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A view from the handlebars: a few of the people seen cycling in the 2nd week of November 2025 (+)
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A view from the handlebars: 38 of the 241 people seen cycling in the 1st week of November 2025 plus three treescapes as autumn progresses round here, Good time to cycle on the A307 past Claremont.
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A view from the handlebars: 25 pictures in portrait mode with approx golden ratio aspect ratio of people seen cycling round here in the fourth week of October 2025.
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A view from the handlebars: 50 of the 255 people seen cycling round here in 111 km in the third week of October 2025.
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A view from the handlebars: 11 of the 175 people seen cycling round here in the third week of October 2025 over 5 days and 123 km. Early autumn.
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A view from the handlebars: all the the people seen cycling on cycleway 28 in the 2nd week of October 2025 (6 trips).
About 6Β½ riders/km, a decent showing, though a disappointing 22Β½% female participation (picked the wrong week, itβs usually 35%-ish).
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A view from the handlebars: a few of the people seen cycling in the wet in the 1st week of October 2025.
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A view from the handlebars: a few of the people seen cycling and skiing round here in the 4th week of September 2025. Plus can anyone ID the head badge (R3C1)?
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A view from the handlebars: many of the people seen cycling north of an E-W line through Swan Green, Esher on rented bikes; the MAMNILBODs, MAWNILBODs, and cargo bikes in the 3rd week of September and the weekβs gender/bike type distributions.
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People walk and cycle along Midosuji Boulevard after dark, a major shopping street in Osaka lined with wide foot- and cycle-paths, as well as colourful trees, buildings, and streetlights.
People walk and cycle along Midosuji Boulevard after dark, a major shopping street in Osaka lined with wide foot- and cycle-paths, as well as colourful trees, buildings, and streetlights.
People walk and cycle along Midosuji Boulevard after dark, a major shopping street in Osaka lined with wide foot- and cycle-paths, as well as colourful trees, buildings, and streetlights.
People walk and cycle along Midosuji Boulevard after dark, a major shopping street in Osaka lined with wide foot- and cycle-paths, as well as colourful trees, buildings, and streetlights.
Osakaβs showpiece streetscape Midosuji Boulevard has undergone major changes. In the build-up to hosting the 2025 World Expo, the city began experimenting with reallocating parts of the road space: widening sidewalks, limiting car traffic, and creating continuous protected infrastructure for bikes.π§΅
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A view from the handlebars: a few of the people seen cycling round here in the 2nd week of September 2025.
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Some observations on tube strike cycling:
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A view from the handlebars: many of the people seen cycling on rented bikes and a few of the men on bikes with flat(-ish) handlebars captured on video round here, +3 others, in the 1st week of September.
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Obscured by Clouds. The SW London/North Surrey sky (from the handlebars) on 100 different days May-Aug 2025.
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A view from the handlebars: many of the people seen cycling on rented bikes and most of the women on road bikes captured on video, +2 others in the final week of August round here, plus musings on the level of women cycling.
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A view from the handlebars: many of the people seen cycling in Surrey and all renting e-bikes in London captured on video in the fourth week of August round here.
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Top image -a cyclist dismount sign is placed nonsensically by the footway in front of barriers around some roadworks on the right hand side of the road, which donβt impede travel for anyone more than the usual parked taxi(s). Bottom image - Surrey using the much appreciated βnarrow lane do not overtake cyclistsβ sign at roadworks
What? When Iβm in the opposite carriageway and there's plenty of room for everybody? The barriers are over whatβs usually a taxi rank. Itβs come to a pretty pass when Surreyβs roadworks are signed better than Outer Londonβs.
#cowboycontractorsandsupervisors
A view from the handlebars: a few of the people seen cycling in the third week of August 2025 round here (& other stuff that caught my eye), and comparison with cycle usage in Inner London.
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A view from the handlebars: a few of the people seen cycling in the second week of August round here, and comparison with cycle usage in Seville.
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43 people *possibly* jumping a red light (some may have gone through before it changed)
56 people waiting on red in the same section of video.
The same 4 riders and car appear in 2 completely different frames in the 0-200 count, and the signals show both red and green in a substantial section, because 2 video tracks have been overlaid. The green light track is fainter which makes it look like riders are jumppig the red.
Using the 0-200 count section in the Blackfriars pedestrian-cycleway crossing video, I canβt verify the claim that over ΒΎ of riders meeting a red light ride through it*, plus there are reporting anomalies as per the third picture.
PS over 300 go through on green.
*more like Β½ (50:50 not 200:50)
Two days to get your Big Butterfly Counts in!
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Width comparison of 8 bidirectional cycle tracks from various videos/global cities.
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A view from the handlebars: a few of the people seen cycling in the last week of July/first of August round here.
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Obscured by Clouds. The SW London/North Surrey sky (from the handlebars) in July 2025.
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Note that there are very few ASL boxes in Surrey, in contrast to SW London where a situation like this would get one (link). An ASL at the Farnham junction would have made Frankβs tribulations moot, & there seems to be room #postcodelottery
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A view from the handlebars: a few of the people seen cycling in the fourth week of July round here, and comparison with Belgium and Melbourne VIC. Schoolsβ (and free-to-air TdFβs π) out edition
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A view from the handlebars: a few of the people seen cycling in the third week of July round here, and charts comparing with Europe (excluding the Netherlands).
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From video analysis, the main cycle circuit inside Central Park has an elevation profile of 9.9 m/km and has about 8 male and 7 female riders per kilometre, similar to North Holland with an elevation profile of 7.3 m/km (because of sand dunes) and 8 males, 8 females per km. A circuit in nearby city streets has an elevation profile of 3.6 m/km and from video has about 4 male and <1 female rider per kilometre, similar to southeast London with an elevation profile of 3 m/km and 3 males, <1 female per km. By comparison the Amsterdam area, with an elevation profile of 3 m/km supports 22 male and 22 female riders.
NYC cycle usage is very different inside and outside Central Park in Manhattan. Itβs more like North Holland inside, and southeast London outside, despite inside being a bit hillier. Conclusion - make your cycle infrastructure like your parks. (see also Alt text)
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A view from the handlebars: a few of the people seen cycling (plus a few extra observations) in N Surrey/SW London in the second week of July 2025. Parched grass edition.
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