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Call for submissions: show us your bikes

March 22, 2012

Is your bike  work of art? Does it make you smile like Mona Lisa? VeloWeb wants to be the gallery for your work of art, be it impressionist, realist, or abstract. As we toil behind the scenes on a variety of new content, we’re compiling new contributions for the established Readers’ Commuter Bikes and Readers’ […]

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Cycle Speedway: full-contact bicycle racing

March 19, 2012

When I was a petulant pre-teen, prowling the streets of Wednesfield, England, Boy Scouts and the bicycle were my salvation, and no doubt a relief to my poor parents. Even before I bought my own road “racing bike,” a series of hand-me-downs, and hybrids cobbled together from parts found in my granddad’s shed, […]

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Who cares about bike theft?

March 15, 2012

If you witnessed a bike theft in progress, would you intervene, call the cops? Going on a new video by New York filmmaker Casey Neistat, if you answered “yes” you’d be an exception to general indifference. You may be familiar with Neistat’s hilarious antics illustrating how little respect is paid to New York’s bike lanes […]

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Cycling infrastructure: what’s the holdup?

March 12, 2012

Back in the early nineties, I attended the first public meeting of the Greater Nanaimo Cycling Coalition. The nascent bicycle advocacy group had arranged a conference with the city engineer and invited executives of the well-established Greater Victoria Bicycle Coalition to offer their views on building bicycle-friendly communities […]

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The scattered tools of the trade

March 8, 2012

Howdy! This will be just a quick note to update you on my labours. Work is mostly behind the scenes at the moment, though I’m hoping, once I’ve separated the cone wrenches from the compact disks and the bottom bracket cups from the lens filters, I’ll be able to share the fruits. At the moment, […]

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A helmet-cam view of Paris-Brest-Paris, 2011

March 5, 2012

I recently stumbled across these very interesting Paris-Brest-Paris 2011 videos on YouTube, from Russian(?) rando “Zavignor.” As you may know, Russian riders figure highly in my memories of PBP. The action, if you will, in this five-part video series, begins with travelling to and registration for this 1200 kilometre brevet of brevets. There’s some fairly […]

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