Worldometers - real time world statistics

Worldometers - real time world statistics: find out how many bicycles were produced this year!

bliss: world naked bike ride 2007

bliss: world naked bike ride 2007: another write up of the WNBR.

Brave Cyclists Get Naked To Promote Greener Transport (from The Argus)

Brave Cyclists Get Naked To Promote Greener Transport (from The Argus): coverage of the World Naked Bike Ride which took place in Brighton last Saturday

Now Naked Cyclists Can Protest In City Without Fear Of Arrest (from The Argus)

Now Naked Cyclists Can Protest In City Without Fear Of Arrest (from The Argus); photo of Nick Sayers and Tamsin in the buff!

Crap Cycle Lanes of Croydon

Crap Cycle Lanes of Croydon: an excellent blog-style website on 'the 45 miles of substandard cycle facilities in Croydon.'

Transport Project Will Cut Journey Times (from The Argus)

Transport Project Will Cut Journey Times (from The Argus): new bus service (sorry, rapid transit system) will include cycle racks.

What is this? on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

What on earth is this? on Flickr: Clive Andrews' snap of an Advanced Stop Line on West Street. Priceless!

Cycling: We take a spin round Brighton, Cardiff and Leeds: my website gets a mention in this Grauniad article!

stickered

stickered
Originally uploaded by fred pipes.

Last Friday I went for lunch at Wagamama and locked my bike against a lamp post on a corner opposite. When I came out, I found my saddle had been stickered with a colour-coordinated message that read: 'Pavements are for pedestrians'. I'm aware that parked bikes can be a hazard to blind people, but have never come across pedestrian vigilantes before -- do they also sticker cars parked on pavements? It finally washed off in today's rain!

LiveLeak.com - Bicycle lift in Norway

Bicycle lift in Norway: wow! Imagine one of these up Southover Street or Albion Hill!

Brighton Journey Planner

Journey On is Brighton's new Journey Planner: looks good but some of its suggested routes are a little eccentric, involving steep hills! Obviously designed to get you fit and lose weight!

Bicycle Music | Bike Music -- Our list of songs & bands: yes, a list of bicycle-related tunes.

Jewson unloads

Jewson unloads
Originally uploaded by fred pipes.

The new [New England Quarter] station site's system of roadways is fully cycle-laned, and they do make excellent loading bays!

Could Manchester bollards be a solution to Brighton's traffic problem?

North Street Quadrant

North Street Quadrant
Originally uploaded by fred pipes.

This is the North Street Quadrant, bone of contention with Bricycles and the council. It was once a road and nifty short cut for cyclists to Queens Road, now blocked off by 'the developers' (not the council!).

3 Million Cycling Fund Wasted On Goody Bags (from The Argus): my letter to the Argus.

When Brighton and Hove City Council was given £3 million to spend on developing a cycling demonstration town, I prayed it wouldn't all be frittered away on audits, consultants, feasibility studies and fact-finding missions.

However, it has found new and ingenious ways of spending money in the name of improving and encouraging urban cycling in west Brighton and Hove.

Instead of handing out goody bags to the people of Portslade (Council wasting £3m cycle fund', The Argus, December 7), it could have made a start on joining up the existing fragmented cycle routes.

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In contrast, the council has been busy making it even more difficult to get from A to B by bicycle in Brighton, not only closing off the North Street Quadrant to cyclists, a safe and convenient short cut by the Clock Tower, but also installing "tank traps" made from rows of granite cobbles to knobble the unwary cyclist along what is designated a blue "official cycle route" according to the Council's latest cycle map.

Elder Place and Providence Place, parallel to London Road, once a quiet route from Preston Circus to North Laine, has become an obstacle course more suited to mountain bikes.

The council seems more intent on scoring brownie points and winning spurious awards over other demonstration towns than giving ordinary citizens practical help to abandon their gas guzzlers and get on their bikes.

Alan (Fred) Pipes, Gerard Street, Brighton
12:32pm today

Council Wasting 3m Cycle Fund (from The Argus): Ian Davey and Tony Green put the boot in!

Cycle lane parking

Cycle lane parking
Originally uploaded by fred pipes.

The contra-flow cycle lane on York Hill makes an ideal place to park! On my way back I spotted a van and 2 cars on there but couldn't be bothered photographing them! Parking on contra-flows is particularly dangerous because the cyclist has to pull out to face oncoming traffic.

New Road

New Road
Originally uploaded by fred pipes.

New Road is Brighton's Euro-style experiment of getting cars, taxis, cycles and pedestrians sharing the same space, with no road markings or signs. I hope they don't leave that fearsome step up onto the new blocks!

Cobblers

cobbles2
Originally uploaded by fred pipes.

Rows of cobbles designed to knobble the unwary cyclist seem to be springing up all over the place. On Providence Place, just by St Barts church, our council has laid these cobbles. What are they for? They clearly don't calm cars, but are a hazard to cyclists using this as a quiet route from Preston Circus to the North Laine. Ironically, because of the road camber, the middle section where the cars go is relatively lower! They are also to be found on Ann Street.