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There’s plenty of roadspace at night

Carlton Reid — Wed, 09 May 2012 10:13:58 +0000

Mike Penning, the portly roads minister, needs to be bound and gagged and dumped on the M6, at 3am, just north of Carlisle. I’m not advocating the death of a minister of the Crown; Penning would be perfectly safe for quite some time because this massively wide motorway is pretty much empty at 3am. Maybe [...]

1st MTB World Championships, 1987

Carlton Reid — Fri, 04 May 2012 13:16:03 +0000

I was in two minds whether to load this particular clip to YouTube. Not because of worries about copyright, I don’t think the BBC will mind too much, but more because (a) I’m wearing yellow shorts (b) I make a right fool of myself and (c) see (a) and (b). The news clip is from BBC [...]

“speedo cyclists in country lanes”

Carlton Reid — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 15:37:42 +0000

View Larger Map On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 2:43 PM, ******* < *******@gmail.com> wrote: To: editor@bikehub.co.uk From: ****** < ******@gmail.com> Subject: speedo cyclists in country lanes Message Body: Hi the village lanes around kingston seymour are flat - we are furious at the silent speed these cyclists go - today we were confronted by a know it all lycra cyclist [...]

Will UK politicians ever seek to restrain the motorised majority?

Carlton Reid — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:40:32 +0000

I signed up to the cycle safe campaign by The Times. There has been some fine reporting on the real and rightly worrying danger posed by motorised traffic but, as today’s paper exemplifies, there’s a risk of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. There are some good bits in today’s newspaper, there are some [...]

Shy bairns get nowt

Carlton Reid — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 10:07:53 +0000

If you follow me on Twitter you may have seen that I had issues with a Stagecoach bus driver on Tuesday. I reported him to Stagecoach and to the police. By Thursday evening Stagecoach had written to me saying they had conducted an investigation, the driver would be disciplined and the company would be “issuing [...]

Roads Were Not Built for Cars

Carlton Reid — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:24:27 +0000

I’m writing a book about roads history and will be focussing on the period 1880-1905, which saw the Bicycling Boom and then - pop - the start of Motoring Mania. You can learn more about this free e-book in this pitch: The book will be free to download online. I chose this publication model in order to [...]

Mass motoring was soooo last century

Carlton Reid — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:21:44 +0000

You don’t have to be a statistics boffin to see the flaws in this projection. Clearly, the UK’s love affair with motoring is tailing off. It has reached its peak and it now appears to be on the classic downward bell slope. However, the RAC Foundation which uses the graph in its new report ‘Keep The [...]

I’d like to teach the world to cycle in perfect harmony

Carlton Reid — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:19:43 +0000

I’d like to build to world a home, and furnish it with love Grow apple trees and honey bees and snow white turtle doves I’d like to teach the world to cycle in perfect harmony I’d like to buy to world a bike, and keep it company I’d like to teach the world to cycle in perfect harmony I’d like [...]

Speed sells

Carlton Reid — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:39:17 +0000

Mark Cavendish’s victory in yesterday’s world road race championships put him - partially - on the front covers of the Guardian, the Telegraph and the Times. And the BBC asked Could cycling become the UK’s second-favourite sport, after football. Were he to follow up his Copenhagen sprint with a similar burst of speed at the [...]

Battle for Blackfriars: Money and power corrupts

Carlton Reid — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:11:17 +0000

In media interviews on Friday night - the night of the Blackfriars flashride - Ben Plowden talked about the redesign of the junction on the northern half of Blackfriars Bridge. This is where a bike lane is being squeezed and an extra car lane installed. Cycling groups are dead against this redesign, and so are [...]