Learning to ride

Step 1: Throw away the training wheels…

Envy-inducing

Risky behaviour?

This study Risk of injury for bicycling on cycle tracks versus in the street, argues that "the injury risk of bicycling on [physically separated] cycle tracks is less than bicycling in streets. The construction of cycle tracks should not be discouraged." Time to whip across to chainguard and see what response that gets.

Regardless, selection and standardised use of bike lane colour turns out to be pretty important.

Meanwhile, Cycling in the City of London isn't getting much safer [twitterer]

Hack me

Not the comfy chair!

Don't fear riding a bicycle, fear sitting in that chair [twitterer]

Sewers

Interesting presentation, Roads, casualties and public health: The open sewers of the 21st Century (or it would be if I could get it to work properly!) [twitterer]

Cam head

Just when I thought I'd get a helmet cam for a bit of a laugh, it goes and gets all serious on me! Case in point: record your bike ride as evidence.

BSO

Did anyone pick up a $149 duallie from ALDI a few weeks back? Still plenty of stock left at my local outlet…not rushing in for one myself.

Awarding

Nominations for 2010 Australian Bicycling Achievement Awards now open

I'm over xtranormal videos

Can I go riding?

Brave Ricardo

Bold Ricardo Neis who deliberately ploughed his car through a critical mass ride is "very shaken by the whole situation, stressed and not able to work". Not unlike the people he tried to kill. [twitterer]

Scofflaw? Really?

Cyclelicious wonders: "Do you really want to push the scofflaw cyclist off of his bike and behind the wheels of a car?"

Doctor's orders

Roadies should be stay-at-homeies.

Interfering

Says @exframebuilder, "WTF get hit by a car, get cited for Interfering with Traffic".

Skill

Bike drifting. I don't get it, but I respect the skills. [twitterer]

Talkin' it up

Freewheelers talk about their bikes. [twitterer]

Pedal post

Australia Post's postie bike never completely went away, but now it's set to make a big comeback.

Myth

David Hembrow notes:

One of those myths that won't die is that the Netherlands has a high rate of cycling because the price of petrol ("gas" to Americans, "benzine" in The Netherlands) is high. This seems particularly to be suggested by Americans, because the price of petrol in their country is so low, and so is the cycling rate.

BEHOOVING MOVING argues that "snobbery stopped people from cycling, long before cars did". [twitterer]

Advertising

Here are some cycling billboards you won't see anytime soon. [twitterer]