Portland’s über-cool bike shop Velo Cult will be hosting me for a talk on SUNDAY 28th June. Entry is free and is unticketed so just turn up. After the talk a select number of books will be available for sale. […]
Continue ReadingThis weekend sees the annual staging of the Monaco grand Prix, one of motor-racing’s blue riband events. This is organised by the Automobile Club de Monaco. Before it was an automobile club it was a bicycle club, one of many […]
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Continue ReadingI’ve just come across this wonderful quote from Thomas Hay Sweet, author of the 1897 book Social transformations of the Victorian age: a survey of court and country. Bicycles feature in the book, of course. Sweet – who wrote under […]
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Continue ReadingFollowing my US book tour in early 2015 I’m now booked to appear at a load of forthcoming events where I’ll give slide presentations. If you want me to give a talk at your club/society/school/bar mitzvah please get in touch […]
Continue ReadingI often stress that I’d love to see Dutch-style infrastructure in the UK but because I usually add that infrastructure alone will not bring about mass cycling in the UK I’m often taken to task by fellow cycle advocates, on […]
Continue ReadingThe idea for London’s Skycycle, an elevated cycleway, is nothing new. There was one in Pasadena at the end of the 1890s, with plans for it to slope down to Los Angeles. Similarly, the Thames Deckway, a mooted £600m floating […]
Continue Reading“If a fast motor-car sees a man, woman, or child, a nursemaid with a perambulator, a dog, or a hen in its path, it makes a loud, rude, and alarming noise to tell the man, woman, child, nursemaid, dog, or […]
Continue Reading“A far higher standard of care should be demanded of the motorist by reason of his having brought upon the public roads a lethal instrument of great mobility and power,” a famous judge didn’t say in the 1920s. Didn’t say because […]
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