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Cycling in the news
Mainstream media with bicycle coverage...
Thanks to the many readers who (some time ago now) pointed out this one from the BBC and elsewhere, about a bike-based wifi 'hotspot':
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3726347.stm
And thanks to Daniel James and Simon Kellett who within minutes of each other sent links to this one, about mobile phone rent-a-bikes in London:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3856535.stm
The Third Issue of Bicycling Science gets the Slashdot treatment:
At this rather long Slashdot URL
Not quite so mainstream (though it should be), there are some nice recent workbike stories gathered from the world's media at:
http://www.workbike.org/news/index.php
And finally...
This one's a little belated, too, and we don't usually cover MTB stuff, but I think it's brilliant. Enjoy!
http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=22302
UPDATE with one more:
Stewart Russell sends news of an interesting legal ruling in Toronto, Canada, which could set a dramatic precedent (though it's subject to appeal). A judge found the city had acted negligently in designating a busy street as a bike route without making any effort to ensure the safety of cyclists using it. More at:
http://www.respect.to/pipermail/arcannounce/2004/000212.html
and at the ARC homepage.
AND ANOTHER UPDATE:
By popular request (and thanks to Simon Kellett for tracking down an English-language link) a report about a possible bike bomb in Germany...
Link to IC Wales story about the incident
FURTHER UPDATED with a link to the story about the little girl in Worksop who saved her sister after she fell off her bicycle into the Chesterfield Canal... thanks Seamus.
http://www.worksoptoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=741&ArticleID;=809441
Posted on 07 July 2004
Your comments ...| From: Seamus (etc) on 05 July 2004 |
Did you not notice the one about the bomb going off in Koln (Cologne) in Germany last month?
Police believe that the bomb was attached to a bicycle.
Or how about the little girl in Worksop who saved her sister after she fell off her bicycle into the Chesterfield Canal.
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| From: Peter Eland ([email protected]) on 05 July 2004 |
| Er, nope. Send me links and I'll add 'em! |
| From: Marquise d'Egville ([email protected]) on 05 July 2004 |
| Is that Rob (without a Greenspeed!) in the MTB story? |
| From: Ann Ononymostopolis (no thank you) on 07 July 2004 |
| Is this broken (like Shaymouses digital camera tee-hee) as there seems to be a lot less traffic than is the norm |
| From: Seamus (etc) on 08 July 2004 |
There was a good one in, "Metro," the other day which unfortunately I can't find anywhere on the 'net.
Whilst trying out his new mountainbike in front of his family, Mike Ford died after he accidentally rode over the edge of a 100ft cliff near Bridgend in Wales.
On a wholly unrelated note, my 3 weeks old digital camera which I carelessly dropped into a cup of tea (please don't ask) is currently residing in a Vacuum Dessicator. |
| From: Putting the (kettle on again) on 08 July 2004 |
> please don't ask
Doh! I have to ask now - what sort of cup was it? I recommend double-walled stainless steel as it keeps your beverage hot longer... |
| From: jes (@pedalcars.info) on 08 July 2004 |
Yeah Seamus, hillarious.
Man dies in front of family.
I've hardly recovered from the sheer hillarity of it myself. |
| From: S (etc) on 09 July 2004 |
| In spite of the personal tragedy for all those involved I do find funny the notion of someone accidentally riding their bicycle over a cliff. |
| From: Antony (look it up...) on 12 July 2004 |
As funny as someone accidentally riding under a bus?
Or is that funnier? Or less funny? |
| From: Seamus (etc) on 12 July 2004 |
No. I don't find the idea of someone riding under a bus even slightly funny. Possibly because that's the sort of thing that could so easily happen any day.
Accidentally riding a bicycle off a cliff actually sounds like it would be quite an unlikely thing to do. |
| From: Antony (again) on 12 July 2004 |
When you say, "that's the sort of thing that could so easily happen any day", I believe you mean, "that's the sort of thing that could so easily happen any day ***to me***".
There's a lot of gritstone edges around here that are easily high enough to die from. They also happen to make excellent off-road cycling and walking routes.
This makes falling off them, just like falling off any mountain, something that can (and periodically does) happen, to people who use them for recreation.
It's something that could happen quite easily to anyone who rides along them. I suspect that, if that included you, suddenly the amusement factor you derive would decrease fairly rapidly.
Those of us who do or have spent large amounts of time in open countryside and up hills and mountains have, just possibly, a healthier respect for their potential dangers and fail to see the funny side. |
| From: Antony (again again) on 12 July 2004 |
I find the idea of someone accidentally riding into a canal lock, thinking the water was a solid footpath, quite an unlikely thing to do.
I don't find it even remotely funny that a young child did exactly that.
(see the worksoptoday.co.uk link, above) |
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