Category: Cycling

Cargo bikes are, probably, the purest expression of utility cycling. They allow for that bit extra – carrying two or more children, bulky loads, whatever you can’t fit on your everyday bike. The environment you cycle in needs to facilitate bigger bikes, something that is often lacking in Dublin. Hopefully, that will improve as use […]

SDCC call this a ‘high quality cycle route’ (see http://www.sdcc.ie/services/roads-traffic/cycle-tracks/tallaght-to-ballyboden), I wouldn’t. It is segregated, so that’s a plus where a lot of cycle routes are just a bit of paint if they’re there at all. On the other hand, it’s a poor surface, it looks like footpath standard rather than something that should be […]

Mark Treasure has written up an excellent post (complete with some illustrative photos) on why it is that cyclists have a bad reputation for cycling up one way streets, jumping red lights and so on: Often this is explained in terms of ‘cyclists’ being able to ‘get away with it’, because they’re apparently not identifiable, […]