Ron Arad Two Nuns Bicycle from paul denton on Vimeo.
15 January 2012  |  | category: architecture, cycling, gravity life, transport, travel  | comments are closed  …and a number of other shots looked familiar (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» Combing my hair…. I spotted Encliffe Park…: .) Cambridge, Massachusetts has come up with a creative way to support its increasingly bike-loving populace and to encourage people to opt for green transport. The city has installed three bicycle repair stations around town. Cyclists can drop by the spots in Harvard Square and make minor repairs or inflate their tires. Cambridge’s transportation manager says the city was inspired by MIT, which already had bike repair stations. Cambridge, MA Installs DIY Bike Repair Stations | Geekosystem. Rosscott, Inc. » Archive » The System 453: Venn Bikes. Rosscott, Inc. » Archive » The System 433: Cycling Terrains. In other parts of the world that aren’t San Francisco (what? There are other places?) it is not unusual to come out to find someone has left you a little present. Seat covers as leaflets area common objects. photo by Lüca Pradella This is a phenomenon that is beginning to be seen here in San Francisco. After seeing a few of these in the Mission the other morning, I was surprised to see them all over the waterfront. Any bicycle that was stationary when the crew came through was given the treatment. The red, nylon covers were produced and [ continue reading It’s All Covered ] Here’s a slice of life in Montreal. The mournful sight of bikes rusting away in the snowbank. There’s lots of reasons to bike in Montreal. The bike lanes pretty much go everywhere, and there’s nowhere to park a car anyway. Plus it’s greener, and saves money. So lots of people bike. Some ride all winter. Snow and sleet be dammed. Here on the Plateau, people live in these 100 year old buildings with precarious external staircases. There’s no place in your tiny apartment for a bike even if you didn’t fall to your death trying to take it [ continue reading Wintering Bikes ] What rattled his cage? Surprise, surprise, at the end of the day it’s the clubs’ fault. Funny how clubs are dismissed so easily in statistics thrown out before coffee and biscuits. It’s only ‘one club’ after all, and it wouldn’t do to call it, ” a minimum of three or four hundred young swimmers, a hundred masters swimmers, and forty or fifty water-polo players – per year!”, would it? A positive note for the assembled with the ASA ‘dissing’ its membership and then, “mine’s a custard cream”. In parts of London facilities have been made difficult to use with [ continue reading The Leisure Review: March 2011 – WTF! ] 21 March 2011 | | category: cycling, energy, film, Sport? what sport?, weather | comments are closed VCA 2010 RACE RUN from changoman on Vimeo. Thanks Gareth 8 March 2011 | | category: can't make it up!, cycling, film, gravity life, transport, travel | comments are closed As part of its Olympic push, the city of London pledge to get 2 million more people in England playing sports and exercising. The New York Times reports today that: Figures issued in December by Sport England, the governing body for community sports, indicated that participation at the 3×30 level had increased by 123,000 since 2007-8, when the one million baseline was established. But that number increased by only 8,000 in the last year. At the current rate, the goal of one million new participants would not be reached in 2012-13 as hoped but more than [ continue reading Surprise: 2012 Olympics Are Not Making the Brits Exercise ] SEE ME SAVE ME It’s nearly two years since Eilidh was run over by a truck that failed to see her. Her mum Heather has been working with their local Member of European Parliament to try and get an EU declaration signed to get HGVs fitted with sensors and cameras to remove their blind spot. 4000 people, mostly unprotected road users such as cyclists, motorcyclists and pedestrians are killed each year in Europe because of HGV blind spots. This declaration needs to be signed to be signed by half of the 736 MEPs before it lapses on [ continue reading Eilidh Cairns – Campaign – See Me Save Me ] 4 February 2011 | | category: cycling, scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, transport, travel | comments are closed РАЭ-54 с борта НЭС “Академик Фёдоров” from North Pole on Vimeo. 22 January 2011 | | category: blue wobbly stuff, can't make it up!, one world, photography | comments are closed Now this is interesting! Who would have thought that this could happen even if, as we know, the ibex can do it. One of the respondents says it’s so that the ibex can benefit from minerals being leeched from the rock. Copenhagen – City of Cyclists from Copenhagenize on Vimeo. Welcome to our temporary website, deliberately simple, purely functional. It will improve visually later! This webpage enables free downloading of the updated ‘press pack’-style documentation that originally appeared here in 2008 under the name “Hillsborough For ‘Dummies’: Facts Behind The Disaster”. The updated version consists of several documents, all of which can be downloaded as separate PDF files, or as a combined package in one easy click. We updated and changed in order to appeal to a much wider audience and the concern was that the original name would not sit well with the publishers of the “…For Dummies” [ continue reading The Hillsborough Football Disaster: Context & Consequences ] 8 December 2010 | | category: scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, Sheffield, Sport? what sport? | comments are closed A report commissioned by the RAC Foundation has stated that the cost of switching off all speed cameras in the UK would be up to 800 additional people killed or seriously injured every year, the BBC reports. The report’s author Professor Richard Allsop, emeritus professor of transport studies at University College London, also suggested that the popular perception of the cameras being there primarily to raise money is a myth with just £4 from every £60 fine going to the Treasury. RAC report also gives the lie to the revenue-raising "myth" read more (CLICK HERE [ continue reading UK-wide camera switch-off would mean 800 more people killed or seriously injured ] ‘Ron Fawcett, Rock Athlete’, the autobiography of the famed Yorkshire climber written by Ron and outdoors journalist Ed Douglas, is the winner of the 2010 Boardman Tasker Prize for mountain literature, it was announced at the Kendal Mountain Festival on Friday. Described the the chairman of the judges, Ian Smith as ‘an engaging portrait of an unassuming yet quite remarkable climber told with humility and frankness’, the book tells Ron’s life story from his childhood in a small Yorkshire village through to his pioneering role in climbing in the 1970s. The judges praised Fawcett’s candour and also commended Ed [ continue reading Fawcett Book Lands Boardman Tasker Prize ] Red Bull handle the production of film documenting journey across Scotland and the Isle of Skye The long awaited sequel to Danny MacAskill’s debut Inspried Bicycle’s video is now online and this time around has big budget Red Bull cinematography behind the production. MacAskill’s debut web edit has now been viewed over 21 million times on [ continue reading Danny MacAskill ‘Way Back Home’ – cycling but not as we know it ] I dislike conflict. This is a questionable characteristic for a barrister. As a result there’s a sombre tone in this week’s post, as I’m tiptoeing precariously close to a shouting match. The Guardian recently posted this article asking whether the law does enough to protect cyclists. As expected, the comments express some fruity road-related read rage. At the same time there’s a strong debate in the cycle blogosphere on what can be done to increase the numbers of people cycling (see ibikelondon vs Carlton Reid, for example). Lots of people talk about ‘strict liability’ as one possible solution, and [ continue reading ‘Strict liability’ and legal protection for cyclists « UKcyclerules ] 16 November 2010 | | category: cycling, scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, the state we're in, transport, travel | comments are closed Aptly posed against a Waltham Forest Council ‘quality environment’ litter bin and a car in a pavement parking bay, this intriguing ‘demon’ machine belongs to a member of that tiny weird fringe group known as ‘Waltham Forest cyclists’. It shows that Walthamstow High Street is a place where you can safely leave your cycling gloves tucked behind your saddle without any danger of them being stolen. Because if you interfere with this bicycle Satan will steal your soul. You will then be transported by devils to a hellish underworld known as ‘forty miles of prize-winning cycle lanes and quiet [ continue reading Walthamstow bicycle chic ] I decided I would report this morning’s incident (see my immediately preceding blog post). Since it has required, and no doubt will require, a substantial investment of my time I thought I would spend the further time to report here how I get on. I reported this morning to a central number, gave very outline details and was told the matter could be taken further only if I reported to a Metropolitan Police Station and filled in the form applicable to road rage. I was also asked to take in the video evidence. I have just returned from visiting [ continue reading The Metropolitan Police. Do they take cyclists seriously? ] On the whole, though, it’s almost a brilliant idea. But there are two obvious problems. The first is that, by being yoked to the rack system, the bicycle, this ultimate symbol of mobility and freedom for the masses, effectively becomes public transport: it doesn’t leave from precisely where you are and doesn’t arrive at exactly where you want to be. Unless you work as a bicycle rack attendant, the very point of the bicycle is somewhat defeated. More worrying, though, is this. The whole scheme is sponsored by Barclays Bank and it wants you to know about it. That’s [ continue reading Cycling proficiency with James May – May makes some good points about cycling ] |  
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