Blog posts tagged "Cycling"

June 24, 2009 1:01 pm No Comments

So the government is setting up 10 cycle hubs across Britain – 10 railway stations where there will be state of the art cycle racks and a cycle shop within reach. I’m tempted to say they should have a ground anchorage for flying pigs. But let’s give them the benefit of the doubt.

June 8, 2009 3:49 pm No Comments

I think I have detected an unreported war on First Great Western trains. At its heart, integrated transport and climate change. On Saturday morning I arrived to board the 7.50am train to Oxford. I had cycled from my home to Paddington and proposed to cycle from Oxford to a friend’s house in the north of [...]

May 27, 2009 11:09 am No Comments

Boris Johnson’s brush with a near-death accident on his bike in London’s Limehouse district (see video below) throws into sharp relief the experience we cyclists endure every working day. I am, like Boris, a jobbing cyclist. I use the machine every working day of my life – to, from, and at work. Several times a [...]

March 25, 2009 5:56 pm No Comments

My day is made! Spandau Ballet, one of the totemic rock groups of the early 80s, are reforming. Better still, they love Channel 4 News. And John Keeble seems to have seen me being cut up on my bike one day.

February 23, 2009 2:19 pm No Comments

I am indebted to a company that I cannot name in my blog for fear of advertising for sending me the most amazing jacket, which has an LED lighting system with about 30 bulbs arranged all over the jacket. Makes you look like a Christmas tree and feel like a complete madman!