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• There’s No Glory Shooting Fish In A Barrel

  
  Do The Right Thing Sweat365 Fitness Community — Authority: 130
  This is the only conclusion I can come to on the issue of mobile phones & drivers. Either that, or the police are just too chicken-sh*t scared of the sort of drivers’ lobby backlash that would ensue if they bothered to get serious on this.Here’s why I have a problem with people chatting away on [...]
  17 hours ago

• Half-Light November

  
  Cycle Chic from Copenhagen - The Original. Streetstyle and Bike Advocacy in High Heels — Authority: 534
  What a dismal spot of news last night. I heard that the record for fewest hours of sunshine in... For the full photographic glory and the rest of the text, you know where to go. The Original Cycle Chic awaits.
  3 days ago

• Kohler Arts Dispatch

  
  Deep Craft — Authority: 121
  To help research content for our project as artists in residence at Kohler Arts Center , one of the students at Etude School in Sheboygan has created a website to document and archive all things related to the culture of non-motorized transportation in the region. Working collaboratively under the direction of ...
  3 days ago

• Kohler Arts Dispatch

  
  Deep Craft — Authority: 121
  Beginning around the middle of the nineteenth century and thriving until about a generation ago, Sheboygan has a rich history as the epicenter of Midwestern circus production, dominated by a handful of family dynasties, many of whose descendants remain in the area. As I continue to explore opportunities and resources ...
  4 days ago

• Is It Time To Demand Segregation?

  
  Do The Right Thing Sweat365 Fitness Community — Authority: 130
  No, I’m not talking about the kind of segregation that creates second-class citizens , and makes people sit at the back of the bus - that’s not a Good Thing at all.No, what I mean is having decent, direct routes for bikes that keep them out of the way of eejits people driving motorised vehicles. [...]
  5 days ago

• Kohler Arts Dispatch

  
  Deep Craft — Authority: 121
  a morning commuter braves the November chill in Sheboygan, Wisconsin Sheboygan is easily one of the coolest towns I’ve experienced. The people here exude an infectious optimism and can-do eagerness that conjure another time, a friendlier America of the past that in many ways has never left this small city on the ...
  5 days ago

• Kohler Arts Dispatch

  
  Deep Craft — Authority: 121
  looking E. over Sheboygan Reef, a geological oddity along Lake Michigan’s shores A gentle westerly breeze rolls tiny breakers over Sheboygan Reef, a rare protrusion of limestone bedrock extending to Niagra Falls, as I walk along the lakefront bike path before an afternoon of meetings with Kohler Arts Center . ...
  6 days ago

• Big Business Caters For Women Cyclists In London

  
  Do The Right Thing Sweat365 Fitness Community — Authority: 130
  There’s something going on, y’know.It seems that this thing where women cyclists in That London are at more risk than men are just refuses to go away. According to this report by the BBC , women account for only 27% of the capital’s bike journeys. Yet of the eight cyclists killed by drivers of lorries, [...]
  1 week ago

• Bring Back The 1865 Locomotive Act

  
  Do The Right Thing Sweat365 Fitness Community — Authority: 130
  One of the institutions of British cycling is the British Heart Foundation’s London to Brighton Ride . With 27,000 riders heading out to cause traffic mayhem (the roads on the route are closed to proper, tax-paying traffic…) the ride’s about 60 miles, and the event has been run since 1980. But actually, it’s a ...
  1 week ago

• Columbus Installs Bike Box With Mixed Results

  
  Bike Commuting in Columbus — Authority: 118
  The City of Columbus is trying some new stuff with our bike infrastructure, most notable of which is the test of a bike box at the corner of North Broadway and Milton - the street route for the Olentangy Multi-Use Trail between Clinton-Como park and Whetstone Park. Consider Bikings website talks about what a bike ...
  1 week ago

• Cycling Manifesto In Pictures

  
  Do The Right Thing Sweat365 Fitness Community — Authority: 130
  I really, really like the Superhighway Manifesto of the London Cycling Campaign that I posted about at the weekend. The trouble is, the odds are that the people in overall charge of traffic & transport in your (my) local authority don’t actually ride a bike as an everyday mode of transport. So the fine words ...
  1 week ago

• Yay Bikes Newsletter - November, 2009

  
  Bike Commuting in Columbus — Authority: 118
  From the great folks at Yay Bikes! COMMUTER CYCLING COURSE - NOV 7 Columbuss League Cycling Instructors are offering a 6-hour (2-8pm) commuter course for riders who are already comfortable on the roads but need support to master them. All for the price of a tank of gas - $35 per person! Register ...
  1 week ago

• Is Your Journey To Work “Impossible”?

  
  Do The Right Thing Sweat365 Fitness Community — Authority: 130
  Sometimes it feels as if roads really are just for cars - especially the direct, get you from A to B roads that would be practical on a bike.Anyway, this video via Commute By Bike pretty much sums up what we all know - "impossible" is just a word that Luke Skywalker would use when [...]
  2 weeks ago

• You’ve Got To Look For The Good In People

  
  Do The Right Thing Sweat365 Fitness Community — Authority: 130
  According to our local [usually a total work of fiction] weather forecast, today was the only day of the week where the weather was predicted to be anything other than underwater-rainy. Now, I don’t mind riding in the rain, but it’s 16 miles to work. On Siegfried that takes just over an hour, which is [...]
  2 weeks ago

• London Traffic - Early 1950s?

  
  Do The Right Thing Sweat365 Fitness Community — Authority: 130
  Over the last week or so there’s been a few videos of historical traffic situations posted - from Portland, Copenhagen and Amsterdam .So I thought it would be interesting to see what the UK looked like in a similar period. What I found on YouTube was this fantastic video, which I think is from the [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Most Surreal SMIDSY Ever?

  
  Do The Right Thing Sweat365 Fitness Community — Authority: 130
  This via a comment by Scubamatt on today’s Yehuda Moon strip:Man convicted in orange rabbit pedicab hit-and-runFriday, October 30, 2009 By The Associated PressPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Mercedes driver testified he didn’t see the 6-foot-tall orange rabbit driving a pedicab because he was fumbling for a dropped ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cycle Routes - How Does This Sound To You?

  
  Do The Right Thing Sweat365 Fitness Community — Authority: 130
  If you were campaigning to improve the quality of local cycle infrastructure, is this the sort of thing that you’d be demanding?Make my journey a pleasant experience and not a daily struggle for space.Give me and other cyclists priority over motor traffic.Include sections free of motor traffic.Stop buses, lorries ...
  2 weeks ago

• Track Cycling For Beginners

  
  Do The Right Thing Sweat365 Fitness Community — Authority: 130
  I’m trawling through Youtube & Vimeo to try to find a clip showing what cycling was like in the UK in the 1950s for comparison with the vid of the same era from the Netherlands, as shown by David Hembrow & Amsterdamize .Not much luck so far . . . but I did find this:Makes [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Friday Caption Contest

  
  Do The Right Thing Sweat365 Fitness Community — Authority: 130
  I may be in danger of becoming a bit of a cycling zealot. So to celebrate that rather than deny it, this week’s Caption Contest has a slightly religious theme, with a Creative Commons-licensed photo by sp!ros on Flickr : So many opportunities here - the nun, the juxtaposition with McDonalds, that outrageously short ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ashington Bike Lockers

  
  Do The Right Thing Sweat365 Fitness Community — Authority: 130
  We took a walk around the retail end of Ashington today at lunch time to see how the businesses were doing, and what they were facing in terms of competition from the new Cylon Mothership Asda-Walmart store that opened this Monday. Passing through the bus station, I saw these: What are these? Well, look at [...]
  2 weeks ago

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