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Bike Politics, across time …
With Aurora Trujillo I’m busy working towards next week’s Bicycle Politics workshop, which we’re holding at the Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster University. And this morning I’ve received a...
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Bicycle Politics workshop report
Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster University 16th and 17th September 2010 There were participants from across the planet – South Africa, India, Australia, the US, Spain, Denmark, Ireland and...
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Building a British cycling culture: can Copenhagen show the way?
My thoughts following my recent trip to Copenhagen have been posted on the international, collaborative blog, On Our Own Two Wheels. But given I’m committted to those thoughts and the discussions which...
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Building Cycling Culture/s – programme
How big can cycling get, and how do we get there? How might the size of cycling affect what cycling looks like? As we work to make cycling bigger and better than it currently is, Building Cycling...
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A cultural politics of cycling, 1
Over the next week or so, and ahead of the Building Cycling Cultures event I’m helping organise in Leicester next month, I’m assembling a few still sketchy thoughts with the hope of developing a...
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A cultural politics of cycling, 2
For more than half a century cycling has been marginalised. Marginalised practices tend to produce marginalised identities. To be a cyclist puts you on the edge. And we develop attachments to, and...
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Cycling cultures, cycling politics: riding through the time of the car
A few people responded to my recent posts on the concepts of cycling culture/s and cycling politics. One was Dave Barker. After some shorter exchanges, Dave offered to put his thoughts down at greater...
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Freewheelers Bicycle Workshop
I’m a fairly incompetent and very low in confidence bicycle mechanic. Between us Sue and I manage to keep our family’s growing stable of bikes on the road for most of the year, fixing punctures,...
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Cycling and the politics of time
Something that struck me time and again, talking to people during the Understanding Walking and Cycling project, was the interconnections between cycling and time. I’ll begin with two observations...
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Cycling advocacy and the global future
There is no global cycling policy and globally cycling’s future will emerge from multiple and intersecting trends, including: responses to big planetary challenges such as climate change, the end of...
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Get Britain Cycling?
The sun’s out, the temperature’s rising. Spring seemed to take forever to arrive but suddenly now it’s here; everything’s going green, and yellow, and blue – there’s colour everywhere! At this time of...
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Wide Open Road
There are parts of England, never mind Britain, where it’s possible to do a long day’s ride almost entirely on A and B roads (for those who live elsewhere, that’s big roads) yet rarely see a truck or...
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