Notes & References
…be distributed upon this side among our own people.” He thinks Congress should come to the rescue of the hat trade and “pass a law compelling every bicycle fiend to…
Continue Reading…be distributed upon this side among our own people.” He thinks Congress should come to the rescue of the hat trade and “pass a law compelling every bicycle fiend to…
Continue Reading…cycleway network. Where did he go wrong? Why does Houten in the Netherlands have such high cycle usage, and Stevenage have such low usage? Houten underpass. Pic by Amsterdamize.com There…
Continue Reading…followers to notice the @ messages. My goal was to try and get Kickstarter to take notice by getting mentions in news sites, sites crawled by Google News. By asking…
Continue Reading…they? But apart from pneumatic tyres, ball bearings, and the roads… COMMANDO: Lightweight steel tubing. XERXES: Chain driven differential gears. COMMANDOS: Huh? Heh? Huh… COMMANDO #2: Dust-free highways. Tractors. Automobile…
Continue Reading…wide and separated bike paths in the Netherlands, and in other bike-friendly countries, are made with these red stones. Why is cycling popular in the Netherlands: infrastructure or 100+ years…
Continue Reading…the suffragette movement. Part of the fight for women’s rights was featured in The Wheels of Chance, a comic novel by author and noted cyclist H. G. Wells. His hero…
Continue Reading…road knowing there would be no cars coming along the other way. This made me very happy. Roads are for people, not just for people in motor cars. A chapter…
Continue Reading…the use of his motorways. As well as commissioning Beeching’s infamous report he also commissioned the Buchanan Report of 1963, one of the most influential – and damaging – reports…
Continue Reading…to die in one,” said H. G. Wells in 1901.[1] When the use of stagecoaches tailed off thanks to competition from railways, Britain’s expensive turnpikes went through a period of…
Continue Reading…and is nestled on the French Riviera, close to Nice. Since its Monte Carlo casino opened in 1863 it has been a magnet for high-society and well-to-do ne’er do wells….
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