Links

Assorted links that interested the editor and others who have given link suggestions. Please let us know if you have any suggestions or you've spotted any dead links.

Lobbying organisations | Resources | Critical Mass | Commercial | Miscellaneous | Other people's links pages | Mags'n'zines | Travel and tourism | Sport | Health, skill, safety and social justice | Amusement

Lobbying organisations

British Isles

London Cycling Campaign - including links to all the local borough groups

Cyclists' Touring Club - the UK's national cyclists' organisation

London Bicycle Messenger Association - fostering a spirit of co-operation and community among London bicycle messengers

Sustrans - the sustainable transport charity

CILT - the Centre for Independent Transport Research in London - research, consultancy and resource unit dedicated to investigating ways of improving urban transport in environmentally and socially sustainable ways

Environmental Transport Association - an alternative to AA/RAC/Green Flag, all three of whom lobby for more roads

New life for main roads - Transport 2000's revitalising communities on main roads project

SPOKES - very active East Kent group

Arun-Adur CTC

Dorset Cyclists Network

Push Bikes of Birmingham

Tynebikes

Pedals of Nottingham

Cardiff Cycling Campaign

Bristol Cycling Campaign

Cambridge Cycling Campaign

International

European Cyclists Federation
[Links to advocacy groups, VeloCity info, Car Free Cities, bicycle research papers courtesy of the German Cyclists Federation]

Ontario Coalition for Better Cycling
[includes issues around helmet wearing]

Bicycling Community Page - serving Madison and Dane County, Wisconsin

Dansk Cyklist Forbund - That's the Danish Cyclists' Association, that is.

Fietsersbond enfb - the Dutch Cyclists' Association

Resources

Sheldon Brown - a vast legacy of information about bikes from a much missed man

Bikeforall - everything you wanted to know about cycling but were afraid to ask

Cyclemaps - enter your starting point and destination to get a route mostly via London Cycle Network and quieter streets, free

Camden Cycling Campaign Map - a London-wide map showing favourite and 'official' routes alike

BikeBUDI - find someone to share your journey with, for company, safety and fun

Zoomable cycle route map of the Hackney area - courtesy of Sustrans

London Air Quality data, courtesy of King's College Environmental Research Group

Lies, damn lies and statistics - an interesting collection of info on the bike trade, cycle ownership and use, casualties, theft, training, legislation and health benefits

Prof. John Adams bibliography - leading authority on risk, especially in the context of mobility and transport

urbancyclist-uk discussion list

rec.bicycles.* archives

Critical Mass

www.critical-mass.org - Mass city cycling around the world

cmlondon - a site about London's monthly Critical Mass

Critical Mass, Sydney!

Hey, Get Out of Our Way! - a Do-it-yourself, Step-by-Step, Critical Mass How-to

Commercial

For a listing of bike shops in the borough of Hackney, see our info page.

Minx - dedicated to cycle clothing for girls with style and attitude

Bikefix - distinctive central London cycle dealer/workshop

Edinburgh Bicycle workers co-op - Europe's largest on-line cycling catalogue, so they say

Bicycle Books - Rob van der Plas's shopfront

'Cycle Stuff' - cycling accessories UK mail order

LeisureLakes - specialists in all-terrain bicycles

REI - a US outdoor equipment store

Brox - maximum respect to Rob Brock and his now classic load carrier

FutureCycles - definitely worth popping into when you're headed for the south coast

MIKLINK Bicycle Trailer System - excellent trailer originally designed for rural Africa, featuring a very classy hitch.

Traditional English willow bicycle baskets - made by David Hembrow of Cambridgeshire

Miscellaneous

Frampton Park Estate Bicycle User Group - a bicycle user group organising to provide secure cycle parking on their estate

Hackney Environment Forum - a network of groups and individuals committed to protecting and enhancing Hackney’s built and natural environment

Cazenove Area Action Group - includes information on the Windus Streets for People project.

Scrap Stoke Newington gyratory – campaign to get rid of this major one-way system in the north of the borough

Disability Hackney - the umbrella organisation for all the disability related issues on the London Borough of Hackney

Growing Communities - non-profit Hackney-based organic fruit and vegetable scheme, with pick-up points around the borough. Growing Communities also grows food at two locations in the borough, and uses a Brox quadricycle for infra-borough transport.

Lee Valley Youth Cycling Club - Timebank story about a local volunteer who's getting children and young people into cycling as a sport

Games Monitor - independent group monitoring the impact of the preparations for the London Olympics

London

Cycling in London's emergency services - four films produced by Transport for London demonstrating how cycling is helping the police, ambulance and transport services do their work better

British Isles

National Cycling Strategy links page - a good database of cycle-related organisations

Why Cycle? - impartial advice for buying bikes and cycles in the UK.

The Bike Zone - Howard Peel's excellent pages

TransCycle - includes pages on tricycles, tandems, wheelbuilding, riding fixed wheel etc.

The Roaders' Digest - a comprehensive list of every numbered road on the UK mainland. Trace the well-worn routes out of London.

International

Cyber Cyclery - a long-running international 'hub', currently run by Kiwis based in London

Bike Reader - Smart humour. Thoughtful essays. Attractive photography.

Re-Cycle - Take an unwanted bike lying in the UK, ship it to a country where it's really needed and teach the local people the skills to fix and maintain it.

International Bicycle Fund - non-governmental, nonprofit, advocacy organization, promoting sustainable transport and international understanding

Trento Bike Pages - the portal for bicycle touring and recreational mountain biking in Europe and the Mediterranean

Pizza Power -- Bicycling the Bay Area. Propagators of "a new American proverb: 'Starting [an] engine is a terrible thing to do.'"

Carfree Cities - Car-free cities past, present, and future. Solutions to the problem of the urban automobile.

The Bicycle Forest -  innovative human powered vehicles and more, including the excellent bikeCAD frame design applet

Other people's links pages

Anthony Cartmell's Links Page - the world from the perspective of a Psion-owning CTC activist

Mags'n'zines

Velorution - excellent blog by London's leading freight cycle operator

Moving Target - web version of the long-running cycle courier fanzine

Culture Change magazine - formerly Auto-Free Times, from the Alliance for a Paving Moratorium

Sport

Herne Hill Velodrome - the home of track cycling, right here in London.

LondonCycleSport.com - People are often surprised to discover just how much sports cycling goes on inside London and its surrounds. In the summer you can almost ride or race every day. LondonCycleSport.com has comprehensive listings.

Lee Valley Cycle Circuit - Also known as Eastway, this was a fantastic 1.6km circuit plus BMX/MTB course just ten minutes' ride from Hackney Central. The cycle circuit sadly closed in November 2006 to be demolished to make way for the Olympic Park. The London Development Agency is attempting to provide replacement facilities.

Travel and tourism

London Bicycle Company - Guided cycle tours of London, plus cycle hire

Empty Roads - a guide to how easy it is to travel to some of the most beautiful parts of England and Wales without a car

Cycling holidays in Suffolk - Self-guided bike tours in gentle Suffolk countryside.

Byways Breaks - A variety of cycling and walking holidays in Shropshire and Cheshire

Breton Bikes - Cycling holidays in France and that. Have been known to organise rides to raise money to buy bike-trailer combos for Intermediate Technology.

Chain Gang Cycle Tours - Operate five guided tours around France (as reviewed in the London Cyclist magazine)

Bicycle Beano - Cycling holidays in Wales, renowned for great veggie grub

The A to B Bike/Rail page - up-to-date information about taking your bike on the train anywhere in Britain, courtesy of the excellent A to B magazine

UK Public Transport Information - Excellent and up-to-date links to information on all forms of public transport in the United Kingdom

UK railway station mobility maps - Will you have to carry your bike up and down dozens of steps on your train-assisted ride?

The Man At Seat 61 - How to travel by train from London to destinations in Europe and beyond. A simply excellent site produced by Mark Smith of Buckinghamshire. Includes tips on cycle carriage.

European Bike Express - Coaches to fast-forward you and your bikes to southern Europe

Dominican Republic Mountain Bike Tours - Fun, independent and downhill cycling tours in the highest mountains of the Caribbean, sez 'ere

Impressions from bicycle travels - Visual stories from America and Asia

Health, skill, safety, social justice

STA Bikes - home-grown, school-based cycle promotion and training in Hackney

Cycle Training - non-profit company providing most of London's cycle training, upskilling all ages and abilities

London School of Cycling - well respected and long-established Hackney-based cycle consultancy and training

Cycling Instructor - new West London-based cycle training provider

Two two of these... - Life Cycle's cycle prescription offer for Bristol, reminiscent of the CycleActive project we ran back in 2000. It'll be great when people can access this type of locally-delivered service nationwide through a single point of contact. NHS Direct, perhaps?.

Cyclecraft - An excellent guide to skilled cycling technique

RoadPeace - UK charity for road crash victims

Slower Speeds Initiative - for lower and better enforced speed limits

Helmets FAQ - How well do crash helmets work? Should people travelling on foot and in cars wear them? Answers to these and other questions.

Cycle helmets should not be compulsory - An article in the BMJ by Hackney LCC's former co-ordinator Douglas Carnall

Cycle path safety: a summary of research - Think that cycle lanes and tracks are safer than the road? Think again!

Road Danger Reduction forum - Forum for road safety professionals committed to reducing road danger at source

Speeding, the continuing challenge - the facts from PACTS (the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety)

Health Development Agency supports LCC on speed limit - 20mph speed limit in residential streets essential to reduce health inequalities

Is it safe? - a guide to road danger reduction (illustrated print-ready version in PDF - 1.4MB)

Amusement

Facility of the month - Warrington Cycling Campaign's appreciation of the best of British bikeway design. Says curator Pete Owens,  "I only started the site to let off steam following a brush off reply from our local council when I wrote complaining about the very first facility nearly four years ago - I didn't imagine that it would keep going so long."