"Was almost run over by a Right To Lifer, that could have potentially been ironic." --@rosewal (Twitter)
You know it's been a while between posts when your own mother starts chipping you about not updating your blog...
"There is overwhelming evidence when children walk or cycle to school they are better off physically and in terms of their social and emotional wellbeing" --Todd Harper, VicHealth.
"A three hour bike ride means three hours of mental refreshment; it would take extreme concentration to achieve that by meditation or some like method." --Dave Moulton
"We have a wonderful network of over 25,000 miles of cycleways in the UK, with smooth tarmac and direct routes to the places we want to go. All we have to do is get the other people using those cycleways in their motor vehicles to do so safely and properly." -Regulator, Cyclechat [via @
John_the_Monkey]
"I just feel so free and just like I'm lovin' every minute of life and it's...it helps. It's therapy for me, y'know pedallin'" --Steven Marmo, The New York Times
"There is a deeply pleasing randomness about the campus cyclists, as though one morning university officials had assigned a bicycle to every member of the Stanford community, come as you are, without considering for a moment matters of fit - or fitness." --Verlyn Klinkenborg, The New York Times
"It is not quite true, but none the less often repeated, that the bicycle is the only technology with no downside...But they are near-perfect working machines." --Stephen Bayley, guardian.co.uk
"Seventy five percent of all journeys in Britain are under five miles in length; half are under two miles; and thirty two per cent under a mile... Of all journeys undertaken by car, sixty one per cent are under five miles in length; and a similar proportion of all short journeys currently take place in cars." --Bikes Not Fumes, p. 11, CTC 1991