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Revolution! Britain embraces the bicycle – Independent Big front page splash with a big spelling mistake . Adam Coffman from the CTC, and Filibus rider, is quoted: “Central government cannot take much credit for the growth in cycling because the money has not been put in. This has been a movement from the bottom up led from places like London. The growth is very encouraging but we still lack a cycling culture in Britain. There is a tendency to think you need to don special [...]

Whilst this slapstick video is temporarily quite funny one wonders how the person filming the endless accidents didn’t bring themselves to go out and grit the road, as author of Copenhagenize Blog rightly points out. But then again this seems to be the way mishaps like this are dealt with. From minor calamities to major catastrophes it’s currently the case that legal channels that are meant to take the issue seriously act just as media like this does. They prefer to stand by and record [...]