Roads Were Not Built For Cars

“Bother your biking crew, I’m half crazy, all for the sheer dread of you”

by carltonreid / on November 02, 2013 /

It’s 1893. Road locomotives, such as the newfangled motorcar, cannot be practically driven on the queen’s highway (they’re not street legal for another three years). The fastest thing on the roads is still the bicycle. But a dip in bicycling’s […]

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by carltonreid / on October 30, 2013 / tags ebook, flat design, landing page, marketing, wordpress

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by carltonreid / on October 30, 2013 / tags ebook selling, landing page, responsive, theme, wordpress

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by carltonreid / on October 30, 2013 / tags app, clean, ebook, flat landing

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by carltonreid / on October 29, 2013 / tags flatbook, wordpress

How Steel Grandpa won the arduous Tour of Sweden on a roadster with mudguards and pannier bags on the back

by carltonreid / on October 21, 2013 /

Lifelong cyclist Gustaf Håkansson was always up for a challenge. In 1951 the 66-year old submitted an entry for a new Swedish endurance bicycle race but was turned down by the organisers. Too old for a 1000-mile race, they said […]

Sempé’s brilliant cartoon strip about class, congestion, cars and bicycles

by carltonreid / on October 17, 2013 /

Jean-Jacques Sempé – France’s most celebrated cartoonist – likes bicycles, perhaps because one of his first jobs was delivering wine by bicycle through the rolling hills of the Gironde. He has drawn them many times, most famously for The New […]

Before he became a press baron the founder of the Daily Mail was editor of a bicycle magazine

by carltonreid / on October 14, 2013 /

1930s press baron Lord Beaverbrook said Alfred Harmsworth was “the greatest figure who ever strode down Fleet Street.” It might have been more accurate if Beaverbrook had said “rode down Fleet Street” for Harmsworth was an enthusiastic cyclist, familiar with […]

Separated “bicycle roads” for London were proposed in 1898 by the builder of the iconic Tower Bridge

by carltonreid / on October 04, 2013 /

“No one who has lived in London can doubt that the pressure on the streets is getting yearly heavier and heavier, and becoming more and more unmanageable.” That was the conclusion of civil engineer Sir John Wolfe-Barry, the son of […]

Spectator, 1925: Ban fast cars, forbid HGVs on country lanes, introduce 10mph speed limits

by carltonreid / on September 24, 2013 /

The King’s Highway is the common track for all classes of traffic—foot passengers, perambulators, bicycles, milk-carts, farm wagons and cattle—and no person has the right to behave on the common highway in such a manner as to imperil the safety […]

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