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Is it time to go back on the bicycle?

April 2, 2012

“I’m going back on the bicycle; I just can’t pay the bills, I’m going back on the bicycle, and freewheel down the hills.” In the spirit of MusicMonday, I offer this refrain from Irish troubador Tommy Sands. With fuel expected to top $1.50 a litre by summer, it’s a refrain, I suspect, we’ll be hearing [...]

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Celebrating VeloWeb readers

March 29, 2012

All the credit this week goes to VeloWeb readers who responded to last week’s call for submissions. Their superb content has not only allowed me to concentrate on other projects—video and book editing for upcoming pages—but has added immeasurably to this site in its own right. I’ve recently been encouraged to see a growing number [...]

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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

Cycle Speedway, 1950s 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

Stop, thief! Photo Credit: New York Times, screen grab 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 [...]

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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. The GNCC and local cyclists were upbeat. [...]

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