BMXer Bradley Wiggins
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BMXer Bradley Wiggins
One of the trickier parts of my commute
Muscle Skin Suits for Bicyclists, Looks Like Exposed Muscle Flesh
Just in time for Hallowe’en!
Why We Need More Research Into Cycling and Brain Science - Commute - The Atlantic Cities
(And this isn’t just an excuse to say cyclists need their heads examined.)
Own the Road: Alibi Facilities:
Images of crap cycle lanes are a well-established, and popular comic genre of the early internet-age but analysis of the logic behind the phenomenon is missing.
(Via Carlton Reid via JP Stacey)
The method costs people’s time according to how much they earn, and uses this cost to create a value for the development. So, for example, it says the market price of an hour spent travelling in a taxi is £45, but the price of an hour spent travelling by bicycle is just £17, because cyclists tend to be poorer than taxi passengers.
George Monbiot – An Answer to the Meaning of Life (2011)
(Via At War With The Motorist via a comment on the Alternative Department for Transport via the Missing Bean)
SRAM goes Gangnam…SRAMgnam Cyclocross Style
The other attempts to even up the tally were quite laughable. A taxi driver unburdened a series of anecdotes, telling us that ‘many cyclists take diabolical liberties’, before inviting us to ‘look at this wally’ – a wally unfortunately cycling quite legally on a marked shared use pavement. (That ‘war’ on Britain’s roads – the statistics)
(Via Łukasz Korecki)
Be prepared
When all relevant ICD-10 codes are used, fatalities by time spent travelling vary within similar ranges for walking, cycling and driving. Risks for drivers were highest in youth and fell with age, while for pedestrians and cyclists, risks increased with age. For the young, especially males, cycling is safer than driving.
We should encourage the explosion in cycling rather than resent it.
There is no war on Britain’s roads.
The guidance is for commissioners, managers and practitioners involved in physical activity promotion or who work in the environment, parks and leisure or transport planning sectors. They could be working in local authorities, the NHS and other organisations in the public, private, voluntary and community sectors.
