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The Cycle Parade is one of the great traditions of the annual Velo-city global cycling summits, always a chance the participants to let their hair down a bit and cycle through the streets of the host city with the local … Continue reading
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On Monday my Velo-city 2017 week kicked off as the joint host for a gathering of about 30 city officials from some of the more ambitious cycling cities in Europe, plus some colleagues from last year’s Velo-city host city Taipei. … Continue reading
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Last week I was a guest speaker at a cycling industry event called the World Cycling Forum. It was very much a flying visit in the week before our big Velo-city conference in the Netherlands so there was not much … Continue reading
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This is just a short thought piece about my experiences and observations of institutionalised pavement (sidewalk) cycling in Taipei. Because I was staying in a different part of the city on this year’s trip to the Taipei Cycle Show and … Continue reading
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Due to my somewhat curtailed trip to Taipei Cycle Show this year my memories of the week are very different to usual. Normally I would have an update on any bikes and technology I saw, but this year I managed … Continue reading
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I am on my annual trip to the Taipei Cycle Show and already I feel like I have been here a week, before I even get to the bike show. I guess it must be an attempt to ward off … Continue reading
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I recently made a flying visit to Lisbon, capital of Portugal. It was what is called a “technical visit”, where I went for two days to work with some walking experts to advise the city about some local projects. That … Continue reading
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This is a gallery of images from a trip to Palma de Mallorca in late November 2016 where a multi-national group of ECF visitors was hosted by Biciutat de Mallorca, the local cycle campaigning group for the largest of the … Continue reading
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On January 1st 2012 I published the first, tentative post on Idonotdespair.com To celebrate my fifth anniversary I have gathered together a small collection of favourite posts. Firstly your top 5 – the posts that have gathered the most visitors,some … Continue reading
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When I am doing speeches and presentations about cycling I am usually concentrating on the serious benefits and economic arguments for cycling. But I often get to remind my audiences that there is a little bit of magic about cycling, … Continue reading
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A bit of a mental leap now because I am back home in Belgium, but just a week ago I was in the North-East corner of Ukraine, close to the Russian border in Kharkiv. This was the host city for … Continue reading
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When I went to Kiev in 2012 my hosts at the Kiev Cyclists Association had an office in Podil, the Kiev lower city where I found an interesting and bustling urban centre close to the river Dnieper. However this time … Continue reading
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Next stage of my Eastern European tour and I am in Kiev, capital of Ukraine. But it is a very different tour to the one I had in 2012 when I had a day or so for tourism and a … Continue reading
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I am on a three-city expedition across Eastern Europe this week, spending two days each in Sofia and then the Ukrainian cities of Kiev and Kharkiv. Bulgaria seems to have become quite familiar in the last year as this is … Continue reading
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One of the subjects I am working on at the moment is what we call “Smarter Cycling”, the interface of cyclists, bikes, data and connectivity. However that’s not quite what this post is about – my writing on the policy … Continue reading
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