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The birth of the bike

Over on British Pathe they have a film from 1937 called the The birth of the bike. M/S of a lady on an old-fashioned ‘hobby horse’ bicycle, she is wearing a long dress and bonnet. C/U of the bottom of… Continue Reading →

Potholes are worse this year thanks to the freezing weather.

The UK have been lucky to have a proper winter this year and a bit of last year. But there is a side effect to the beautiful snow is the amount of potholes. The freezing weather ain’t the best for… Continue Reading →

Cycling in the snow

I have done my fair share of cycling in the snow and snow storms where I couldn’t see further than 50 metres ahead. Quite often I had to stop to remove the snow out of the wheels and away from… Continue Reading →

What a waste of a young life

A SCHOOLGIRL killed in an accident on her way home from school was riding a dangerous and unfit bicycle at the time, an inquest was told. Sadly this is a terrible way to remind you, but do check you and… Continue Reading →

Pot holes

So we managed a week or so of snow and icy roads here in London. Now comes the next menace to us cyclist. Pot holes !!! Just as the BBC article, Pothole and frozen pipe worries as ‘big freeze’ thaws,… Continue Reading →

New York New York

I hope that I’m allowed a bit or artistic licensing from old blue eyes, and re-write his song New York, New York. “If they can make it there, Then we make it anywhere, It’s up to you – New York,… Continue Reading →

Season to be merry

Since the bicycle is under the international Vienna Convention on Road Traffic (1968), a bicycle (or “cycle”, as referenced by the convention) is defined to be a vehicle and a cyclist is considered to be a driver. The argument that… Continue Reading →

Beauty and the Bike

Now this is a great project and a very uplifting short film, Beauty and the Bike. If they can get teenage girls to start to cycle again in Darlington, why not elsewhere here in the UK. They are right teenagers… Continue Reading →

LGV Cycle Safety – epetition response

Remember this epetition, ‘Cyclists THINK! Watch out for HGVs‘ (that I wrote about there, SillyCylist IV). I just got an email saying that the Prime Minister’s Office have now answered to it. The Government shares Ms Clegg’s concern about the… Continue Reading →

Pardo, a tricycle ?

Now this tricycle looks a bit mad in a good way. Instead of pedalling you have to kick/push with your legs to get the trike to move forward. It does looks fast and very suspensioned (if that is a word)… Continue Reading →

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