November 2009
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WatchIs that an electric bike?
I get a lot of comments about my bike when I’m out an about ranging from (my favourite) “nice panniers” (from a guy I must add), “where on earth did you get a bike with a skirt guard?” and the slightly embarrassing, and what I can only assume is ironic, since it is mainly students who yell this down the street, “coooool - I want one of...
Sheffield Station Link to remain open
The planning decision is in on the proposal to put in barriers at Sheffield Station as posted about here has been rejected.
A win for local democracy :-)
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Scabby Knees
Everyone of a certain age can remember a significant part of their childhood seemed to be filled with scabby knees (or plasters and their dreaded removal). But is this something children today no longer experience? Certainly my own kids don’t seem to suffer anywhere near as much as I did. Is it merely that, unlike us, they aren’t forced to wear skirts and short trousers for most of...
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"Trike gets Caroline's life back on the road" →
CAROLINE Waugh embarked on a new life when she set off on the school run this term.
For more than 20 years she had relied on other people, or struggled with a mobility scooter to get around. But she achieved a long-held goal when she delivered her two children to the school gates – by trike.
“I can only liken this feeling to falling in love, when I may experience butterflies in my tummy....
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WatchLadies Cycling
from pathe
sit up straight, relax your shoulders and off you go!
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My second bike...
was a Raleigh RSW (or “Shopper” as we used to call them) a bit like this one (from Raleigh RSW on flickr). They are enjoying a bit of a resurgence at the moment as the fashion for small wheel bikes has grown.
It was actually my mother’s bike (although I can’t recall her actually riding it more than once). My first bike was getting a bit small and my younger brother had his...
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Watch“Car Catcher” 1939
“Various shots of the inventors, two Sheffield engineers, demonstrating his car safety device - a scoop fitted to front of car which is opened to scoop up pedestrians and save them from injury in an accident. Several shots of the two engineers demonstrating their device. One man is driving the car fitted with device, another is crossing the street while...
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Cycle Chic Backlash →
A rather ill thought out post on the above blog provoked quite a debate last week. The term “cycle chic” clearly means different things to different people, but the idea that it is objectifying women is missing the point by a mile. To me “cycle chic” is about reclaiming the bike as a means of everyday transport and you can wear what you like, the main thing is you...
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