“I hate that the bicycle is made out to be something political. I have stated here before, if automobiles ran on pixie dust and had zero carbon emissions, I would still ride a bicycle. I am a cyclist, and riding a bicycle is a love and a passion.” –Dave Moulton
“Cycling provides economic benefit in terms of improved public health, reduced levels of traffic congestion and greenhouse gas emissions, as well as reductions in expenditure on transport fuel. These benefits accrue most readily when the bicycle is used as a substitute for car journeys.” –Cycling Promotion Fund
Get together and have some fun, or stick it in your bum. Time to speedlink…
It’s not that I’m short on ideas for things to write about, I’m just short on ideas on finding time to write…
Time hasn’t started running backwards since my last effort (at least, not noticeably), so it must be safe for me to speedlink…
Time hasn’t started running backwards since my last effort (at least, not noticeably), so it must be safe for me to speedlink…
I haven’t had any paper cuts since my last effort, so it must still be safe for me to speedlink…
Could it be that this newfangled bicycle thing isn’t quite as newfangled as we thought?
A year on and ‘Treadly and Me’ is still here-who’d have thunk it? In the 243 posts since this blog started on 1 January 2006 I’ve avoided blogging about the blog, so perhaps you’ll excuse this one indulgence…
In August I made an entry called How To Steal a Bike, prompted by a couple of films on the web showing people ignoring someone stealing a bike right before their eyes. In the discussion that followed I suggested a possible approach for witnesses to a suspected bike theft: simply shouting Oi, that’s my bike
might be enough to see-off a thief. However for reasons of personal safety I didn’t think this was an entirely foolproof method.
Comments on the topic went quiet until last week when Paul from Adelaide recounted his largely unsuccessful attempt to use this approach. Feeling that the story shouldn’t be hidden away in the comments, I’ve asked Paul to go back and start at the beginning for this guest entry. You may not agree with what Paul did—you may even think him reckless or that he brought a bad outcome on himself. Maybe. Regardless it stands as a warning: your bike is replaceable, your life is not.
–T&M.
Making video recordings of staged bike thefts is starting to become popular…
For the bike commuter, getting a new job is great but raises the problem of finding new secure bike parking and end of ride facilities.
Police and cyclists seem to be “at war” in New York City. In Melbourne the relationship is fine.