Monthly Archives: March 2012


taking your life into their hands

FAO, David Cameron. Some nice lines from the BMA’s 1992 book on cycling, concluding remarks on helmets and other “roles for the individual”, p94: In turn, this points to two conclusions: first, that it is dangerous to pass all responsibility for r…


Cycle Chic, 1992

The BMA’s 1992 book on cycling, compiled by Mayer Hillman, made me giggle. Another set of attitudes which has been progressively changing relates to appearance. A track-suit and trainers, which are in many ways ideal cycle-wear, are no longer rega…


so it’s buses to blame.

a couple more delightful extracts from Chris Mosey’s Car Wars, on how the car came to be accepted — abridged from p39. A poster from this period read: “Men of England. Your birthright is being taken away from you by Reckless Motorists. Reckless M…


Untitled

A little bit in John Vidal’s description of the M11 link protests, from the Graun, quoted in the Chris Mosey’s Car Wars, sounded somehow familiar… Vidal was there when the tree finally came down. “It has been a life-affirmative drama,” he wrote,…