May 2011
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Inaugural Sheffield Cycle Chic Sundays™ Ride
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Inaugural Sheffield Cycle Chic Sundays™ Ride
Style over speed
Cycle Chic is dressing for your destination on or off your bike; on your way to work; going out; shopping, running errands or meeting friends.
Inspired by Copenhagen Cycle Chic™ - The Original Cycle Chic™, the goal of Cycle Chic™ Sundays is to enjoy time with friends & make new ones while...
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Phew...
made it across safely
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Quick, quick...
quick
slow
How [not] to engineer a junction. The cyclist above is making a perfectly legal manoeuvre which involves having to sprint across 4 lanes of traffic before the lights change, try not to hit any pedestrians and maintain enough speed to get up a 1 in 5 gradient! No conflicts there then.
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Look I'm tearing my hair out here
It’s putting years on me cycling in these conditions…
I’m only 21 y’know…
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Bl**dy Crap Infrastructure...
it’s just not good enough!
Grrrr….
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Well really...
There’s a lorry parked on the pavement and double yellow lines and don’t get me started about all the cars that are over the advanced stop line
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Hmmm really don't think much of this junction...
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The GB Cycling Embassy Meeting in Manchester...
On Saturday I attended the second meeting of the GB Cycling Embassy (CEoGB). It was a day of several firsts for me:
The first time I’ve attempted to take a bike on a train, the first time I’ve attempted to ride a bike around Manchester and the first time meeting Mark from IBikeLondon, TheCyclingJim, Sally/Townmouse Kevin from Inclusive Cycling to mention a few. Oh and to complicate...
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Caroline's co-ordinating "bike bag"
This is Caroline’s new “bike bag” which neatly hangs from the seat. Who says you can’t be stylish on a recumbent?
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All in black with coordinating lock
Yet another, bike lock as fashion accessory!
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It was a beautiful morning...
well it was until it started raining - hopefully this guy got to where he was going before getting wet.
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Postman on a bike No. 2
The Royal Mail may be doing their best to stop Posties cycling by scrapping Post Bikes. Here in Sheffield they use their own bikes.
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White and Black - simple but stylish
and practical too.
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Cycle for Health
Shhh… don’t tell anyone, but cycling is actually rather good for you.
Here in the world of cycle chic we don’t tend to mention that because as soon as someone mentions the word “exercise” people’s eyes glaze over and they start thinking about something else like eating chocolate (well I do anyway…) or even worse the S word (sweat) gets mentioned. Yuk!
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