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 [...]

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” — [...]