Google have now added route planning on their maps for bicycles. I have missed that for some time, since I always have hit Google Maps to see where I’m going and then started to plan my route. But only to find out that I couldn’t get Google to make a route that I would...
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East 2010, 4-9th of March
I just got the head up for this, too bad that I’m up north these days so I can’t join.
EAST 2010, running from 4 to 9 of March 2010 in London, which will take people on a tour of east London venues by bike.
Explore...
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Reclaim the Road women’s bike ride
On March 7, the LCC presents the annual women’s bike ride to mark International Women’s Day. Female-focused, but not exclusively for women, the ride will lead you around some of London’s best routes, encompassing landmarks which have particular significance to the fairer sex.
route –...
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Bike week 2010
There had been some confusion about when the Bike Weeks when be in 2010. I think that bikeweek.org.uk have now set it in stone, 19-27 of June 2010.
This year...
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The Firefly bicycle light
I’m all for the idea of making us cyclist more safe on the roads. But this one is only a gimmick.
The Firefly bicycle light uses a passive Infrared sensor...
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How to promote cycling
Over on copenhagenize.com they have post about how other cities are promoting cycling.
I totally agree with them that the way New York are “promoting” cycling in their ad Look,...
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The birth of the bike
Over on British Pathe they have a film from 1937 called the The birth of the bike.
M/S of a lady on an old-fashioned ‘hobby horse’ bicycle, she is...
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Potholes are worse this year thanks to the freezing weather.
The UK have been lucky to have a proper winter this year and a bit of last year. But there is a side effect to the beautiful snow is...
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Cycling in the snow
I have done my fair share of cycling in the snow and snow storms where I couldn’t see further than 50 metres ahead. Quite often I had to stop...
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What a waste of a young life
A SCHOOLGIRL killed in an accident on her way home from school was riding a dangerous and unfit bicycle at the time, an inquest was told.
Sadly this is...
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Pot holes
So we managed a week or so of snow and icy roads here in London. Now comes the next menace to us cyclist.
Pot holes !!!
Just as the BBC article,...
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New York New York
I hope that I’m allowed a bit or artistic licensing from old blue eyes, and re-write his song New York, New York.
“If they can make it there, Then...
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