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Funding bike facilities

Leave a Comment Posted by on May 29, 2011

In a comment on Leicester on a Saturday evening JPR said: what do the authorities say, is there no way to privatise a project that will build and maintain such schemes… cos the council ain’t gonna do it are they Funding anything is very difficult when the costs and benefits are not aligned. There are plenty of [...]

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What we want to see

1 Comment Posted by on February 18, 2011

The recent heated debates here have highlighted a number of issues for me. One of issues continues to surprise me and that is the reactions by people in Britain to Dutch cycle facilities. We spent two weeks on holiday in the Netherlands when our sons were much smaller. That holiday stands out in our family as one [...]

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Grander Vision Living

Leave a Comment Posted by on February 11, 2011

Two things that on the surface are entirely disconnected with cycling have got me thinking about cycling (I know sad isn’t it but my brain likes to connect things together and sometimes I let it). The first comes from last night I was speaking to a room full of women, one of the Ladies meetings [...]

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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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Do It For The Children

9 Comments Posted by on January 11, 2011

Following an impassioned post by David Hembrow in  Stop the Child Murder Karl has written Do It For The Children in which he notes: Now the killer fact: In the UK, providing your child doesn’t have an inherited / genetically based disease (congenital defects, child cancers, etc), then the thing that is most likely to kill [...]

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It is just like London

Leave a Comment Posted by on January 10, 2011

A phrase about the Leicester Critical Mass on Girls on Cogs » Leicester’s Monster Mass made me laugh: The aim  to encourage more cyclists onto our streets until Leicester gets to the level that London is at now I laughed for two reasons. One is an old family joke. Many, many years ago my brother and [...]

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The attitude towards cycling infrastructure varies with its quality.

7 Comments Posted by on November 29, 2010

The attitude towards cycling infrastructure varies with its quality is an old post by David Hembrow but well worth reading and watching the video about the history of separated cycle infrastructure in the Netherlands. My view is that most British car drivers are totally unaware of how inadequate nearly all British cycle paths are. They [...]

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Tips wanted for cycling in the snow and ice

10 Comments Posted by on November 28, 2010

Following my post Bullitt cargobike in English snow I am looking to collect wisdom on cycling in British winter conditions where there is snow and ice about. There are plenty of films on youtube showing ordinary people cycling through snow, even blizzards in the Netherlands and Copenhagen. However, things are somewhat different in the UK: I [...]

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Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space: The Dutch ThinkBike project in DC

1 Comment Posted by on November 18, 2010

I have never been to Washington DC and so don’t know the places they are talking about BUT Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space: The Dutch ThinkBike project in DC sounds very sensible. I only wish places in the UK would invite experts from the Netherlands or Copenhagen to our cities to give us some advice. [...]

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First cargobike?

3 Comments Posted by on September 27, 2010

On being first! My LarryVsHarry Bullitt Clockwork is not only my first “proper” cargobike but I think it is proving to be much more significant than that. It seems that for nearly everyone around Syston and wider Leicester it is the first cargobike they have ever seen.  I find this strange as we have seen, [...]

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