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Photo listing: bicycles

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A cobblers' bike at the Nidderdale Museum

A 1904 trike at the Nidderdale Museum

[Image taken 20.9.23] Franklins Yard, Fossgate, York. Three of the – very different designs of - cycles used by the Green-Link Couriers company (https://green-link.co.uk/home/york/). Other image today: #197708.

[Image taken 16.9.23] New Walk, York. [NOTE: No street view at this location.] Cycling Without Age (yorkbikebelles.community/events/cyclingwithoutage/) sociables. In a variation of, ‘Guess what happened next…?’ as I walked towards them to … [more]

[Image taken 12.9.23] Minster Yard, York. Doing the peat-free compost run car-free. You can buy composters and compost (www.york.gov.uk/household-waste/hazel-court-household-waste-recycling-centre-hwrc/4), brandname Yorganics … [more]

[Image taken 12.9.23] Minster Yard, York. Returning from taking waste to the tip via York Minster. It was such a miserable day we decided to take the longer more scenic way to cheer ourselves up. Other image here today: #197444. Other image … [more]

The first tandem (custom-made in Germany) to reach Etseri!

[Image taken 9.9.23] York Explore Library, Library Square, York. Context and links: #197268. First half of the notice: #197269.

[Image taken 9.9.23] York Explore Library, Library Square, York. Context and links: #197268. Second half of the notice: #197270.

[Image taken 9.9.23] York Explore Library, Library Square, York. Abandoned cycle. Taking up not ‘just’ a supporting/securing place but also space that could be used by a larger design (a ‘york’ cycle) or a family/group sharing locks. I’ll … [more]

[Image taken 9.9.23] Horner Street, junction with Wilberforce Avenue, York. The busker who owns and adapted this Pashley trike has a car. However he said cycling is the best way to get around town with his kit. Other images today: #197266, … [more]

A cyclist by a cedar tree near The Royal Pump Rooms, Leamington Spa.

Cycle space on the Wensleydale Railway - in a former British Rail Pacer railcar.

[Image taken 28.8.23] Reading Cafe, Rowntree Park, York. [NOTE: No street view at this exact location.] Despite so much text on the frame I can’t work out what the cycle is. Context and links: #197005.

[Image taken 28.8.23] Reading Cafe, Rowntree Park, York. [NOTE: No street view at this exact location.] If the child in the front seat pedals, s/he contributes to making the cycle move (and keeps warm.) Context and links: #197005.

[Image taken 28.8.23] Reading Cafe, Rowntree Park, York. [NOTE: No street view at this exact location.] This cycle was at the Reading Cafe https://exploreyork.org.uk/cafes/rowntree-park-york-reading-cafe/ The owner told me [they'd] got it … [more]

[Image taken 28.8.23] Millennium Bridge (western side/Rowntree Park end), York. [NOTE: No street view at this exact location.] The plans for the redevelopment of Denning’s Yard (context: #187856) include allotments with cycle parking. Since … [more]

[Image taken 28.8.23] Millennium Bridge (western side/Rowntree Park end), York. [NOTE: No street view at this exact location.] Compost John (www.facebook.com/CompostJohn/) 'Professor Fiddlesticks' (https://uk.linkedin.com/in/johncossham) on … [more]

Cycle taxi at the Musée d'Orsay

Interesting bike and dead-end road by moorings on the Seine

Bikes and dead-end road by moorings on the Seine

[Image taken 20.8.23] King’s Square, York. Performance cycle (and, in background, performer adjusting his attire prior to starting an act involving a unicycle). Performer – Stanley Youngman according to the name on his trike - in action in … [more]

[Image taken 20.8.23] Blake Street junction with Duncombe Place, York. Context and link: #196877. SyncLink attachment: https://kent.bike/products/kazam-link-co-pilot-spare-synclink-hitch

[Image taken 20.8.23] Blake Street junction with Duncombe Place, York. I hadn’t heard of ‘SyncLink’. It was the colour of the ‘tagalong’ (https://www.cyclinguk.org/article/campaigns-guide/guide-tag-longs-trailer-bikes) attachment that … [more]

BICYCLE powered CAR! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMVE-ZX058w

I don't know if this bike is used or if it's a 'feature' of the shop.

[Image taken 17.8.23] Lidl, James Street, York. A very solid-looking Yorvik trike (https://jorviktricycles.com/) with a second seat. Definitely a 'York' cycle. (A cycle kitted out for utility or family transporting trips among other uses.) … [more]

Bike with a rack seat.

Camcycle volunteers busy at a cycle security coding event at Addenbrooke’s.

Two CycleStreets developers next to city bicycles

Grocery delivery bike, Paris

Cargo bike (increasingly common in Paris) using the general carriageway not the cycleway.

Cargo bike (increasingly common in Paris) on the two-way segregated cycleway

[Image taken 13.7.23] Aldwark, York. Locksharing outside a dental practice. Perhaps the steps and the cobbles give some protection from motor vehicles. Perhaps the unwieldiness of the trailer and the number of cycles afford protection from … [more]

Cargo bikes are taking over in Zermatt

Cargo bikes are taking over in Zermatt

Cargo bikes are taking over in Zermatt

And half an hour or more later (see #195865 ) - mountain bikers at the lower terminal of the Jungen cable car

Mountain bikers heading down from the Jungen cable car station (not a common sight). See #195866

Waiting for the rail-replacement bus, Sembrancher

E-bikes for rent at a new hotel on the edge of Martigny

Mountain bikes at the Bovine restaurant on the Tour du Mont Blanc - miles from any road access

The same cargo bike as in #95597 the previous day?

Cargo bike at a fancy macaron shop, Chamonix

Bike/ski space on a Léman Express train through the new tunnel from Geneva's central station to Annemasse

Bikes on the upper level of a TGV from Paris to Geneva - partly dismantled to fit in a standard-sized bag and slid under the luggage rack.

Boarding a TGV from Paris to Geneva - bikes have to be partly dismantled to fit in a standard-sized bag.

[Image taken] Hiscox Building, The Stonebow/Peasholme Green, York. Long-term York residents Jim McGurn was collecting hs son Joseph from a concert. It's the weekend of the annual York Cycle Rally when tandems are relatively common around … [more]

[UPDATE On 14.9.23 I saw this had been removed.] [UPDATE: Still in situ 9.7.23. I'll report it.] [Image taken 19.6.23] Sainsbury’s, Burton Stone Lane, York. Damaged/vandalised cycle stripped of parts. Other image today and links: #195241.

Trike at Mawgan Feast (there's no actual cycle parking, but there are enough railings)

setting off on the veloretro event

cyclists on the veloretro event

cyclists on the veloretro event

Cyclists at the start of the veloretro event

[Image taken 11.6.23] New Walk, York. [NOTE: No street view at this location.] Bloke in a boat with a folding bike enjoying a scoop of lemon curd and rhubarb ice cream from the Two Hoots ice cream boat (see: #167763). You get served quicker … [more]

Ad bike for book shop.

My hire bike for the day's cycling.

FedEx are using what I assume is an e-trike for deliveries in Cambridge. UPS have an e-quadbike but I haven't managed to take an in-focus photo yet.

Not ghost bikes, just part of the café décor

Trafford Sale . Correct use of a road sign (Narrow Lanes Do not overtake Cyclists ) . In May 2022 the incorrect sign was used here #182792 , glad to see the correct signage in March 2023 See #101860 reported to Trafford 24/5/22 ref … [more]

Timperley Trafford . Clover Lea School . Poster in the school.

The bike Hub in Platt Fields Park Manchester. Plenty of images of well known 'cycling' characters in and around Manchester. see #193915 and #193914 . Also photo 2014 #59944

The bike Hub in Platt Fields Park Manchester. Plenty of images of well known 'cycling' characters in and around Manchester. see #193916 and #193914 . Also photo 2014 #59944

The bike Hub in Platt Fields Park Manchester. Plenty of images of well known 'cycling' characters in and around Manchester. see #193916 and #193915 . Also photo 2014 #59944

The BBC is using a cargo bike as an outside broadcast vehicle - but ironically, in the Netherlands, not the UK - www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/entertainment-arts-65511794

Cycle parking and tourist information trike

Totally non-functional tricycle

Using a trike to sell bus tickets - obvious!

Cargo bike (still unusual in Riga) with the Latvian National Library across the river.

Bicycle parking by the beach near Emden.

Unusual - a tandem in a bike-sharing scheme

Delivery bike (with fairly loud music), Bratislava

An unusual bike for Romania; also cycle parking

Abandoned bike. I found this one lying in front of the University Bookshop with the lock having rolled out of the basket. It has a flat front tyre. It has been reported using the City Council's abandoned bike service.

[Image taken 8.4.23] York Minster Refectory, Deangate, York. A Babboe City in grey (www.babboe.co.uk/babboe-city) at the newly opened York Minster Refectory www.yorkminsterrefectory.co.uk/ … [more]

Folding bikes welcome on the 31X bus from York

[Image taken 5.4.23] Exhibition Square, York. First week of the Easter school holidays. A heart warming image on a wet day. Other images today: #192696, #192697, #192698, #192699, #192700, #192701, #192702, #192703, #192704, #192705, … [more]

[Image taken 4.4.23] Cycle Heaven, Hospital Fields Road, York. A tandem from Open Country (see: #192692) shows how long a cycle parking space they need. (Then there's room for manoeuvring in and out, turning circles... to consider.)

Village life in Transylvania - I think four houses in a row had a bike like this.

Outspoken delivery - e-cargo.

White Bike commemorating Eilidh Jake Cairns 1978-2009

Bikes at a hotel in Sovata - the tourist office says these are available for rental to the general public.

An ordinary bike towing a courier trailer

These are not ghost bikes, just an installation of some kind.

Not at all sure what the point is.

Every village pharmacy seems to have a bike outside it.

Bike (with the handlebars turned 90°) perhaps as a sign of the Punct Gastronomic Local (Local Gastronomic Point) inside. A bit of a mystery.

Staff bikes and pretty ordinary bikes for guests at the Mikes Estate - e-bikes will hopefully be appearing soon.

Just taking a log home.

Bikes at a food shop in Zărnești, once the centre of Romania's bicycle industry (although the huge factory was - and is - mainly producing military shells and bombs).

Cyclist on his front drive

Fixing a puncture at the edge of Huntingdon.

Most cyclists in București (Bucharest) are food delivery riders.

Typical for the London-Cambridge trains, 3 unfolded bikes and a neat row of folded Bromptons.

Bikes on the Elizabeth Line - quite normal now, though the two lifts to get down to the platforms are not close to each other so it's a tedious transfer.

Big bike little bike on a Class 158 train from Nottingham via Derby to Matlock

The Babbling Vagabonds! Bike-based street theatre featuring The Curing Chemists, solving all your problems with a magic injection. Although they could do with with a less modern bike. www.facebook.com/BabVagabonds

The Babbling Vagabonds are coming! Bike-based street theatre featuring The Curing Chemists, solving all your problems with a magic injection. www.facebook.com/BabVagabonds

In the Museum of Making - a lady's cycle made c1898 by the Haskard Cycle Co. in Derby https://www.derbymuseums.org/museum-of-making/

Road works and a sustainable delivery bike on Old Street

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