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Oulipo One
Come all ye crazy...Sat 22 Nov, 10am-2pm | Meet Newtown Square, outside the Newtown Neighbourhood CentreThe French Oulipo are a colborating group of writers and mathematicians who use mathematical...
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Fuji Touring
I've just bought a new Fuji Touring bike. It was one of those rash non-thinking decisions. My old Trek has been a mess over the last few months and I wasn't able to get it up and running well on my...
View ArticleThe high cost of free parking
I just heard about this film from the wonderful collection of films at Streetfilms. Dr Donald Shoup has written a book called The High Cost of Free Parking and it seem to be getting some tread. For too...
View ArticleSydney Community Bicycle Workshop
For the last two Monday nights, I've headed to the Nunnery Bike Co-Op (now know as the Sydney Community Bicycle Workshop). It has only been two years since I'd been there, but in that time I'd moved...
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Changes
The public consultation on the proposed Union Street cycleway finished today. I took this time lapse photography of the current intersection just for prosperity. Hopefully in a few months I'll be able...
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Early Bird
One of my favourite films from the recent Bicycle Film Festival was called Early Bird, written, directored and produced by the Melbourne animation artist Trace Balla. The film traces the thoughts that...
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Bikelove interview
I was recently interviewed about some of my research on cyclist/motorist interactions by Jo Jones on 2Ser Radio 107.3FM. You can listen to the program at: http://bikelove.wordpress.com/
View Article"Cycling" and "Cyclists"
I've recently been doing some media analysis as part of one ongoing project on the hatred of cyclists and a new project that is looking at the reporting of cycling in the Australian print media over...
View ArticleBicycles for Humanity
I've been rattling the can for the last few days in support of Bicycles For Humanity. The organisation collects and repairs old bikes and sends them to developing countries. They are currently half way...
View ArticleStop me
Via CopenhagenizeI'd never seen the original film clip to this Smiths classic. How could you not love Morrissey on a bicycle? It contains one of my all time favourite Morrissey lyrics:An emergency...
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Attitudes to cycling
I just read the research study Attitudes to Cycling: a qualitative study and conceptual framework (1997) by DG Davies, ME Halliday, M Mays and RL Pocock published by the Transport Research Laboratory...
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Woollahra Bike
Riding down Queen Street Woollahra on Sunday I was shocked to see this amongst the displays of high-end fashion shops.The bike is being sold at RG Madden: The Design Store. Follow the links through the...
View ArticleSobering reading
When a car hits a pedestrian or cyclist, conventional wisdom blames the victim. Jaywalking is ingrained in New York culture — it has been called the city’s secular religion — and most cyclists treat...
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Product review: Gazelle Fuente Plus
I've just written a review of the Gazelle Fuente Plus over at SydneyCyclist.comFollowing up from my last post, there is a very timely article by Debra Mayrhofer on New Matilda called "Do Cyclists have...
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Hodological Space
I just came across the concept of 'hodological space' in a reading group discussion. Searching for the term, I found a good definition here.The term 'hodological space' is derived from the Greek word...
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Penny Farthing Championships, Evandale
Huw Morgan of the Dulwich Hill Bicycle Club has won his second National Penny Farthing Championship in Evandale last weekend. Read all about it here and checkout some photos here. Two days before the...
View ArticleCycling and the law
Via Rob on FB.A good investigation into cyclist, motorist and police interactions by FOX (of all networks!). One of the most interesting aspects of the video is the disjuncture between law and norms in...
View ArticleReading and riding
I love to read, I love to ride.This week I’ve been reading Paul Fournel’s Need for the bike. Fournel is a member of the Oulipo collective of avant-guard French writers and he brings a literary panache...
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On dromocracy
(MacNamara Ave, Concord)If you stand in a room with 10 bicycle advocates and ask them what are their three greatest demands, chances are: infrastructure, driver education, and lower speed limits will...
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Children's mobility
I've recently read Hillman, Adams and Whitelegg's (1990) One False Move... A study of children's independent mobility. If I could sum up the book, these two quotations would do it:Our analysis suggests...
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David Jones gets onboard
Its not just Woollahra. Check out whats hot in David Jones latest winter fashions. Photo taken from DJ's on Market Street, Sydney.
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Lost irony
(taken from: http://theinspirationroom.com)I was recently given a TV (just in time for the Giro and the Tour!). Nevertheless I have been seeing a lot more advertising. One ad that took my attention was...
View ArticleGoodbye Yellow Brick Road
If you happen to have stumbled here, you've probably noticed this blog has become rather stale. For whatever reasons, I've stopped blogging even though I'm still obsessed with cycling and more...
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