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Feeling faint: Northern Rail's invisible bike signs 16 Jun 2013 | 03:25 am
I've been busy blogging elsewhere, cycling Land's End to John o'Groats. But back home in York, I was pleased to see that Northern Rail continues to make those of taking bikes on trains feel special. ...
Moving story: Kotor's cargo trikes 2 May 2013 | 01:50 am
I've just been in Kotor, on the coast of Montenegro. The walled old town (picture) is traffic-free. This makes walking around its cosy lanes and squares delightful. Until the cruise-ship daytrippers...
Midi life crisis: Cycling the Canal du Midi 18 Apr 2013 | 12:43 pm
I was in France last week, cycling the Canal du Midi (picture). The 240km long engineering marvel, linking Toulouse with Beziers via Carcassonne (and hence, with other watercourses, the Atlantic and ...
Lost and found: Home Counties wilderness by bike 15 Apr 2013 | 03:49 pm
Lost Lanes – published today (see sample) – is a fab cycling book by Jack Thurston, of Bike Show renown. It’s a sort of routes-guidebook, describing 36 Home Counties rides; but it captures the real e...
Aye, what a Grand Depart: 2014 Tour de France comes to York 18 Jan 2013 | 08:16 pm
On Sunday 6 July 2014, Day 2 of the Tour de France will start here in York. This is astonishing and fantastic news. It means that, for once, bikes will have priority through the centre of town, unenc...
One way to avoid punctures: Ski-bikes in Germany 26 Dec 2012 | 06:15 pm
We've just got back from southern Germany, where it was too snowy and icy to cycle. The Bavarians, though, see such weather as an opportunity rather than a threat. This was what we saw on the local B...
IJ spy: In Amsterdam, even the Erotic Museum involves bikes... 12 Dec 2012 | 07:25 pm
I've just got back from a few days in Amsterdam. Everyone cycles here of course, except stag-party Brits, so I took a bike (picture) to ensure I wasn't mistaken for one of them. It worked: the prostit...
Trust me, I'm a cyclist: Honesty boxes on Route 65 23 Nov 2012 | 03:55 am
Cyclists are honest people. I certainly am. Like when that Addison Lee cab cut me up in London last Saturday. I told him honestly what I thought of him. And I sincerely meant every word. Further proo...
Naked in Marrakech: Orange juice and wine in tandem 9 Nov 2012 | 06:46 pm
I was in Marrakech the other week. Its central square, Djemaa el Fna (picture), is a good example of a naked street, in much the same way as London's Exhibition Road isn't. There are no road markings...
W2W: Walney to Wear to Wetherspoons - trip report 29 Oct 2012 | 08:43 pm
I've just come back from doing the Walney to Wear coast to coast cycle route (W2W) - one of the Sustrans suites of Irish-to-North-Sea cycle routes. (It was for an article for an upcoming issue of the ...
