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Get Britain Cycling. The report we’ve been waiting for

Post date
2013-04-25
Posted in Cycling, Other stuff

The summary report produced by the APPCG was published today, simply titled ‘Get Britain Cycling’. Here’s a summary (of the summary), and my thoughts.

Strict Liability – an idiot’s guide

Post date
2013-04-22
Posted in Cycling, Slider

Cycle Law Scotland recently suggested that introducing strict liability into Scottish civil law would be nice. Various newspapers then managed to completely misunderstand what that would mean. Here’s a worked example.

Pedal on Parliament 2 – the return of the cyclists

Post date
2013-04-17
Posted in Cycling, Other stuff

Pedal on Parliament 2 starts at 3pm in the Edinburgh Meadows on Sunday 13th May. Here’s why it’s a grand day out for all the family.

London Edinburgh London via Morpheus

Post date
2013-04-14
Posted in Cycling

Without getting overly prophetic, today marked the start of a Great Journey. In July John and I will be cycling from London to Edinburgh and back to London in six days. On a Circe Morpheus half-recumbent-half-upright tandem. Groovy.

Versatile

Post date
2012-08-10
Posted in Cycling

A cross-country run in the Fuego turns into a rather more crosscountry experience. See what I did there? As in ‘across a country’ and then ‘off road’? Never mind…

James Darby – killed by a car door

Post date
2012-08-09
Posted in Cycling, Other stuff

An desperately sad strory, where James Darby was killed by a woman opening her car door and forcing him under a bus.

Wet ‘n’ Wild

Post date
2012-07-03
Posted in Cycling

Playing with the Fuego in the rain. It’s basically a big pair of wellies…

BMW Resistance

Post date
2012-06-29
Posted in Cycling

The Fuego was hit head on by a BMW on Thursday afternoon. Happily it was all at fairly slow speeds, the apologetic driver and a witness stopped and it was only a 2 minute hobble from home.

Communications Data Bill

Post date
2012-06-19
Posted in Cycling, Other stuff, Uncategorized

Another non-cycling one I’m afraid. You might have spotted an article on BBC online a few days back regarding the Communications Data Bill, which our beloved government have just published in draft form. This got all sorts of exciting debate going for a little while, as you might’ve guessed from the bill’s informal name of […]

It started with an old man

Post date
2012-06-13
Posted in Cycling

Today marks a glorious day. The day when, after 46 days ahead, Ade’s 01:41 record on the Pollockshaw’s Road Sprint was crushed by a storming 01:36. It’s not a long segment at just over 800m, nor is it hugely uphill. It is, however, now mine. Let me tell you how it came about. It started […]