Author Archives: aseasyasriding

Friday Facility No. 3 – Worthing Road Roundabout, Horsham

Posted on September 16, 2011 by aseasyasriding

This week our winning facility is an off-road cycle track, designed to allow cyclists to negotiate a busy roundabout at the southern entrance to Horsham town centre. The first section starts on the pavement to the left. The roundabout we … Continue reading →

Posted in Cycling policy, Friday facility, Horsham, Infrastructure, Town planning | 4 Comments

Friday Facility – no.2, North Street, Horsham

Posted on September 9, 2011 by aseasyasriding

Never mind the quality, feel the width. This excellent facility runs from a shared-use overbridge that connects directly into Horsham town centre, to… nowhere in particular. It runs alongside North Street in Horsham, towards the railway station, for about a … Continue reading →

Posted in Cycling policy, Friday facility, Horsham, Horsham District Council, Infrastructure, West Sussex County Council | 1 Comment

Always to blame

Posted on September 8, 2011 by aseasyasriding

From the Shropshire Star – A Shrewsbury father-of-three, who was killed in a freak accident as he trained for a charity cycle ride, could have been affected by a fly going into his eye, an inquest has heard. Gary Brierley, 44, of … Continue reading →

Posted in Road safety, The media | 5 Comments

Acceptable and proportionate

Posted on September 6, 2011 by aseasyasriding

The video below – taken from an episode of BBC’s Traffic Cops, aired on Thursday 14th July – shows the aftermath of a road traffic accident. On a 60 mph stretch of the A6 north of Bedford, a car turned … Continue reading →

Posted in Dangerous driving, Department for Transport, Road safety, The judiciary, Uncategorized | 8 Comments

Horsham Cycling Review – Route 2 (High Priority)

Posted on September 5, 2011 by aseasyasriding

This post forms part of a series, documenting the recommendations of Cycling Review commissioned by Horsham District Council. The background is described here, and in the first post of the series here. Route 2 runs from North Heath Road, at … Continue reading →

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The Cycling Embassy is launched

Posted on September 5, 2011 by aseasyasriding

The sun shone on Saturday for the official launch of the Cycling Embassy of Great Britain. My short ride from Victoria station to Lambeth Bridge – the launch location – took me down Vauxhall Bridge Road, where I attempted to take … Continue reading →

Posted in Cycling Embassy Of Great Britain, Cycling policy, Infrastructure, London, Transport for London | 2 Comments

Brompton rim tape – does it have to be this bad?

Posted on September 4, 2011 by aseasyasriding

I picked up a Brompton on Thursday – an M3L. After whizzing around on it for a few miles on Friday, my initial verdict is that it is tremendous fun to ride, and the folding mechanism is a delight. I … Continue reading →

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Friday Facility – No.1, Trent Close, Crawley

Posted on September 2, 2011 by aseasyasriding

The first in a regular Friday feature, detailing pisspoor cycling infrastructure where I live. Hopefully it will be worth a good chuckle, if nothing else. Here we see a half-decent shared use path – which provides a shortcut across a … Continue reading →

Posted in Cycling Embassy Of Great Britain, Cycling policy, Friday facility, Town planning, West Sussex County Council | 1 Comment

‘Gridlock Nation’ – a review

Posted on August 31, 2011 by aseasyasriding

Kwasi Kwarteng is one of the bright young things of the Conservative Party. Back in 1995, he managed to win University Challenge ‘supposedly singlehandedly’ (Private Eye 1282) while a King’s Scholar at Trinity College Cambridge. Armed with a double first, … Continue reading →

Posted in Book review, Car dependence, Uncategorized | 9 Comments