Entries tagged "active transport"

Bike Shorts 23 Jun 2015

23 June 2015
"Road rules only work due to mutually assured destruction of vehicles and occupants. Which is why they're not protecting cyclists." –Byron Kidd (@tokyobybike)

Bike Shorts 22 May 2015

22 May 2015
"If you had said to me five years ago that bike tourism would be one of the catalysts to turn around the north-east, I would have basically laughed." –Barry Jarvis, Mayor of Dorset, Tasmania.

What is this high visibility madness?

21 October 2014

Where does it come from, this ridiculous push to put kids in high visibility clothing? The minuscule risk that might be eliminated by the wearing of hi viz is completely washed away by the health risks associated with discouraging active transport.

Bike Shorts 15 November 2011

15 November 2011

"We try to do rides that are somewhat audacious. If they were easy, it wouldn't be all that satisfying when you get to the finish." --rider, Seattle Randonneurs video

Bike Shorts 19 April 2010

19 April 2010

"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.

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