love your bicycle

beautiful in bruin

noreply@blogger.com (TTF) — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 19:22:00 +0000

with many thanks to Andy for the photos

textiel plaadpunt

noreply@blogger.com (TTF) — Sun, 30 Aug 2015 19:35:00 +0000

as e-bikes grow in popularity these power points are becoming ever more common too... while you visit such wonderful places as the textile museum you can be charging your bike so it's ready to go when you are...

under surveillance

noreply@blogger.com (TTF) — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 12:48:00 +0000

photo by Andy at readingsideways.net

glistening gazelle

noreply@blogger.com (TTF) — Sun, 14 Jun 2015 12:47:00 +0000

photo by Andy Fuller at readingsideways.net

fc eindhoven bikes

noreply@blogger.com (TTF) — Fri, 12 Jun 2015 13:40:00 +0000

oxford 2

noreply@blogger.com (TTF) — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 13:38:00 +0000

oxford 1

noreply@blogger.com (TTF) — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 13:37:00 +0000

Leiden blues

noreply@blogger.com (TTF) — Sat, 04 Apr 2015 08:28:00 +0000

with thanks to Andy...

three wheels in blue

noreply@blogger.com (TTF) — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 18:54:00 +0000

urbanstation bikevertising

noreply@blogger.com (TTF) — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 18:52:00 +0000

red busato

noreply@blogger.com (TTF) — Sat, 15 Nov 2014 18:25:00 +0000

atencion - signs of bikes

noreply@blogger.com (TTF) — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 18:22:00 +0000

light bikes

noreply@blogger.com (TTF) — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 18:21:00 +0000

red light bike

noreply@blogger.com (TTF) — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 18:19:00 +0000

bicycle love

noreply@blogger.com (TTF) — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 18:18:00 +0000

guest post from Grote Gracht 86

noreply@blogger.com (TTF) — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 11:43:00 +0000

many streets in Maastricht are being remade at the moment by skilled tradesmen from Portugal.

you might notice on the far side a broken white line?

that's part of the bike lane... : )

you can get a sense of the sounds of hard work by listening to the recording here:

many thanks to the photographers and sound recorders at number 86.

veloh air

noreply@blogger.com (TTF) — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 18:17:00 +0000

bicycles and radios - the film

noreply@blogger.com (TTF) — Tue, 06 May 2014 13:52:00 +0000

I won't pretend that I know too much about this film... but there is some stylish cinematography, romance, and great bicycling distractions to be enjoyed...

bicycle sounds safe

noreply@blogger.com (TTF) — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 20:04:00 +0000

lately, as I've been riding around Maastricht, the bell on one of my bikes has been jingling along with every bump and cobblestone I ride over... while i like the gentle ringing sounds, it reminded me of how convenient it is, as a pedestrian, to hear bikes coming from behind you before deciding to cross the street.

no doubt you're less likely to blindly step out without looking if you can hear a noisy rattling thing approaching at speed.

and that is something to be thankful for - most of the bikes are old and noisy.

just don't assume that their brakes will work efficiently...

you can hear my jingling bell here:

to stimulate your eyes here's a little film of riding around Maastricht.

I didn't make the film and wouldn't have chosen the music that has been used... but it does give you an additional sense of what it is like to ride around Maastricht.

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you could even watch it on mute and play this longer version of my bike sounds.

lastly, I wonder if there have been any unintended effects of making smoother (i.e. quieter) bike lanes?

just bicycle sounds

noreply@blogger.com (TTF) — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 19:16:00 +0000

from films of bicycle sounds, I thought I'd go to sound recordings of bicycle sounds...

no great visuals, just humble bicycle sounds available from Freesounds.

Bicycle sounds

noreply@blogger.com (TTF) — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 19:04:00 +0000

I only just discovered this great short film by Stephen Meirerding.

It's a great way to show sounds on film...

It was the winner of the Bike Short Film Festival, 2012 in New York.

Great work Stephen!

bike radios and sound systems

noreply@blogger.com (TTF) — Sat, 15 Mar 2014 18:06:00 +0000

my wife recently told me of the 1955 huffy bike with radio...

it got me reminiscing and is the inspiration for some of the forthcoming posts.

anyway, you can see it and, best of all, hear the 1955 version in the video below.

for something rather different, and for the young child in all of us, something a little more retro...

different times, styles and advertisements, but regardless the bike radio still appeals to or affects the state of mind of the rider in the same way.

rock on ride on!

bike enables footballer to misbehave

noreply@blogger.com (TTF) — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 18:52:00 +0000

today appeared a story in some newspapers about a professional footballer getting intoxicated and doing something stupid.

that is nothing particularly surprising you might think.

you also might wonder what that has to do with this blog about bicycles...

fair enough question.

well.... the article was describing the events and then stated:

"Bendtner was apparently accompanied by three friends, one of whom had a bicycle."

My first thought that this was an irrelevant detail, but that it somehow made the story more salacious because there was someone with a bicycle in the group. Obviously those with bikes are troublemakers eh?!

Anyway, it turns out the bike actually had a significant role in the events that followed. Essentially, Bendtner et al used the the time it took for the he taxi driver to mount and dismount the bike from the rack to misbehave.

Without the bike, they might just have all got in the taxi and got a lift home.

And that would definitely not have been a newsworthy story... though perhaps it would have been a nice change...

Overall, a shameful moment in the bicycle's history of being a significant non-human actor in social networks....

(With apologies to Callon, Latour and others... for a little bit about Actor Network Theory see the wikepedia entry, or, for a lot more on it you can go here or to Latour's homepage. For more on taxis with bike racks in Copenhagen see these images and read a post at Copenhagenize.)

M5 - take 2

noreply@blogger.com (TTF) — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 21:57:00 +0000

M5 recumbents

noreply@blogger.com (TTF) — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 21:28:00 +0000

last weekend I had the pleasure of some fine cycling around Zeeland.

much fine weather

but many strong winds.

from similar or worse conditions, M5 - a Dutch liggenfietsen company was born...

sadly for me they were closed when i passed by... so in through the glass i peered...

while obviously very different from Bromptons, there is something strangely likeable

and similar in their aesthetics