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Monthly Archives: January 2011

Getting ready to tour with a Bullitt cargobike

3 Comments Posted by on January 31, 2011

Tomorrow morning I am off on the nearest thing to a tour that I have done so far on my Bullitt cargobike. It is only 15 miles or so to Launde Abbey but I am staying there until Thursday. As Cycling Plus arrived today with a supplement about touring including guides about what bike to [...]

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#ride:10miles of healthy therapy

4 Comments Posted by on January 31, 2011

Life is tough and sad at the moment. I have tried different ways of coping in the past. They have not been generally successful. I guess my two most common responses are to eat and sleep (at least hide in bed). I have used those many times and it has been a key factor in accumulating [...]

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Common Concerns

1 Comment Posted by on January 30, 2011

At yesterday’s startup meeting of the Cycling Embassy of Great Britain there was a common thread to many (not all) of the people wanting high quality separated cycling infrastructure. They were parents, keen cyclists themselves but now with children feeling that it was no longer possible to imagine their children starting to ride on the [...]

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Traffic up

2 Comments Posted by on January 29, 2011

Pleased to see that traffic to 42bikes is up considerably. In fact January has had twice as many page views as any other month. In fact January 2011 has more than 1/3 of all the page views ever. I doubt my writing has suddenly improved so I choose to believe the growth comes from posting [...]

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A view of Leicester Critical Mass

7 Comments Posted by on January 28, 2011

I rushed into Leicester for my first Critical Mass this evening. I was a little late having had a funeral this afternoon but caught the mass close to the Curve. I was told afterwards that there were exactly 100 riders, they were very friendly and the reactions from pedestrians were positive. I didn’t hear or [...]

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Cyclists and Pedestrians failed by Leicester City Council

8 Comments Posted by on January 27, 2011

Back in November I wrote Bad road junctions #1 Leicester A607/A563 and said that I had emailed the appropriate people in Leicester City Council. I have now had a reply (apparently it was first sent on 5th January to the wrong email address). It includes this: Thank you for enquiring about pedestrian and cycle facilities at [...]

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Improved Cycling facilities: Birstall entrance to Watermead Park

2 Comments Posted by on January 27, 2011

Fantastic. A new entrance has been installed between Birstall and Watermewad Park (the entrance off Whites Lane). It is now passable by bike and even by my Bullitt cargobike. Not easily passable as the gap narrows to less than the width of my handlebars so it takes a bit of manhandling to get through. Still [...]

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Time to get ready?

3 Comments Posted by on January 26, 2011

It seems that within Parliament at least one group are trying to get ready for the future taking into account the reducing supply of fossil fuels. The All Party Parliamentary Group on Peak Oil and Gas have released a report on TEQs – A Policy Framework for Peak Oil and Climate Change. In it the [...]

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Getting confused in London #ride:8.64miles

2 Comments Posted by on January 25, 2011

This morning I 0cycled with Pete Philips from the President Hotel (somewhere in London, but I don’t really know where and I don’t recommend it so can’t be bothered to find where it is) to Methodist Church House on Boris Bikes. This evening after Methodist Council and after an extra meeting of a few tweeters [...]

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Multi-mode travel

5 Comments Posted by on January 24, 2011

This morning I had a very good journey to London for the 2 day Methodist Council meeting. It was a 6.8 mile ride to Leicester Station on the Birdy (average speed 11.5mph). With an hourly train service from Syston and the time of my London train this made riding the Birdy quicker than catching the [...]

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