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No Bike Week: What happened?

June 8th, 2009 · No Comments

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 [...]

 
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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 [...]

 
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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.
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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 [...]

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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 [...]

 
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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 [...]

 
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Tags: Bicycle messengers · Bicycle music · England · Gear · London · People · Podcast · Politics · Rolling interview · Style

London cycle hire scheme - the lowdown

February 12th, 2009 · 8 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 [...]

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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.

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Tags: London · Road safety · Rolling interview

20 October 2008: Inventing the perfect folding bicycle

October 20th, 2008 · 3 Comments

The latest on moves by the London Assembly to reduce the dangers posed by lorries to cyclists. Plus an extended talk by Andrew Ritchey, inventor of the Brompton, the folding miracle that is the toast of London’s bicycle-train commuters. The talk was given over the summer at the iFest 08 in Barcelona. It tells the [...]

 
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Tags: Art and design · Gear · London · People · Podcast

13 October 2008: Emergency - Lorries Killing Cyclists

October 14th, 2008 · 5 Comments

After a summer of fun on two wheels, we turn to more serious matters. The entire show this week is devoted to the problem of lorries killing cyclists in London. With Barry Mason of Southwark Cyclists and Cynthia Barlow, chairwoman of RoadPeace, the national campaign against deaths on Britain’s roads. We also hear from London [...]

 
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Tags: Advocacy · Bicycle messengers · Bicycle music · London · Podcast · Politics · Road safety · Rolling interview

City of London Police: Road Safety Forum

October 14th, 2008 · 11 Comments

This morning I attended the Road Safety Forum organised by the City of London police, at their Snow Hill police station, near Smithfield Market. It was a good meeting, well attended by a range of officers, including at a senior level, plus those responsible for implementation on the streets. There were also representation from Corporation [...]

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Tags: Advocacy · London · Road safety

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

October 7th, 2008 · 6 Comments

Nice to see the police setting an example. Today at 2.20pm on Webber Street, corner of Blackfriars Road, SE1.
For those who don’t know, this is an Advance Stop Line, a ’safe place’ for cyclists to wait at junctions. If it wasn’t filled with two tonnes of Plod, that is.
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Tags: Advocacy · Bicycle messengers · London · Road safety · Rolling interview

Superb BBC Radio 4 documentary about bike messengers in London

October 7th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Over the summer BBC Radio 4 aired a half-hour programme about life as a bicycle messenger here in London. First of all, what the programme does really well is convey the magic of daily cycling in London - the vistas, the skies, the sun, the wind and the rain, the secret places. This is something [...]

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Tags: Bicycle messengers · London · Rolling interview

27 September 2008: Bicycle Film Festival comes to town

September 27th, 2008 · 2 Comments

The Bicycle Film Festival comes to London from 1-5 October. Laura Fletcher is the BFF’s London ambassador and she previews a handful of highlights from the seven screenings at the Barbican Cinema plus all the parties, art shows, polo matches and roller-racing that make the Festival a veritable jamboree of bicycle culture. Plus a very [...]

 
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Tags: Advocacy · Art and design · Bicycle messengers · Bicycle music · England · Events · Film · London · Podcast · Politics · Rolling interview

CycleSafeLondon.com

September 26th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Two cyclists have been killed and another injured in collisions with lorries on the streets of London in the past week. This brings the unofficial total fatalities in 2008 to 8 or 9, depending on whether you count someone killed while wheeling their bike a cyclist or pedestrian. Whichever way, it’s 8 or 9 too [...]

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Tags: Advocacy · Events · London · Politics · Road safety

22 September 2008: Grant Petersen on overnight trips and a visit to London’s ‘anti-bike shop’

September 22nd, 2008 · 4 Comments


 
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Tags: Bicycle music · England · Gear · History · Italy · London · People · Podcast · Politics · Rides · Rolling interview · Sport · Style · Touring · United States

15 September 2008: Are cargo bikes the future of urban transport?

September 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Do the rising oil price, the growing concern about man-made climate change and breakthroughs in cycle design mean we’re on the verge of a pedal-powered cargo revolution? Discussing the past, present and future of cargo bikes and pedicabs is Leslie Wacker, a Chicago native who placed second in the cargo bike race at this year’s [...]

 
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Tags: Bicycle messengers · England · London · Podcast · Politics · Rolling interview · United States · Women

21 July 2008: Sublime Nights: Dunwich Dynamo 16 and S24O with Grant Peterson

July 21st, 2008 · 3 Comments

This year’s Dunwich Dynamo was perfect: a dry, moonlit night, a tail wind and a hot sunny morning on the beach. Around 500 people enjoyed the sixteenth edition of the classic British night ride that covers some 120 miles (190 kilometres) through north east London, Essex and Suffolk. But you don’t have to wait until [...]

 
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Tags: England · Events · London · People · Podcast · Rides · Touring · United States

14 July 2008: Vive Le Tour // Civilised Streets

July 14th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Celebrating Bastille Day and the first week of Le Tour De France plus a discussion of civilised streets with Louise Duggan, streets advisor at the UK’s Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE). Just six days until this year’s Dunwich Dynamo….
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Tags: Advocacy · Architecture · Environment · Events · France · London · Podcast · Rides · Rolling interview · Tour de France

7 July 2008: 50 Quirky Bike Rides

July 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment

A ride along the splendid London end of the Grand Union Canal with Rob Ainsley, London cyclist and author of 50 Quirky Bike Rides, a new book about weird and wonderful places to go on bicycles in England and Wales. We visit a canal that passes over a motorway and take advantage of a little [...]

 
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Tags: Bicycle messengers · Bicycle music · England · London · People · Podcast · Politics · Rides · Rolling interview · Touring