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The Quirks of Dutch Bikes, and Don’t Ride without Fenders
Yesterday I was fitting a new saddle to my Batavus Personal Bike, and because it was the second one I’d bought for this bike (had to take it to bike shop that time because it was so tight from the factory), I had a spare Ergon model. I’ll get back to that later. Fitting the…
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Are Most EV Drivers Climate Deniers?
I’ve been part of my local EV owners group for getting on for a year now. Who do I see there? Well, mostly older people with disposable income. Buying 2 ton cars from Tesla and others. They have petrol cars as well, big detached houses, go on far flung holidays etc. It’s not enough to…
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My letter to West Sussex County Council regarding bicycle infrastructure
This was sent in November 2017 (and lead to nothing as you would expect). WSCC now appear to be focusing more on cycling short distances and discouraging people from driving fossils on those trips especially. But sadly this just extends to telling people to ride bikes and not installing any infrastructure that would give them…
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What’s the Actual Solution for Sustainable Suburban Travel?
Considering most people’s commutes and daily errands are easily eBike compatible distances, even in big countries like the US. It’s quite obvious that we’re utterly failing in tackling our desperate climate and air pollution crises. Not only would it be far cheaper to incentivise cycling and eBikes, electric kick scooters etc, but we would get…
