Anyone who rides a fixie must know how this feels: you end up explaining to someone you know about riding a bike with one brake, no gears and a fixed wheel and they look at you as if you are mad. “Why the hell would you want to do that?” they quite reasonably argue. Whilst [...]
Bike trees
Is this good?
more cyclists = safer cycling
Interesting piece of research that shows that more bikes on the road mean less accidents involving vehicles. The report actually talks about cyclists and pedestrians and the basic premise is that, in areas where more journeys are done on foot or by pedal, then the number of accidents actually reduce. You can download it for [...]
Watching me, watching you
Been watching a few videos on YouTube that have been posted by cycling vigil antes. Basically, these guys ride about with a camera permanently sellotaped to their helmets and then each time they encounter some bad driving, they post it on YouTube. There are a couple of guys that do this regularly, you can see [...]
How can people be so complacent?
I wanted this blog to be a bit light-hearted and extolling the joy of cycling bla bla. But a few days after my post moaning about the lack of interest on behalf of Wandsworth Council about the whole question of HGVs and cyclists, someone else has been killed. This takes the total number of cyclists [...]
Days like these
End of October – beautiful clear morning, crisp, windless air. The sun streaming through the trees and lighting up the dew… even in London. As I glide past grumpy people in cars, or squashed onto buses I am convinced that if they just tried my commute on a morning like this, they would never want [...]
Day 1 & why I’m doing this
I decided to do this because a few things have happened recently that have made me wonder. If I have any agenda, then it’s that everyone should be able to get the most from cycling and that we all live in peaceful harmony with other roadusers. Is that a bit of a pipedream? I dunno [...]
