Twitter is handy, quick and efficient. It's blogging light. Sometimes I get carried away. Many of the tweets and retweets would fit in fine on this blog, but time... time is a bandit. So here's a reverse tweet post with some of the links from the past few weeks.There are just over 3000 followers on twitter - which is a bit more than the number of readers - but I thought that maybe some readers don't use twitter, so here's a catch up.I'm off skiing for the weekend - a 2 hour drive from Copenhagen - so these may keep you busy.
Stupid automobile industry - get your own goddamn ideas @larryvsharry
Pedestrians Texting or Listening to Music at Crosswalks Could be Fined $100 - Ignoring the Bull?
"Estimating the Employment Impacts of Pedestrian, Bicycle and Road Infrastructure" (pdf) Villescyclables
Charlie Brooker on BBC2 explains how TV builds the Culture of Fear (not available in my area. damn.) @duncanfwalker
Foriegn embassies lead the way to urban cycling in China
Isn’t it time to end the Taliban approach to road safety? @kim_harding
New report quantifies just how much a car commute crushes your soul @grist
'1924 report: “Cars are healthy and make you travel less”' @amsterdamized
Pleasant Italian warning sign for tram drivers: "Pass at a man's pace". Very human.
49 photographs of cyclists signalling a stop or a turn. A Flickr set from Copenhagenize
All power to Detroit! Go bicycle or go home #detroit
While Danish postmen race their bicycles here in the UK, they end up in a skip @RichmondCycling
National Household Travel Survey, " 87% of surveyed Americans didn't ride a bike last week." @stevevance #amusing
Freakonomics seems to have forgotten the bicycle. Will 'cycling' be among the promised explanations?
@alberto_santini
This is nothing short of brilliant... and hilarious #cyclechic
British MP @julianhuppert questions DfT's constant 'Ignoring the Bull' in Parliament on Friday. @carltonreid
Happy to see so many bikes parked at my local mega- mart #suburbancycling @eva_lu_
The Hungarian chainless StringBike: News clip in Danish, but the string bike features.
Saving the world, one parking space at a time @randyrichmond
New bike parking for 2000 bikes in Malmö @malmolund (click 'translate' button) @ErikSandblom @cycleville
'Portland enjoys a golden age of cycling - a century ago' 1st of 3 parts (and no ebikes or lycra!)
@amsterdamized
Anti-bike lane zombies: Amazing & hilarious @ErikSandblom
City of York has 'Cycle Chic' rides to encourage more women to ride. Ironically, the link in the last tweet is from the Make Sport Fun website. Sigh. @BikebytheSea
"The dangers of cycling on the road alone would make me terrified" #Irony? Read the comments too!
@KarlOnSea
Redhead Cycle Chic' #CycleChic #london
If you want to learn about bicycle research in North America, start with Professor Pucher's website @stevevance
If cyclists in Oregon can't hear music (but the deaf may cycle), then car radios should be illegal and drivers forced to have open windowsA propos shared bike share or bike rental helmets: Are Baseball Helmets Making Our Kids Sick?
Some fat guy working as a comedian takes the piss out of bikes instead of riding one
"Unfortunately, like smokers and gamblers, car addicts get very defensive about their habit" @KarlOnSea
First cycle chic, now subway sweeties. Next up for alternative transportation: bus babes? yes please.
Portland pushing to take over speed limit control from State DOT. (are you listening, Copenhagen City Hall?) Enrique Peñalosa: the 20th century will be remembered for its catastrophic urbanism, for cities built for cars and not for people.Enrique Peñalosa: "Cycling is, after all, just a more efficient way of walking." @sindandune
Enrique Peñalosa: A child in a tricycle has the right to same amount of space in the street as a person in a carIf deaf people can legally bike, how can we outlaw headphones? @BikePortland
I am a criminal: the penalty for not wearing a polystyrene hat... @chillikebab
Interesting conversation starter. What do U think? "Car Industry Strikes Back with hugs" @Kia_Motors
Hard to tell if guy in these pics is getting ready to ride a bike or rob a bank. @amsterdamized @BrooklynSpoke
Selling cool bicycles with fear. GOOD fear. HEALTHY fear
Fashion on bicycles from 1936 and some home movie footage from 1940 #cyclechic
Off to drink coffee, shoot the shit and clean my salt-encrusted Bullitt at Larry vs Harry's workshop.Reading I Am Not a Cyclist blog
Toss the Albatross: Bike share needs helmet choice @cyclefreo
I love it that Copenhagen buses have free wireless.Non-hardcore #Ottawa cyclist shouts out for bike infrastructure #cycling #citizencyclist @cyclaw
@stevewoodYYC
Do motorists really want a fair deal? Didn't think so. @dave42w @kim_harding @theurbancountry
University of BC: "Purpose-built bicycle-only facilities have lowest risk of crashes and injuries."
Non-hardcore Ottawa cyclist shouts out for bike infrastructure #ottawa
How motorists have it so cheap or "War FOR the Subsidised and Careless Motorist"
@kim_harding
Life in the slow lane: You’ve got yer -izes on the 1 hand, and yer Chics on the other @24orangesNL
@bikesnobnyc is a fantastic scribe, but his music video skills need work
Mica’s Goal: More Cars Off of the Highway
@ErikSandblom
BikeBiz Territory Report: Denmark
Latest rationale for mandatory bike registration in NYC is "...they're in Spandex or whatnot." @bikesnobnyc
Breaking news from the world of sport; Team Leopard's new uniform @Paybascyclechic
#BikeNJ follow up: 'N.J. lawmaker withdraws proposal to require license plates for bicycles'
Boris Johnson driver obstructs cycle lane'
Interesting that Greenlick uses the "if it saved only 1 life" argument. Why is that never used for car journeys? @carltonreid
Banning family bikes. In Oregon. House Bill 2228 must not pass! http://bit.ly/f0xbL1 , http://bit.ly/dUVF28 @ErikSandblom
@clevercycles
Another reason to keep building motorways: They provide cost efficient shade for... horses. @theretronaut
180 km of bicycle infrastructure in Barcelona. With more on the way.
Girl wins €10,000 for trauma when bike fell near her in shop! (hope she had a helmet nearby) @cyclesocial
Scientific American on helmets
San Francisco Bicycling up 3% last year, +58% since 2006 « EcoVelo @ErikSandblom
Citizens of Lego City concerned about streetcar gentrification... @ErikSandblom @ellyblue
Absolutely hilarious. Downtown vs The Suburbs
New site against mandatory helmet laws: Helmet Freedom
A pedestrian braves the challenges of sprawl @UrbanLandInst @blackurbanist
"Helmet laws arguably infringe on civil liberties" and more
Bike industry stealing freely from my coined "Citizen Cyclist" phrase? :-)
Bilbranschen pratar cykelhjälm men tiger om bilhjälm
"Har jag låtits mig skrämmas till att skaffa hjälm?" @caminomagasin
Melbourne police embark on 12 day blitz on cyclists @sydcyclechic
Pyongyang Cycle Chic and Hot Cycling Cities for 2011 @BehoovingMoving
"Cars hold more people than bicycles do--every car on the road can replace up to six bicycles." :-)
@carltonreid
Adding Bicycle Infrastructure Creates More Riders @randyrichmond @YubaBicycles
British streets too 'narrow' / 'not suitable 'for bike infstrastructure? Bullshit @KarlOnSea
Toronto's Separated Bike Lanes: Just Build Them Already #bikeTO @jamesschwartz
LOL, "If they put a curb on the bike lane, taxis will have to stop in the middle of the street." #bikeTO @jamesschwartz
