Category: transport

Japanese Bike Storage

The Japanese love their high-tech solutions. Here’s one I found while looking for more bike storage for our bike-friendly flat.

Cycling is the new black

London recently had its second Freewheel event - a festival of cycling where the roads from the Palace to the City are shut down to anything but bicycles. It’s a great event, but it got me thinking about how accessible cycling is in London.
A little while ago I was in Paris and saw their [...]

City in a Spin

The London Freewheel has been confirmed for 2008. It’s going to be on the 21st of September and looks like it’ll have the same route as last year. It’s a 12km casual cycle route from the Palace to the Tower of London and back. You can go round once, or as many times as you [...]

How about this for a commute?

Let’s start by saying that I’m not a morning person. At all.
This morning, I got myself up at 5am to meet a friend that I’d not seen for a good few years (come to think of it, it may have been more than 10 years). We were at school together and I can say, [...]

2 wheels good, 4 wheels bad

After several months in the wilderness (Cambridge), I’m moving back into London. Unfortunately, it’s not into the flat - that’s still being worked on… But really, we can’t take the commute from Cambridge any longer. 4 hours of our day was just way too much. So, I thought this would be a great time to [...]