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Speedlinking 9 March 2011

“This is part of the beauty of cycling – all it really takes to be a cycling advocate is to ride your bike. The more people there are out there riding bikes, the more cycling benefits.” –BikeSnobNYC

Speedlinking 31 August 2010

“Was almost run over by a Right To Lifer, that could have potentially been ironic.” –@rosewal (Twitter)

Speedlinking 4 June 2010

You know it’s been a while between posts when your own mother starts chipping you about not updating your blog…

Speedlinking 19 April 2010

“There is overwhelming evidence when children walk or cycle to school they are better off physically and in terms of their social and emotional wellbeing” –Todd Harper, VicHealth.

Stonnington’s utter contempt

This entry was received as a comment to my earlier post, Gardiners Creek Trail: Mostly good, but it really deserves its own post, so here it is. The author, Zed, corresponds occasionally with this blog and is connected to the Boroondara BUG.

Speedlinking 9 April 2010

“A three hour bike ride means three hours of mental refreshment; it would take extreme concentration to achieve that by meditation or some like method.” –Dave Moulton

Speedlinking 28 February 2010

“We have a wonderful network of over 25,000 miles of cycleways in the UK, with smooth tarmac and direct routes to the places we want to go. All we have to do is get the other people using those cycleways in their motor vehicles to do so safely and properly.” -Regulator, Cyclechat [via @John_the_Monkey]

Speedlinking 8 January 2010

“I just feel so free and just like I’m lovin’ every minute of life and it’s…it helps. It’s therapy for me, y’know pedallin’” –Steven Marmo, The New York Times

Speedlinking 4 December 2009

“There is a deeply pleasing randomness about the campus cyclists, as though one morning university officials had assigned a bicycle to every member of the Stanford community, come as you are, without considering for a moment matters of fit – or fitness.” –Verlyn Klinkenborg, The New York Times

Speedlinking 29 July 2009

“It is not quite true, but none the less often repeated, that the bicycle is the only technology with no downside…But they are near-perfect working machines.” –Stephen Bayley, guardian.co.uk