Category: Cycling
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Le Maillot Jeune
What an extraordinarily wonderful day. Bradley Wiggins wins the Tour de France in Paris. The first Briton ever to do so in 109 years of the race and 99 editions of it. Chris Froome, another Brit comes second. Mark Cavendish makes it three out of three on the Champs Elysees. I just had to be…
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Smithfield Nocturne
A great fun evening yesterday watching criterium cycle racing around Smithfield Market. Lots more to process and upload, but his was my favourite.
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The Big Ride
Watch in HD over on Vimeo Yesterday, I joined several thousand others riding around some closed streets of Central London as part of the LCC organised Big Ride. In the week before Londoners vote for who should be the next Mayor, this was a massive protest to ensure that the person who does sit in…
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Tour Du Danger
On Saturday, around 300 cyclists took part in the Tour Du Danger, a cycle tour of London’s most dangerous junctions. This came less than 24 hours after a second cyclist had been killed at a junction in Bow which forms part of the Cycling Superhighway to the Olympic site. This was a protest at the…
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Scooter Takes Out Cyclist
I’ve been a cyclist for years to a greater or lesser extent. And for the last 12 months or so, I’ve been regularly using a Brompton as part of my London commute, meaning that I get to avoid using the tube. Over that time, I’ve been lucky enough not to have had – or seen…
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London Surrey Cycle Classic 2011
I spent a fair amount of yesterday morning in Richmond Park watching this “London Prepares” dry-run of the 2012 Olympic Cycle Race pass out into Surrey, and then back again later on. Eventual winner, Mark Cavendish is in this photo – wearing the green helmet and sunglasses. More photos here.
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Following Le Tour
No. Sadly, I don’t mean spending large parts of July in a camper van driving between the Pyrenees and the Alps, joining the multi-national throngs clinging to the mountainsides. I mean following the Tour, on-air and online. Assuming that you’re not “available to view” during the daytime on weekdays, your first decision is whether to…
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Tour of Britain – London Stage
Bradley Wiggins looks impressed with something. On Sunday I was out to watch the Tour of Britain come through London. I say “come through”. I really mean “do laps of Docklands.” Usually the Tour ends with a scenic multi-lap sprint around the centre of the city, but with the Pope in town this year conducting…
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Barclays Boris Bikes – A Few Weeks In
The London Cycle Hire scheme has been live for a few weeks now, and although there have been the odd teething problem such as people being overcharged or the system crashing entirely, a more fundamental problem has reared its head. Logistics. As someone who’s currently cycling between King’s Cross and the West End daily on…
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Boris Bikes Are Go!
To celebrate the new bike hire scheme in London I made this Audioboo: Listen! [Update] Here’s what else happened after I recorded that Audioboo. I cycled across Westminster Bridge and headed up Whitehall until I found a docking area near the police station opposite Charing Cross station. When I first docked the bike, I didn’t…
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Tour Series – Canary Wharf
I was out at Canary Wharf watching the cycling last night. It was round one of the Halfords Tour Series. Lots more pictures on Flickr.
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Tour of Britain – Stage 1
The 2008 edition of the Tour of Britain kicked off today with a 10 lap circuit of London running down the Embankment from Big Ben to the Tower of London and back.
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London to Brighton
Not the official one, but a group of us headed off to Brighton from Clapham Common bright and early this morning. In general terms, this isn’t particularly exceptional. There’s an official race that takes place every year in aid of the British Heart Foundation that attracts tens of thousands of competitors, but to put it…