Transport

I wish my city was this civilised.

Bicycle Anecdotes from Amsterdam from Streetfilms on Vimeo.

The right to bike.

Saudi women are not allowed to drive but they have recently gained the right to bike in "parks and recreational areas". However, they have to be accompanied by a male relative and dressed in the full Islamic head-to-toe abaya. I love the poster. It shows the absurdity of the whole thing.
Free the woman!

A Dutch cycling blogger visits Sydney and shares his opinions on the state of our infrastructure.

http://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2013/10/17/a-trip-to-sydney-australia/

Drive like an adult

Cycling in the US from a Dutch perspective

Canberra Pursuit Promo 2

Roadside refreshment

BICYCLES IN THE ANGLO-BOER WAR OF 1899-1902

Australian rifle section mounted on a couple of rather unusual bicycles. Built by the Royal Australian Cycle Corps, the ‘War Cycle' was a pair of 'tandem' bicycles outfitted with rims allowing them to be used on rail tracks. The bikes were painted a khaki colour and above a pair of two 'War Cycles' can be seen, with two 'tandems' and two single bikes bolted to one another at the axles. It was reported that these prototypes with their 8 man crews could reach speeds of up to 30 miles per hour!

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Fairfield Bike Shorts film premiere!

The Fairfield Bike Shorts community film making project has been run over the last couple of months. It's been an intensive but fun and exciting period of workshops for locals and emerging talent and we're set to launch our FOUR short films plus a behind-the-scenes documentary on the 12th October 2013. Join us for this special occasion as we take a look at what happened during the workshops, watch the films, and speak to the participants who were involved in the project.



You can join the event on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/events/502954263123329/




Below is a list of activities currently being organised for this family-friendly event.
 PRE-SCREENING BICYCLE TOUR OF FAIRFIELD
Meet 2:15pm for 2:30pm ride
Dale Street, Fairfield Railway Station
Look for people with bicycles and fluro yellow tops
No bookings necessary. BYO bicycle & helmet.
This ride is organised by the Western Sydney Cycling Network
(If you're coming from the city, head in together with the crew from Cycle Sydney: http://www.meetup.com/cycle-sydney/events/141726692/)

BICYCLE VALET PARKING (TBC)
Opens 3:30pm-5:45pm
Ride your bicycle to the event and be confident that your bicycle is being looked after by someone while you’re watching the films and having fun
Valet bicycle parking is being provided by CAMWEST

PREMIERE FILM SCREENING
4pm-5:30pm
Powerhouse Youth Theatre
19 Harris Street, Fairfield NSW
Nibbles provided. This is a family-friendly event.
Door prizes provided by Treadlie Magazine
FREE event but bookings are essential.

To book, go to: http://fbs.eventbrite.com.au/

Fairfield Bike Shorts - promoting cycling through art, story & film

The Dutch army bicycle band

Reason #37 - Bikes don't catch on fire while you're riding along.

Call yourself a hipster?

Cyclists rescue 5 year old girl

On Thursday afternoon, five-year-old Jocelyn Rojas went missing without a sound from her front yard as authorities believed she was kidnapped by a suspect who lured her with ice cream. Within the next two hours, a search party was formed by police and members of the community. Two of which, 15-year olds Temar Boggs and Chris Garcia, rode their bikes around the neighborhood to look for Jocelyn. Temar, eyes wide open, spotted Jocelyn riding in the passenger’s seat of a reddish-purple sedan with round tail lights. They followed the car for 15 minutes.

“Every time we’d go down the street, he’d turn back around,” Temar told one local news source, “then … we [would] follow him.”
The suspect couldn’t shake the high school freshmen, so at one intersection about a half mile up the road from Boggs and Garcia, the kidnapper let Jocelyn out of the car. Then, he drove off. “He stopped at the end of the hill and let her out,” Tamar recalled, “and she ran to me and said that she needed her mom.”

Boggs held the girl in his arms and walked back to the search party’s rendezvous. Garcia pedaled alongside the two while guiding Boggs’s bike with one of his hands. Tracey Clay, Jocelyn’s grandmother, called the cyclist “our hero” and that there were “just no words to say.”

The Sedentary Cyclist Salutes Dutch Cycling

Free cycling courses

Tyre-slashing man caught on camera having sex with bicycle

Annoyed at someone interfering with his bike, a Swedish man has caught a bizarre bike fetishist red-handed.
Per Edstrom got fed up that someone kept puncturing his tyres and set up a CCTV camera to try and catch the culprit.
What he got was footage of a hooded man holding a piece of paper, getting intimate with the bike. The miscreant stands over the rear wheel of the bike, punctures the tyre and then masturbates as it deflates.
Police in Osterlund are looking for the velophile and believe there may be a link to a series of crimes in the area in 2007. A 35-year-old man was arrested back then for allegedly slashing the tyres of 20 bikes, before masturbating over their saddles.
Mr Edstrom says he is willing to forgive the man, but just wants him to leave his bike alone.  “I am not scared of him, just irritated over all the punctures I have had to fix,” said Edstrom. “This man is probably completely harmless, bicycles are just his thing.”
The video is frankly a bit ‘ew’ for a family website, although there’s no nudity involved. If you feel you must, you can watch it on YouTube.
Unusual as this story is, it’s not the first instance of human-bicycle sexual relations. Earlier this year, Danish police were seeking a man who repeatedly masturbated on a women’s saddle while her bike was parked at a train station.
And lest we think this is a peculiarly Scandinavian kink, in 2007 a Scottish man was sentenced to three years’ probation after being caught having sex with his own bike.

via  http://road.cc/

The Sedentary Cyclist - Adventures in Sports Camera Mounts

Russian bike helmets

Susan Peters

Susan Peters riding her Monark bicycle along the Pacific Palisades at Santa Monica.

 

Susan Peters was an Oscar-nominated young actress, being groomed for stardom at MGM, when she was shot in a hunting accident and left paralysed from the waist down. She tried to continue her career in a wheelchair, but things fell apart: her husband (Richard Quine, the actor and director) left her, she became anorexic, and died of kidney failure at age 31. 

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