Most arguments against bike lanes are absurd. Consider this: we have wide roads everywhere to accommodate cars, most of which carry only one person. On either side of many of those roads, we have pedestrian sidewalks. In most large urban areas, we also have bus lanes and transit systems such as subways and rapid transit. When cyclists ride on roads, drivers often get annoyed. If they ride on sidewalks, pedestrians rightly get angry. Full article
Category Archives: International Posts
Outside EU / UK / US
Is it a cyclist’s right to ‘take the lane’?
Riding in an assertive position in the middle of the lane is recommended as safe practice in certain situations – but it can provoke hostile reactions from other road users
Eilidh Cairns See Me Save Me European HGV safety campaign claims first success
A Tale of Two Cities
Why cyclists sometimes opt for the pavement
Outdated one-way systems designed for a car-dominated world mean even the most law-abiding among us risk a £30 fine … see Guardian Bike Blog
On-the-spot fines for careless drivers (UK)
Motorists are to be hit with on-the-spot fines of between £80 and £100 for careless driving as part of a major package of road safety laws being portrayed as a break from the previous government’s supposed reliance on speed cameras. Read more
Saddlesore and sights: Racing by bike from Bristol to Machynlleth
If tackling a 140-mile bike ride across some of the most mountainous parts of Wales in the space of a day doesn’t sound like your sort of thing, then you’re probably not alone.
But there are a few of us cyclists around for whom that kind of proposition is too alluring to ignore. Read more
Can a ‘cycle revolution’ happen without an infrastructure revolution too?
Like Riding A Bike
Like Riding A Bike from Dominic Latham-Koenig on Vimeo.
‘Like Riding a Bike’ is a campaign designed to try and change the way non-cyclists view cycling. The campaign references those carefree, happy days of childhood cycling, free-wheeling downhill with the wind in your hair moments.
See more from Dominic Latham-Koenig
Save our cyclists: Clamour for flood of avoidable road deaths to be stemmed
A growing toll of casualties, many involving lorries, has prompted urgent calls to make Britain’s roads safe for cyclists
Urgent action is needed to protect cyclists from lorries and buses, with 230 cyclists killed or seriously injured every month on Britain’s crowded roads, campaigners say.