Crap Cycle Lane III
Yes, Crap Facilities Fans, welcome to the next instalment which is a real saucy seaside shocker! You may have noticed a common theme running through the crapness you have seen so far here and here....
View ArticleConsultation
Concept Drawing by Craft:Pegg The barriers have gone up along a section of Worthing seafront. Splash Point is being redeveloped to a design by Craft:Pegg Landscape Architects. It could have been a...
View ArticleLondon Cycle Superhighways
Two of the London Cycle Superhighways opened at the beginning of the week to a guarded response. Obviously a scheme like this (which cost £23million in total) is going to invoke a broad spectrum of...
View ArticleCyclists Special
I know that this has featured elsewhere but it’s a wonderful film from a more civilised age. On May 8th 1955, British Transport Films recorded an excursion organised by CTC. Please note the...
View ArticleBicycle Repair Man
As it’s Friday, here is a wonderful gem from Monty Pythons Flying Circus about Mr F G Superman and his secret identity. I sometimes wish he were real. Incidentally the star of this sketch, the ever...
View ArticleLast Tango in Parris
Journalist Carlton Reid has brought this to everyone’s attention on his brilliant website. The title of this post refers to Matthew Parris, an ex-MP and columnist. In 2007 he wrote a column in the...
View ArticleMiddle Age Men In Lycra – So What?
Freddie Mercury. A Man who knew how to rock in bib tights. Sort of. In July, the Government published its National Travel Survey data. It confirmed that cycle use has increased to the highest...
View ArticleThe Highway Code (Rules for Cyclists) – The Lo Fidelity Bicycle Club Version
Please find below the ‘Rules for Cyclists’ as outlined in The Highway Code adapted by me to give more accuracy (in my humble opinion). 59 Clothing. You should wear • a cycle helmet which conforms to...
View ArticleCan Cycling Be Funny?
Me trying to be funny Last year I completed a stand up comedy course organised by the very knowledgeable and lovely Jill Edwards who, through no fault of her own, has also ended up living in...
View ArticleFrankly, my dear, I do give a ‘Dam
Today I am 41. As an early birthday treat last week, British Airways allowed me onto one of their flights to Amsterdam for an extended weekend, but only after I had to perform a minor and, if I’m...
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