Every month we try
to bring you the best of the cycling web - we've had
some pretty diverse selections so far, from the CTC's
Cyclehero to a journey along 14 degrees from China
to the UK. This month...
The
name should really say it all, and it should be a
fairly well-known phrase by many reading this.
Bicycle
Fixation was formerly the Living Room which was formerly
The Bike People and has, in their own words, "simply
returned to our emphasis on bicycling in the city
in the context of cultural, social, and environmental
sustainability."
The
site is full to the brim with fantastic writing on
cycling and sustainability, which together with a
few good quality galleries and a wealth of links and
resources, adds up to more than a few afternoons where
work becomes a write-off.
Some
of our particular favourites in the articles include
a piece by Ben Arie Swets from 1997 on wearing 'slacks'
and button-down shirts to ride to work, speaking out
against becoming cycling fashion victim, and a June
2007 article by Ian Fiddies on the rights and wrongs
(though mainly wrongs) of separated cycle lanes.
Oh,
and it's the best place we've seen to buy some truly
superb cycling gear - the classic wool or hemp city
'knickers'. Trust us, this is a trend that deserves
to grow.
The
best way to describe the site is again in their own
words... "We celebrate bicycles......in all
their diversity. We celebrate fixies and singlespeeds,
road bikes and touring bikes; cruisers, hybrids, choppers,
and BMX; Dutch and English roadsters and their Chinese
and Indian copies; pedicabs and trikes and cargo bikes;
handbikes and tallbikes and kids bikes; and mountain
bikes and recumbents and tandems." Or in
citycycling speak "No matter what you ride...
As long as you do."
Got
a website you think we should look at? Drop us a line
at websites@citycycling.co.uk
and it could be featured on these very pages....
