Still feeling a smidgen nonplussed by the bike ban fiasco earlier this year? Here’s further inadvertent entertainment.
Figure 1. Great 4 Wheel deals for 2 Wheel riders
Now the best on four wheels brings Bicycle Victoria members an extra incentive to get on your bike and ride down to one of the 5 Subaru Melbourne retailers.
Yes, really.
An excellent response so far from Anna: Read the rest of this entry »
As a personal gesture of respect to Sheldon Brown, we’re putting a team together for the MS Summer Cycle. Now I’m not usually one for these variety of mass rides, but the combination of Sheldon’s sad passing last week, his diagnosis of MS in August 2005 and this upcoming ride to raise funds for multiple sclerosis research on February 24 have created a opportunity to show our respect for a great personality who enriched our cycling world so much.
Team Captain Bike is being organised, so as a small gesture to honour his memory, why not consider either participating or donating? Although Sheldon did hold alternative views to ‘thons, but that maybe due to how local events were organised in the US. At 40km this ride is hardly near the arduous distances that some US rides are organised over. Please either join Team Captain Bike by following the details in this link or contact moi on telstarATcfsmtb.net Read the rest of this entry »
Brianna has done a superb job of getting this website started and collating much of what has been discussed either in the media & places elsewhere about the Connex and V/Line peak hour bicycle bans.
Introducing …. Bin the Bike Ban
Topics include:
So feel free to take the advice mentioned above and get involved. Not forgetting, as Alan Parker has commented, this ‘ban’ is yet another example of a systematic longterm problem that certain groups have been passing the buck on for literally decades. Hence why we need short-term, medium-term and long term strategies to counter it.
If the Festival of Democracy cracks out on Saturday night and the political flavour changes from Coke to Pepsi, promise yourself one thing. Make a pledge to yourself to no longer accept or tolerant the shrill ugly selfishness that has that has completely fucked over Australian society over the last 12 years. And don’t delude yourself for a nano second that the so-called leftie side of politics has a mortgage on being Caring, Understanding, Nurturing Types.
From my personal observation since 1996 I’ve also watched certain aspects of alternative politics turn into yet another ugly mirror image of mainstream politics. It’s beyond disconcerting to observe apparently intelligent people behaving like shallow, self-serving fuckwits who are either too tender of years, naive or who don’t remember (or want to know) the Australian notion of a Fair Go. I recall quite a different attitude growing up in the 70′s and 80′s, there seemed to be an attitude of broader acceptance. Read the rest of this entry »
Todays semi-regular cycling article from the Saturday Age discussing the priorities of lobbying groups and the actual perceived impact of overall cycling participation rates.
Cyclists on the rise, but does this mean fewer cars?
Six thousand more people are riding to work in Melbourne than five years ago, data from the 2006 census shows.Cycling groups were delighted with the increase, compared with the 2001 census, but transport experts were not so enthusiastic. blah blah blah
Personally and professionally I’d sooner prefer pluristic attitudes over the extremely stale us vs them debates. But when there’s intractable foes getting their opinions in the media (speaking on behalf for the rest of us who may not necessarily share their views) ultimately it doesn’t really broaden or enhance any discussion on transport options.
Although going by previous tanties, this is a comparatively minor media stoush, but badly directed and stale. If you want to read better transport related guff – head straight for Professor Peter Newman and Professor John Pucher.
The modern cyclist is making an elegant and intelligent response to pollution and traffic congestion
:: at my command unleash hell :: opps meant kittens, not hell ::
