An extended, hour long edition of the show featuring French writer, poet, cyclist and cultural ambassador Paul Fournel (pictured). We stroll from the French House in Soho to the Rapha Cycle Club in Clerkenwell, to visit an exhibition of a hundred years of racing bicycles. The exhibition runs for two more weeks and is well [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Advocacy'
Talking Le Tour with Paul Fournel
July 21st, 2010 · 5 Comments
Tags: Advocacy · France · Gear · History · Literature · London · People · Podcast · Sport · Tour de France
London Assembly Member Jenny Jones rides the Cycle Superhighway
July 16th, 2010 · 9 Comments
Jenny Jones asks all the right questions. Good, campaigning stuff from the Green Party Assembly member.
Tags: Advocacy · London · People · Road safety
Letter to Keltbray & reply
June 24th, 2010 · 3 Comments
Yesterday I wrote a letter to Keltbray, the lorry company whose vehicle was involved in the collision with a cyclist on Borough High Street. (It was a Keltbray lorry that killed cyclist Haris Ahmed earlier in the year, on a backstreet just a few yards from where yesterday’s collision took place).
Tags: Advocacy · London · Road safety
Cyclists and lorries don’t mix: this week’s evidence
June 24th, 2010 · 9 Comments
Not much text needed to accompany these photographs taken yesterday on the streets of Southwark and posted on the SE1 Forum.
Exhibit A: Lorry and cyclist collide on Borough High Street, junction of Dover Street. Keltbray services the Shard construction site and one of its lorries killed a London cyclist back in March, just a few [...]
Tags: Advocacy · London · Road safety
Mayor of London’s Cycling Questions (and answers): June 2010
June 17th, 2010 · 1 Comment
With thanks as ever to the office of Jenny Jones AM here is this month’s batch of cycling questions and answers to the Mayor of London. Ian in Jenny’s office writes, “Lots of interesting answers from the Mayor. Real progress made on cycle parking at East london Line stations, as a result of questioning. Going [...]
Cycle Superhighways – Waste of Paint or Copenhagenization?
May 18th, 2010 · 4 Comments
A long, hard look at the Mayor of London’s plans for 12 cycle superhighways – bike routes from the outer boroughs along London’s main arterial roads. With Kulveer Ranger, Boris Johnson’s top transport adviser, Rob Ainsley of the Real Cycling blog, and Charlie Lloyd of the London Cycling Campaign.
Tags: Advocacy · London · People · Podcast · Politics · Road safety
Video: London Critical Mass – Lorries Killing Cyclists
April 3rd, 2010 · No Comments
The London Cycling Campaign have released an excellent video.
Tags: Advocacy · London · Politics · Road safety
Lorries/HGVs/LGVs killing cyclists: an appeal to London listeners
March 22nd, 2010 · 9 Comments
Last Thursday, on what felt like a warm, sunny first day of Spring, I was witness to the immediate aftermath of a collision involving a cyclist and a 32 tonne articulated lorry. It was a truly horrible, chilling sight. The lorry was stopped in the middle of the road and the crushed remains of a [...]
Tags: Advocacy · London · Rides · Road safety
Cycling Questions and Answers from the Mayor of London: February 2010
March 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment
With thanks to the Greater London Authority, here are the cycling-related questions put to the Mayor of London, and his answers, for the month of February 2010.
Tags: Advocacy · London · Politics
We’re all Aristoteleans now
February 10th, 2010 · 3 Comments
Nigel Warburton, whose Philosophy Bites is among the brightest stars in the podcasting firmament, appeared on The Bike Show late last year, talking about the ethics of running red traffic lights.
In the current issue of Prospect Magazine, he takes a deeper look at whether breaking the law can ever be morally justified. In a passage [...]
Tags: Advocacy · People · Politics · Road safety
Cycling Questions and Answers from the Mayor of London: January 2010
February 5th, 2010 · No Comments
With thanks to the Greater London Authority, here are the cycling-related questions put to the Mayor of London, and his answers, for the month of January 2010.
Mayor’s Question Time: Cycling (December)
December 18th, 2009 · No Comments
With thanks to the office of Jenny Jones AM, here is the monthly digest of questions and answers to the Mayor that are relevant to cycling.
Tags: Advocacy · London · Politics
Red light means go (or does it?)
December 15th, 2009 · 11 Comments
Should cyclists stop at red lights? Why do we feel such a strong urge to keep rolling? Should our behavior be guided by the law of the land or the laws of common courtesy? What would Isaac Newton and Thomas Aquinas have to say about the matter? Bringing their expertise to a discussion of the [...]
Tags: Advocacy · People · Podcast · Road safety · Science
The physics of running red lights
December 7th, 2009 · 27 Comments
It’s the Christmas silly season and newspapers are again rounding on cyclists (aka ‘lycra louts’) for running red lights and putting other road users at risk. Never mind the lack of any hard evidence of injuries or deaths caused by cyclists running red lights, it’s a story that appears to please news and online editors, [...]
Mayor’s Question Time: Cycling (November)
December 1st, 2009 · No Comments
With thanks to the office of Jenny Jones AM, here is the monthly digest of cycling Q&A to the Mayor, for the month of November 2009.
Tags: Advocacy
Calling Time on “Sorry Mate, I Didn’t See You” (SMIDSY)
November 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment
The Bike Show moves into advocacy mode this week with guest in the studio Debra Rolfe, Campaigns Director of the Cyclists’ Touring Club (CTC), Britain’s largest cycling organisation with 60,000+ members. Debra is spearheading the CTC’s new campaign against bad driving by motorists called Stop SMIDSY. The aim is to draw attention to the dangers [...]
Tags: Advocacy · Art and design · Events · London · People · Podcast · Road safety
Season Opener: Childhood Daze
October 26th, 2009 · No Comments
A youthful feel to this season opener with a visit to Lockleaze Primary School in Bristol, one of an number of Sustrans ‘Bike It’ schools acros the country. Plus childhood memories from Paul Fournel, reading from Need for the Bike* in person at the Calder Bookshop. We get the inside scoop on the much-awaited Sturmey [...]
Tags: Advocacy · England · Fixed wheel · Gear · Literature · Podcast
A modest proposal to save lives: extend the lorry ban by three hours
October 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
It’s late on Friday afternoon, well past beer o’clock, but here’s an idea to make London safer for cyclists: keep the biggest lorries off the streets during the morning rush hour. If enacted I am confident it would save lives. It can be done by tweaking existing legislation.
Tags: Advocacy · London · Road safety
TfL Draft Cycle Safety Action Plan: plenty of carrots but where are the sticks?
October 23rd, 2009 · 3 Comments
Transport for London has published a draft Cycle Safety Action Plan. Comments on the plan are required by December 11th 2009. The plan is good in parts but the emphasis is on voluntary measures, partnerships and awareness raising, when what is really needed is tough action against dangerous driving and facing up to the hard [...]
Tags: Advocacy · London · Politics · Road safety
Cycling questions and answers from the Mayor of London: Oct 09
October 22nd, 2009 · 2 Comments
Here are the cycling-related questions from the London Assembly answered by the Mayor this month. The questions cover a wide range of subjects, from lorries killing cyclists (including a question specifically about the Vallance Road/Whitechapel Road junction) to the new cycle superhighways, the London cycle hire scheme and much more.
I’ll be publishing the digest, [...]


