Amsterdam Bicycles – 82 pictures of bicycles taken during 73 minutes. Done often before but always effective. An old friend comes home. The story of a beautiful frame built by Dave Moulton Like being taken under by a shark – Buffalo Bill interviews messenger crushed by lorry. New Bicycle Bridge in Copenhagen – While Ken promises, Copenhagen is already implementing ‘bicycle fast highways’; via Copenhagenize. Cyclore Paris – Fixie workshop underground [The Aesthetic Poetic]. Image by Roxy

Dave Moulton has an excellent post on the malaise that is gripping our Police. He contrasts the past: It used to be a requirement in the British police that applicants be at least six feet tall; add the tall helmet to that and they would appear to be nearer seven feet. Then sit them on the good old British “Sit up and beg” roadster bike, that the average person would need a step ladder to mount, and they would stand out in traffic like a [...]

Mark, of the very informative I Bike London blog, has a comprehensive review. Here is an excerpt: This bike is a real fixie-killer, too. It’s got all the uncluttered elegance of a fixed wheel bike, and handles superbly due to its tiny 20” high-pressure wheels and rigid frame – you could fling this bike around any urban obstacle course and it would perform outstandingly for you. But this is no single speed hipster fad bike; concealed inside the rear wheel is a Sturmey-Archer S2C 2-speed [...]