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.
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Cycling Questions and Answers from the Mayor of London: February 2010
March 2nd, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: Advocacy · London · Politics
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.
Well-being
January 12th, 2010 · 6 Comments
January is the perfect month to take a closer look at how to stay feeling good on the bike. In the studio to share their expertise are Michael Crebbin, a sports physio specialising in cycling-related problems, and Rebecca Bogue who teaches a yoga class designed especially for cyclists.
Contact Rebecca via the Bodywise studio in the [...]
Tags: London · People · Podcast · Science · Sport
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
Wanted: Bicycle Mechanics
November 16th, 2009 · 14 Comments
This week’s show looks at the chronic lack of bicycle mechanics with the Ninon Asuni of Bicycle Workshop. Ninon founded Bicycle Workshop nearly thirty years ago after deciding she’d had enough of working as a librarian. She’s now among Britain’s most highly regarded bicycle mechanics with a devoted following in London and the rest of [...]
Tags: Gear · London · People · Podcast
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
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, [...]
Tags: Advocacy · London · People · Politics
Cycle Super-MyWays
September 17th, 2009 · 10 Comments
Boris Johnson is London’s first cycling Mayor and he has put a ‘cycling revolution’ at the heart of his programme of government. As well as the Cycle Hire Scheme, Mayor Johnson has announced plans for what he has dubbed ‘cycle superhighways’. There will be twelve superhighways, each offering “safe, fast, direct routes to central London [...]
Tags: Advocacy · Architecture · Art and design · England · London · Politics · Road safety
Cycle Chic
August 3rd, 2009 · 5 Comments
Riding with Amy Fleuriot, a young British fashion designer who’s Cyclodelic range of clothing and accessories is offering women a more stylish alternative to the typically drab clothing sold to cyclists. This is the final show in the current season. Thanks for listening!
Tags: Advocacy · Art and design · History · London · People · Podcast · Rolling interview · Style · Women
Podcast only: Theatre Review – Pedal Pusher
July 16th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Pedal Pusher is a play that follows three cyclists — Jan Ullrich, Marco Pantani and Lance Armstrong — in the most dramatic recent era of professional cycle sport: from the young prodigy Jan Ullrich winning the Tour in 1997, the doping scandals of 1998, Armstrong’s conquest of cancer and ending with Pantani’s exile from the [...]
Tags: Bicycle messengers · Events · History · Literature · London · Podcast · Politics · Sport · Tour de France
No Bike Week: What happened?
June 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment
A report on No Bike Week, in which a handful of courageous cyclists agree to abstain from two wheels for seven days. Find out what happened. And to read how the No Bike Week meme is evolving into something more akin to a direct action protest, check out No Cycle Day over at Crap [...]
Tags: Advocacy · London · Podcast · Tour de France
Radiocycle
June 2nd, 2009 · No Comments
The Bike Show emerges from its late spring hibernation into the bright sunlight of the summer season. This week’s show features a ride south from the Resonance FM studio to the southern limit of the station’s 5km FM broadcast signal at the Herne Hill Velodrome. With guests James Wilson, lecturer in radio at Glasgow Metropolitan [...]
Tags: London · Podcast · Rolling interview · Science
16 March 2009: End of season finale – a bike pop epic
March 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment
In the last of the current season we drop in on a police bicycle auction to pick up a bargain. Plus a bike pop epic from the Grave Architects (pictured above) and we hear from Jo Upton, presenter of Bike Love, a bicycling radio show in Sydney, Australia.
Play on links below. Other file formats (e.g. [...]
Tags: Bicycle music · London · People · Podcast
London cyclists in monkey attacks
February 26th, 2009 · 3 Comments
London’s cyclists have plenty to contend with whether it’s deadly lorries and trucks, bendy-buses, white van man or suicidal pedestrians stepping out without looking. But now there is a violent cyclist-hating rollerskating monkey impersonator on the loose on our city streets. MovingTarget has the full story and the London Fixed Gear and Single Speed Forum [...]
Tags: Bicycle messengers · London · Road safety
23 February 2009: Bicycle Polo and No Bike Week
February 23rd, 2009 · 11 Comments
Bicycle polo. It’s the latest sensation that’s sweeping the nation. After an account of bicycle polo played with Hungarian counts in 1934 from Patrick Leigh Fermour’s classic Between the Woods and the Water, we travel to De Beauvoir Town to find out how the game is being played in 2009. The European Hard Court Bicycle [...]
Tags: Fixed wheel · London · Podcast · Sport
16 February 2009: Cycling and the recession
February 17th, 2009 · 3 Comments
With the UK mired deep in recession, unemployment on the rise, the value of the pound going down and consumer confidence at an all time low, we ask what effect this is having on the cycling business. We hear from the owners of two of London’s new breed of bicycle boutiques (Tour de Ville and [...]
Tags: Bicycle messengers · Bicycle music · England · Gear · London · People · Podcast · Politics · Rolling interview · Style
London cycle hire scheme – the lowdown
February 12th, 2009 · 12 Comments
An accident of geography means that, official speaking, I’m a Lambeth Cyclist but I’m a Southwark Cyclist at heart, not least because of the dynamic Barry Mason, the quirky Rob Ainsley, the luminous Rebecca Lack and the feisty Ann Warren. I can even see the Southwark-Lambeth ‘county line’ from my doorstep. So I was delighted [...]
Tags: Advocacy · England · London · Politics · Road safety
City of London: Cyclist traffic casualty statistics
November 1st, 2008 · No Comments
I previously wrote about last months’ City of London Police’s recent Road Safety Forum. I mentioned some statistics that were presented by Sergeant Alan Rickwood. Sergeant Ringwood was kind enough to send me his slides afterwards, and I can share them here.
Tags: London · Road safety · Rolling interview


