Sunday 29 January 2012

Fixing up a spare bike

I've been busy today working on Anna's old bike.
The plan was to get it running in some sort of passable condition for use as a spare.

Specifications for the Sinclair C5 Electric Vehicle


The Sinclair C5
Picture from the Sinclair Research website

Read my C5 review here.


Size
  • Overall length: 1.744m (5' 9")

Saturday 28 January 2012

Under the Bourg Walk: How to develop a "cycle town"

"The Bourg Walk" pedestrian and cycle bridge - the landmark cycle route showpiece in Aylesbury (a town in England). 
Four of the town's nine cycle routes run across the bridge.
  • Build some off-road cycleways (cycle paths)
  1. the biggest thing that puts off potential cyclists is having to cycle in the gutter while traffic whizzes past
  2. marking a narrow "cycle lane" on a narrow road just isn't the same - especially if most of the vehicles have to overlap the marked-off cycle lane to use the road!

Thursday 12 January 2012

Long Term Test: Park Tool Shop Cone Wrench

Length of test period so far: got it 11 January 2011
Product obtained from: Chain Reaction Cycles via Internet
Product obtained by: personal purchase through "regular" sources
Price paid: approx. £8 sterling (c. $12 US, 10 Euros), including delivery
Second Gear rating (marks out of 10): 8, but only used it for one job

Tuesday 10 January 2012

The Cycling Family

multi-modal transport - it's why I own a folding bike!
Today, all three of us have already all used our bikes, and it is not yet 9 a.m.!

I was the first - I folded up my little Cinzia folding bicycle and put it in the boot (trunk) of our car (automobile).
Drove down to the dealers for the annual service on the car.
Unfolded the bike, and cycled home.

Sunday 8 January 2012