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Sympathy for the…

cyclepages — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:12:40 +0000

It’s not often I find myself sympathising with a Tory but I had a chuckle and a rare moment of empathy when David Cameron had his bike stolen. Thankfully he had a tabloid newspaper to help him hunt it down and they found it for him.

Hmm, I think I’ll call the News of the World about that old Specialized I had stolen a few years ago…

Bristol named ‘Cycling City’

cyclepages — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:41:17 +0000

Bristol awarded £11.4 million and becomes the UK’s first ‘cycling city’ (BBC, Guardian, Times). Plans include improved cycle networks, factilities, and training/education. 11 other towns become ‘Cycling Demonstration Towns’. Read the press release here.

The Bristol Cycle Campaign barely seem to have noticed. The city council are obviously pleased.

FIX PUSH

cyclepages — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:13:09 +0000

Fix Push. It’s the future…

World Track Cycling Championships

cyclepages — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:00:28 +0000

Looking forward to the BBC covering the World Track Cycling Championships in Manchester, including some prime time TV coverage no less…

Politics & Cycling don’t mix

cyclepages — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:50:41 +0000

‘Bike Menace’ David Cameron caught by the Mirror cycling the wrong way up a one way street. Nice ‘story‘. Also BBC, Google News. More level headed view from Cycling Weekly.

Investment in London Cycling

cyclepages — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:05:03 +0000

The Guardian reports on plans to transform cycling in London with £400 million to be spent on new routes to encourage people to get on their bikes. Apparently the scheme is based on a similar plan already underway in Aylesbury.

RIP Sheldon Brown

cyclepages — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 11:51:26 +0000

Sadly, internet cycling legend Sheldon Brown died recently. As reported in the Boston Globe, BikeMagic, Wired, VeloNews.

Wooden Bike

cyclepages — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 11:47:28 +0000

We’ve seen bikes made from wood before, but how about entirely from wood!

Crazy Cycling Clips

cyclepages — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:32:54 +0000

Check out this clip on YouTube which claims to be of a cyclist weaving through traffic in Mexico at high speed. Truly incredible – it seems almost impossible that it can be someone on a bike doing that. But then I also saw this clip of a similarly insane cycle courier race in London.

It turns out both were made by Lucas Brunelle and you can view these and other videos on his own website. Also worth checking out the photos for (amongst other things) a couch bike and an amphibious bike. There should be more people like Lucas in the world. Life would be more interesting, if maybe a little more dangerous!

Cycling in the News

cyclepages — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:28:01 +0000

Hard to find cycle news that isn’t TDF related but here goes. The Moscow News writes about the difficulties of cycling in Moscow, whilst the NY Times reports on a new way to measure the power output of a bike. Meanwhile Paris has launched the worlds biggest city bike rental scheme making over 10,000 bikes available from 750 stations around the capital.

In Maine a new law is passed to protect cyclists whilst also tightening helmet laws – and strangely providing equal rights for cyclists at drive through windows!

Finally a few different papers seem to have picked up a story about bikes made from bamboo (also here). If you want to buy one check out the website here. Apparently bamboo is as strong as steel, flexible, and an ideal material for bike frames.