Just as you thought food delivery companies couldn't inflict any more misery on society: Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.

London’s cycling trips hit 1.5 million a day as ridership surges 43% since 2019 www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/lon...

Wow Bluesky really has the juice. Multiple great suggestions within minutes of posting this. Thank you! Context: I ebike to work as it’s way easier on my arthritic hip than the train (which involves walking/stairs). But once there I’m struggling getting around the office without a stick

Hi friends, can anyone suggest a walking stick holder for a bike? Step-through frame, and Clarijs panniers on the back, so thinking it probably needs to be along the down tube or seat tube?

It’s time for your winter* reminder. Heated gloves and socks exist, they work, and they’re really worth it! *your hemisphere may vary

This morning’s commute in central London

What dastardly schemes will this evil council conjure up next in its mission to.... checks notes... stop people getting killed by bad drivers

Not only useless as a deterrent, but useless as a sales pitch for Bosch “Thieves might not bother to steal your battery because some people have paid to disable theirs”. Maybe, but then it makes no difference whether I pay to disable mine, or just let others pay instead

Bosch e-bike batteries have the ability to electronically lock if stolen, making them useless to thieves. But you have to subscribe for £35 a year to activate this function That makes it totally useless as a deterrent as thieves will assume most are unlocked This is not how you tackle the problem!

Hello, I’m the intelligent but socially awkward nerd in a romantic comedy To make sure you know I’m a nerd I will use an asthma inhaler. But for some reason I’ll use it completely wrongly, because, who cares, I’m just comic relief

When I complained about a similar framing of this story previously, the BBC told me that it was newsworthy because it was a fatality involving an e-bike. Not because a driver chased them down and crashed into them leading to Armstrong's death and her boyfriend to lose his leg. Fuck the BBC.

And an update on this too. Thanks to your suggestion of Bikmo, who seem to be about the only insurer who’ll cover an e-bike that lives locked in a front garden at night Costs me £300 a year though. But just added a 2nd e-bike to same policy for just £10 so definitely worth it now

Update on this. We went with a Gazelle Paris. Just squeezed under £2k and it’s a very decent bike Thank you all for your suggestions. Happy riding

We need to stop calling illegal unregistered electric motorcycles as ebikes, that is what is damaging the whole sector. cyclingindustry.news/leading-ebik... www.cyclingelectric.com/in-depth/wha...

This is good. I’m a huge fan of e-bikes, but illegal ones are a threat to to the whole sector (eg TfL ban). E-bikes can transform travel but we need to regulate the dangerous illegal ones that seem so freely available, as they get conflated

Love it when someone drives fast round a bend at you, with their truck fully straddling the white line. Then shouts at you for being in the middle of the road 🤷🏼

Is it OK to sit down with a portable air conditioner running off a mobile diesel generator, right outside someone’s house on a polluted day? Because people keep parking up and idling their engines in the street, like that’s OK

Against expectations, I found myself at a car race

I don’t know how to describe it but the clouds are upside down

Just an incredible number of commuters on Lime bikes in London this week People are noticing that on hot days an e-bike is the breezy sweat-free alternative to public transport

If anyone has spotted any particularly car-brained or motonormative policy statements anywhere (e.g., from government, local authorities, businesses, etc.) then I'd be grateful if you could point me at them. It's for a thing.

We've installed another three new simple zebra crossings, this time near Edgware Road. Without them drivers yield to pedestrians around 40% of the time. With them, it's around 80%. (Based on monitoring results from our first 4 sites)

Here is a 🧵on what I think the ideal cycleway should look like, based on many years of me cycling on Dutch cycle infrastructure all over the country 👇

Relatedly, two 6-bottle cases of wine fit perfectly and snugly into a standard pair of Clarijs panniers Good to know

Reported a driver for a dangerous close pass today But to maintain karma I also wrote to a company asking them to pass on my thanks to one of their delivery drivers for considerate driving Will try to do that more. Just as important to reinforce/reward good behaviour as it is to punish bad

Oh and the drug dealers of London are selling Lime bike ecstasy pills, which I’m taking as a positive for cycling in the capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/sadiq-khan...

My e-bike is currently solar powered! Got solar panels installed at home, and a house battery so I can use that solar power in the evening This time of year plenty of power left to charge my bike when I get home Less than 10 minutes of midday sun powers me for 75km of solar-assisted pedalling

I sometimes hear drivers say a powerful car has got them out of a few accidents. But I’ve never heard anyone complain they were in an accident because their car wasn’t powerful enough Any chance we may just be imagining that fast acceleration is a safety feature?

Nice work Clearer shot of text in reply

Hammersmith Bridge has finally reopened its carriageway to cycling this afternoon! After *six years* (with a brief interlude in the middle when cyclists were allowed across) of being closed to all traffic, with cycles being pushed across (mostly!) down the narrow footways shared with pedestrians

Hi Bluesky, recommendations please (UK) Looking for a mid-range e-bike for my wife. Currently rides a Swapfiets and wants similar practical style So upright, step-through, covered chain, battery linked front and rear light, mudguards, kickstand, rack, ring lock etc Sub £2k

Yes, that’s a great one! I’ll often make like I’m going to take a corner really wide, and then at the last minute I don’t. Stops drivers squeezing you out as they corner on your outside, just as Laura describes

This was my short list of tips on how not to die (too soon…) Do add your own favourite tricks at the end!

So, Vehicular Cycling What is it, and why do you need to know about it? It's key to understanding why roads are like they are, how to survive on them, and why we need change Here's a thread I'm preserving from Twitter 🧵

Witnessed a road rage incident on Hammersmith Rd this evening Driver sped down wrong side of the road, through red light to catch up with cyclist, got out and launched a kick at him, got back in and sped after him Hope he didn’t catch up again! Stay safe out there, and try to avoid confrontation

Be Safe.Be Unseen.

Interesting article Hard to know the relative risks without data (more Lime use was always going to mean more Lime accidents). But anecdotally, the brakes are consistently inadequate. My impression is this is not (just) a maintenance issue, they seem under-specced for a bike that heavy

Salvaging stuff from my Twitter account before I deactivate, and came across this picture of my dad, who died last year He’s 83 here, and enjoying cycling up a steep hill on his new e-bike Great mobility for him even when he could no longer drive

So, how’s your day been?

lol, a clip of a Tesla's vision system trying to understand a train labyrinth.zone/notice/Aq5V7...

There is probably some truth in this. And good thing too For too long car driving has been “subsidised” by ducking the cost of externalities. Free loading on people’s lungs, lives and the climate What feels like an unfair expensive imposition is really just a very tiny step towards fairness

Excellent fact-based thread on the joys of a legal e-bike - unlike a recent 📺 programme. Please read

This thread is for non-electric cyclists, or non-cyclists, who are e-curious or just don't see the point yet Why is it that so many people are riding e-bikes now? After 10,000km on mine, let me explain what you may be missing out on: 1/15

Given what's going on over there, I'm going reprise a few of my favourite threads from Twitter over here, so that I can delete the Twitter account. Feels like e-bikes is a good one to start with today, given the BBC Panorama scare stories

AV proponents can either say they’re safer than human drivers or behave like them. Can’t be both.

Suburban Tokyo is a utility-cycling dream of quiet slow little street Central Tokyo though, makes do with these disgraceful narrow close-pass sharrows. No wonder people mainly use the pavements

on-street parking is a blight. Be more like Tokyo where you require somewhere off-street to store your private property.

But, but, but, … where’s the on-street car parking, without which any city surely will die?!?

Is there a more civilised suburbia anywhere in the world than Tokyo’s? Train and bicycles enable quiet liveable density with everything to hand