In a series of week-long trips during 2021, Lee Craigie and Jenny Graham travelled the length of the Dee, the Tay and the Clyde by bike, packraft, and on foot, recording as they went. You can now listen to their exploits and thoughts on YouTube, Soundcloud, or wherever you get your podcasts – just search for ‘Source to Sea’ From…
You can now travel by train from Portugal all the way to Singapore, according to rail blogger Mark Smith, the man behind the excellent website The Man in Seat 61. According to his estimates, the 11,654-mile journey from Lagos via Paris, Moscow, Beijing and Bangkok could be done in three weeks. The epic journey is now possible thanks to a…
Running a cycle cam on your handlebars or helmet doesn’t make the roads feel any safer, but you do feel less helpless. In the event of a road traffic incident, video footage goes a long way towards guaranteeing legal redress – it’s a cycle insurance of sorts. However, for those who can’t afford a camera, there’s an alternative. Pass Pixi…
An article this week in the Sunday Telegraph has reignited arguments over low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs). The principle argument put forward by veteran transport campaigner John Stewart seems to be that LTN schemes displace traffic from quiet residential streets to surrounding boundary roads and nearby main roads. However, the data he quotes is disputed and proponents of low-traffic neighbourhoods argue…
The idea behind the Viz comic ‘cycle shed’ might not be so crazy after all. With an estimated 800 bicycles stolen every day in Britain, how else does the urban cyclist short on space expected to store an expensive bike? We thought we’d cracked it with our flat-pack skip, or as we describe it – an urban clocking device for…
08/12/21
