January 2010
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Sock bike co-ordination
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Bump! →
After seeing this I feel a bit better about my own fall sliding on the ice ;-)
Thanks to Frits B for the link
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Social cycling
Sometimes you forget the that one of the advantages of cycling over driving a car, is that it is much more sociable. Other cyclists nod and say hello and sometimes they stop and chat, like this guy did.
Cycling makes you feel more alive :-)
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Bike Belles Petition goes to Parliament
Why do girls stop cycling? The answer of course was put very succinctly by the Beauty and the Bike project: “it’s the infrastructure stupid”
Sustrans on their Bike Belles site has been running a campaign to get the government to take the issue more seriously. Yesterday the petition was delivered to Parliament:
All 9,000 voices heard to enable more women to cycle
On Tuesday 19...
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Gazelle Bloom Review
Well I’ve had my bike for well over a year now so I thought it was about time I reviewed it.
As I blogged before here, the main reason for choosing this bike was the fact it was specifically designed to carry two childseats. I’d already tried a trailer and found hitching it on and off a pain as well as how limiting it was to where you can ride with one. Sheffield cycle paths are...
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Orange
The day I took these there seemed to be a bit of an orange and beige thing going on.
and on the way back
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Going round in circles...?
Can someone please explain to me what this is for?
Is it that the council where so pleased with their contra-flow bike lane that they thought cyclists would want to turn straight round and do it all over again?
As you can see below it is an extensive stretch - you could have endless fun riding round and round…
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Down by the river
Gated entrance - not the most promising start
While I’m all for subtle signage - these are a bit on the small side
The impressive bit - raised cycle path on a separate level from the footpath…
…or is it raised foot path above the cycle path? No-one seems very sure!
Covered cycle parking - conveniently doubles as a smoking shelter!
Tactile paving - I’m...
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"Hallum"
“Hallum” Esbjerg, Denmark
Sheffielders will get the joke. For everyone else there is the obligatory granny bike and woman in heels ;-)
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A "typical" cycle lane
Well actually this is a pretty good one - it’s not ridiculously narrow, follows Sheffield’s contours, is a contraflow down a one way street and has a solid white line and double yellow lines to tell traffic to keep out. Just one slight catch - the big black metal box (and the queue of others behind) in the way…
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Weaving
Sometimes “official routes” just don’t go where you need to go…
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Lego Cycle Chic
Thinking about summer holidays reminded me of this:
The legendary Mikael Colville-Andersen from Copenhagen Cycle Chic as immortalised at Legoland. Mikael has blogged about it here, but these are my photos from last summer, just to prove he’s not making it up;-)
and closer…
and closer - the man himself!
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Can congestion look pretty?
Well, normally I would say no. After all, queues of dirty and rusting vehicles (let’s face it they stop looking like the adverts 5 minutes after you leave the showroom) belching out black smoke etc is hardly aesthetically pleasing. And it’s hardly much fun sitting in one either, watching the driver behind picking their nose and wondering if the one in front is ever going to put on...
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Ice skating on a bike...
I posted last week about black ice and after the last few days thawing it returned with avengence. The slush had frozen solid overnight and it was like an ice rink as I slithered and slid my way along pushing my bike until I got to a point where I thought the road was clear. I carefully got on made a couple of revolutions of the pedals and felt my bike slide out from under me. I landed on my bum...
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Icicles
There has been a bit of a thaw over the last couple of days and some pretty impressive icicles have resulted.
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Cycling in wellies
Last Wednesday morning I finally braved the snow on my bike. I briefly flirted with the idea of digging out my mountain bike, but figured the advantage of knobbly tires would be offset by the uncertainty of whether the brakes were still working and the fact that, once I’d negotiated the side roads and snow, I would spend most of my journey getting a face full of dirty salt. Plus I...
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Snowmummy and son
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Bang Crash - the downside of snow
The family car has sat still all week in all this snow (it doesn’t go out much most weeks anyway). However, the downside of it sitting there under a pile of snow is that at some point in the week someone had rammed into it and driven off. Of course hidden by the snow we didn’t realise until taking the car out and discovering the front wing dented and the door scratched. Still, I...
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Alternative Transport
On Tuesday morning Sheffield ground to a halt as a snow storm hit and while plenty of other people were still getting about on their bikes in the snow, I’m afraid the idea of balancing precariously with two kids on my bike didn’t really appeal. So we went to school by sledge…
(These are photo’s from Tuesday afternoon when the snow had calmed down)
The roads looked like...
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Biking in the Snow
Earlier this week I took the kids to school by sledge, but the snow didn’t put off many of Sheffield’s cyclists…
Even in the blizzard conditions which brought the city’s traffic to a halt, the bikes kept going.
And even on the most impassable of roads
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Cuban Cycle Chic
As a contrast to all the snow we’ve been having, here’s some sunshine:
Upright and relaxed
Bike taxi (with sunshade)
plastic crates like the dutch
and another taxi
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Sheffield in the Snow - views from the wheel
On the last day of the Christmas holidays we took the kids on the big wheel in Sheffield City Centre. These are some of the pictures I took from up there for anyone who doesn’t know Sheffield and probably an unusual view for those who do!
Norfolk Park
Fargate
Parkhill
Don Valley (in the distance)
Heeley? - not sure
Walkley
Town Hall
Peak District (in the distance)
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Cycling in the snow
I wasn’t brave enough, yesterday, but there were others who were (although I only saw them on the main roads, which had been gritted). Today the snow was even heavier and even the main roads were barely passable by car - but I still saw 2 cyclists go by.
Here’s a couple of photos from yesterday (the snow was a blizzard this morning and too heavy to take my camera out in)
Cars...
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