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Speedlinking 31 March 2011
“Wearing a fluorescent jacket doesn’t mean that you no longer need to look where you are going.” –road.cc
Dangerous cyclists and expectations
Another problem with dangerous cycling being seen as the norm is that inexperienced cyclists may think that breaking road rules is a prerequisite to being taken ‘seriously’.
Speedlinking 9 March 2011
“This is part of the beauty of cycling – all it really takes to be a cycling advocate is to ride your bike. The more people there are out there riding bikes, the more cycling benefits.” –BikeSnobNYC
Speedlinking 11 August 2010
“In a a properly designed Traditional City, most people don’t need bicycles.” –Energy Bulletin
Speedlinking 4 June 2010
You know it’s been a while between posts when your own mother starts chipping you about not updating your blog…
Speedlinking 4 December 2009
“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
Speedlinking 21 July 2009
“Cycling which was yesterday the fad of the few is to-day the pastime of the many; it has brought wealth to the wayside town and village, has given a new industry to the country, and by taking the place of more expensive forms of locomotion has facilitated in various ways the carrying on of trade.” –The Lancet, July 11, 1896.
Speedlinking 7 March 2009
“You learned a long time ago that it doesn’t matter how light or fast, just get on that bike.” –ORbike
Speedlinking 10 February 2009
“We take for granted the dominance of the car in our transport system but the might-is-right attitude is downright undemocratic, and proclaims that as a society we believe someone in a $40,000 car is more important than a person on a $200 bike.” –Debra Mayrhofer, New Matilda
Unwrap the cotton wool and get real
If you wrap your kids in cotton wool, you aren’t really doing them any favours…
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