Tag Archives: London

London 2007 v Yorkshire 2014 – Tour de France compared

Posted on 4 December 2014 by Alex Murray

So the report into Yorkshire (and London and Cambridge) hosting the Grand Depart 2014 has finally surfaced. You can read the full report here as a PDF file . Here’s the equivalent summary for London 2007 which is worth re-reading as a … Continue reading →

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The only critical mass that matters

Posted on 21 June 2011 by Alex Murray

It’s Team Green Britain Bike Week, another of those pointless ghettoising weeks that litter the calendar, like National Doughnut Week. One week of the year when a PR company tries to place cycling stories so that everyone can forget about them … Continue reading →

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Bike channels: a solution to the problem of getting bicycles up stairs

Posted on 30 November 2010 by Alex Murray

Out for a Sunday constitutional walk to Richmond, I spotted strange looking metal channels running up the sides of the various flights of stairs around Barnes Railway Bridge Initially I was a little baffled as to what they were for, … Continue reading →

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