a major stock up. The advantage of the bike is that I can park it right by the shop’s entrance: You’ll notice that I’ve only locked it with a D-lock through the back wheel - it’s hard to find things to...
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It was that time of year again - the time when I meet up with a couple of thousand of my closest friends at a pub in That London and head off to a café for breakfast, just 110 miles or so up the road. Yes that’s right: Last Saturday was the Dunwich Dynamo! In case...
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This caught my eye in yesterday’s Guardian: Alice Furguson and Amy Rose organised getting their Bristol street closed for a street party but without the party bit - they just wanted their kids to be able to play outside without having to worry about cars. With minimal organisation from the street’s parents (they just gave the...
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For the last couple of years I’ve been using a pair of Dawes pannier bags on my Pashley. The trouble is that they’re not really designed for the chunkiness of the Pashley’s rack, and they’d also be really easy for someone to just lift off when the bike’s parked. It was to overcome these shortcomings...
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