Do motor industry executives dream of electric cars?
Apparently, yes: they do: the relentless obsession with Carbon emissions (while important) has led us into a blind alley of thinking that electric vehicles are somehow “green”. A clue: they’re not,...
View ArticleParis vs Bristol
Bristol, Britain’s first Cycling City, aims to introduce a Paris Velib-style cycle hire scheme, operated by Hourbike. My fear is that, by having a system that is too small, the scheme will fail. Some...
View ArticleChanges are afoot
Since leaving Digerati Studio in June, I’ve been picking up odd bits of freelance work but not yet really enough to provide a decent income for my family. I mentioned on Twitter on Friday that I’d had...
View ArticleCharlie Simpson, cycling and charity
BBC News: A seven-year-old boy from London who was aiming to raise £500 for the Haiti quake relief effort through a sponsored bike ride has raised more than £72,000 (n.b. now over £100,000). –...
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West addicts facing jump in drug prices by end of month
This is a parody. Oil is an addiction. Addicts in the West could be paying up to 130p a hit for drugs by the beginning of next year, an industry body has warned. The Retail Drugs Industry Independent...
View ArticleConscientious Objection and the “War on the Motorist”
Philip “Hoverboard” Hammond, Secretary of State for Transport, says he’s going to “end the war on the motorist”, as if such a war exists rather than being the mental (in both senses) construct of the...
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I wonder what the cyclist is
I wrote this poem when I was preparing my report on Andrea Leadsom’s Dangerous Cycling Ten-minute Bill for The Pod Delusion. The report featured in Episode 83. Spring is sprung, the grass is ris I...
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Bath’s ‘Bladud’ Bikes – a hire scheme before its time?
"All the bells are rusted or broken already" by bookmeister on Instagram [I started this post back in March] News reaches me via @katie_monk on Twitter that “Word on the street is that the bike scheme...
View ArticleThe Pavement Cycling Issue
The Road “Safety” Crackdown comes in the wake of the hit-and-run death of a cyclist, Jake Gilmore, in Bath in November. He was one of a number of cyclists who died in what was a dark month for road...
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