Benefits of a Bike (with added dubious claims of Bike - Earth interaction

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What's Going on

So I'm aware we haven't had that much to say or ourselves recently, here is where we are at with campaigning. The Woman From The Council (TWFTC) has been back in-touch about re-lining and the Knaresborough  Rd  apparently they have gone back to their sub-contractor who have proposed little or no cycleways or some such on their detail drawings.  Anyway TWFTC has headed off on holiday for a fortnight but she did say she wanted to...

The voice of reason

This marvellous poem by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy first published in the guardian, comments on our Olympic success and the state of the nation. It also asks for more cycle lanes so here it is in full. She is worth her barrel of sherry I reckon. Translating the British, 2012 A summer of rain, then a gap in the clouds and The Queen jumped from the sky to the cheering crowds. We speak Shakespeare here, a hundred tongues, one-voiced; the...

The Halo Effect and how the CTC shot itself in the foot

So it really happened, Bradley Wiggins exceeds everyone, except perhaps his own expectations by winning the tour de France and the Olympic time trial in imperious style. How can we use cycling's current  stellar popularity to get the cycle lobby taken more seriously on the nations Roads?  The CTC's approach to politely criticise Lord Wiggins of Modshire when he comments on the tragic death of a cyclist near the Olympic park seems to...