Bike messengers serve a greater good. While delivering highly important parcels from one point to another is good, it is not the greater good. Some may disagree with me, bike messengers included - but the presence of bike messengers in a city gives said city the right to call itself [...]
In three days the greatest cycling event will begin. ‘But the Tour de France has already finished’, you say? Perhaps I am not a cyclist after all as the Tour de France holds little interest for me, what’s all this riding for one day and stopping to rest malarky?
The Paris-Brest-Paris [...]
Not only did he manage to pick up the shopping…
And why does it not surprise me that only the french can turn even a mountain bike into a romantic means of transportation.
(via casafree.com)
mountain bike, transportationI am not one to renege on a promise made. As stated in the poll ‘Who will win the Tour de France’, I offered up my trusty broken back wheel - or a candlelight dinner for two at my house to the person who chose the winner of the [...]
This is a video my friend Cedric recorded in New York a couple days ago. There are no words I can use to do this justice.
bike, New York City, video
I recently came across “The Magnificent Revolutionary Cycling Cinema”, albeit a bit late as it is happening this weekend here in the UK at The Big Chill Festival, August 3rd through the 5th in Eastnor.
This Revolutionary and Magnificent Cycling Cinema is actually very… magnificent and revolutionary. Take ten [...]
If you’ve come across this post thinking I am actually going to explain how to build a fixed gear bike in record time… well I’m not. If you live in a land of fantasy and imagination and love wasting endless hours of your valuable time online, then perhaps you’re an [...]
Alan Durning, founder and executive director of Sightline Institute (formerly Northwest Environment Watch), poses the question as to whether cycling is reserved for children, losers and intellectuals. A brilliant look at why Americans are perhaps so reluctant to use bicycles as a means of transportation.
Following up from my previous post on this topic, today the new law, that requires bike messengers in New York City to wear helmets, goes into effect. Apart from this law being absolutely ridiculous, I find it hard to see how [...]
Although it has nothing to do with cycling whatsoever, I am blatantly promoting my new weblogette.
So for those of you that are curious as to what may interest me besides bikes, have a look.
As it’s a tumblelog, it should be filled with some pretty random and pointless [...]
