“I received the best compliment the other day since I became a cyclist…someone came up to me and asked if I rode a bike. I was ecstatic. I have been trying for years to not look like a cyclist.” –mk at momentum
A quick whip-around of news reports and blog posts on the subject of Ride to Work Day.
“What’s most enjoyable is sailing past queues of traffic in the rush hour!” — Bernard Sudlow
“I might be showing my age, but when I was a kid, we all biked to school, to sports, to play with friends – almost everywhere, really.” –Jill Merrin in the Illawarra Mercury
“Fat-busting but not wallet-busting, the humble bicycle is an increasingly popular choice of transport. Around 130m bikes rolled off production lines in 2007 and even more are set to be made this year.” –The Economist
Two Melbourne cyclists died in road collisions last Thursday. Both deaths were avoidable.
“The premise that cyclists’ behavior somehow voids their right to sharing the road is indefensible at face value. ‘Well officer I thought it was OK to hit this cyclists because several blocks back I saw another run a red light’ is not something anyone could defend.” –TheWashCycle
Yep, speedlinking again.
‘Treadly and Me’ spluttered inauspiciously into life on 1 January 2006. So as the year draws to a close, this provides me with the excuse to ruminate on what was and what may be…in this little corner of the web, at least.
The “Copenhagen-style” bike lanes in Swanston Street are nowhere near as safe as you might think.