Clearing up my bookmarks:

• Reuters features one of our customers: “”Buying another car just seemed like such a ridiculous thing to do,” Natalie Steed said. “Even without the actual cost of buying it, I’d have to spend a 1,000 pounds year before I even went anywhere in it, and I can do almost everything I need to on a bike.” Steed, a mother of two who lives and works in London, instead bought what she calls a “bike with a boat on the front” — a Danish-made Christiania three-wheeled transporter bike with a cargo box attached — on which she can do the school run, the shopping and commute to work.”
• The BMJ article quoted by Boris to support his no-helmet position
• Copenhagenize warns against Danish helmet propaganda: “Unfortunately, the bicycling world has its own fundamentalists in the form of bicycle helmet advocates. They are loud and intolerant and they reject science with the same fervour as they embrace their beliefs”.
• Defensive crossing of double carriageway – by Dave Moulton
• Can’t find your keys at the bottom of the pannier? You may find these gloves useful, with LED tips
• London cycle maps on your mobile phone
• Two concept bicycles: Backpack Bicycle – fold it and carry it on your back; One – fold it and you get a hat-box.
• Five Better Bike Racks – via CoolHunting
• In Japan the automobile is losing its emotional appeal, particularly among the young, who prefer to spend their money on the latest electronic gadgets: “Having a car is so 20th century.” [Newsweek]
• Bicycle Belles – photography competition: A celebration of women’s cycling in Lambeth through photography.
• Kensington and Chelsea are to trial a scheme by which cyclists will be allowed to go the ‘wrong way’ down one-way streets. – Londonist
• Hungarian cycle promotion spot
• Dunwich Dynamo 2008 ride was blessed by perfect weather – Short video on ITV or long podcast on the BikeShow
• Department for Transport (DfT) delaying the introduction of the EU legislation on the fitting of ‘blind-spot’ mirrors to LGV/HGV/lorries – Moving Target

Image previously published by Mikael