Photo listing: bicycles (good practice)
The most recent photos are listed first. See also photomap view.
[Image taken 23.11.23] Wigginton Road, York. A truly cyclable city is one where people can - and do – use trailers and cargo cycles. The trailer is heavy. It is full. It is laden with books for a book sale. Most of the route is off road and … [more]
Triumph motorcycles started with bicycles modified with an engine from Belgium. This is the 1916 model "Trusty".
Triumph motorcycles started with bicycles modified with an engine from Belgium. This is the 1902 model based on a reinforced bicycle frame.
Triumph motorcycles started with bicycles modified with an engine from Belgium. This is the 1901 prototype, and has a Brooks saddle. (John Boultbee Brooks was born in Hinckley, see #179181).
[Image taken] Lidl, James Street, York. [Note: No street view at this location.] When I came out of the shop the first cycle that had caught my attention in the racks #198993 had gone and this one was in its place. Also chunky. And another … [more]
[Image taken] Lidl, James Street, York. [Note: No street view at this location.] It was the pogies (the protective hand coverings on the handlebars) that caught my attention. Then the cycle. It's an e-cycle and crikey it's chunky. It's a … [more]
[Image taken 26.10.23] Folk Hall, Elm Tree Mews, New Earswick, York. Solid-looking, folding ecycle. The downtube says ebike-Lanarkshire (https://ebikes-lanarkshire.com/) It looks like a Little Fattie. It is a ‘york’cycle ie setup for … [more]
[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]
[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]
[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]
[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]
[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]
[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]
[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]
[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]
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.
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
[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]
[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.)
[Image taken14.2.23] Aldi, Water Lane, Clifton Moor, York. [NOTE: No street view at this location] A Yorvik e-trike https://jorviktricycles.com/ the owner said he found the company on the net. Once having found them and seen they were … [more]
[Image taken 8.2.23] Peasholme Green, The Stonebow, York. The lock on the cargo carrying box. Is it all one compartment? How robust is the lock? Context and links: #190903.
[Image taken 8.2.23] Peasholme Green, The Stonebow, York. This e-cargo cycle does not need the Sheffield rack to support it: it has its own sturdy doublepronged stand. Context and links: #190903.
[Image taken 1.2.23] Hospital Fields Road, York. Where Brompton owners can carry their bespoke repair kit – in the frame. Specifically, at the point where folding/unfolding it gives access to the top tube. Clever. Context and links: … [more]
[Image taken 1.2.23] Hospital Fields Road, York. A chance conversation with this Brompton (www.brompton.com/) owner revealed you can carry a repair kit (www.brompton.com/shop/bike-accessories/brompton-toolkit) as compact as the cycle. It … [more]
Vale, Dame Vivienne Westwood: designer, punk, cyclist. Her London office was close to mine so I’d see her all the time going by bike. I remember spotting her red hair from afar as she circled Berkeley Square, weaving around stationary … [more]
[Image taken 4.12.22] West Esplanade, York. A cargo-based decorating company started in 2022 in York. It's called Groni (groni.co.uk). Mat from Groni says "Our cargo bike is Triobike Cargo Big (https://triobike.com/en/models/cargo-big/). I … [more]
1000 out of 1200 kids in this school in #Oulu, #Finland, arrive by #bicycle, even in winter. 100-150 walk, rest by ski, kicksleds and car. This day it was -17°C. @WCCCalgary2019 #WCC2019 #wintercycling https://t.co/8vgDEMf56R Metsokangas … [more]
BMX track in Lalitpur, Nepal https://twitter.com/kanakmanidixit/status/1593091053485445126?s=46&t=rmMWMKPZo8gPJ5qHL1uCrw
[Image taken 4.11.22] Cinder Mews, Jubilee Terrace, York. Jez (a volunteer ‘pilot’), Julie (a paid employee) and the brand new £10,000 still-to-be-named Triobike Taxi. The Cycling Without Age project is an international initiative … [more]
[Image taken 4.11.22] Cinder Mews, Jubilee Terrace, York. [NOTE: No street view at this location] I had arranged to meet Julie from York Bike Belles (https://yorkbikebelles.community/) here today. I wanted to know if she could get through … [more]
Bicycle in the History Museum, from the golden era when Puch and other companies made Graz the centre of the Austrian bicycle industry
Archduke Johann’s draisine (one of the earliest prototypes of the bicycle, dating from around 1820) in the History Museum, Graz
Bikes including Archduke Johann’s draisine (one of the earliest prototypes of the bicycle, dating from around 1820) in the History Museum, Graz
[Image taken 30.10.22] Monks Cross Shopping Park, Huntington/York. [NOTE: The street view image shows the previous layout of the Park.] Three or four of the cycles here were child-sized. If the ‘cycle circuit’ around the site were kept free … [more]
[Image taken 21.10.22] Storey's Wine Bar/Westminster Arms (www.westminsterarms.co.uk/), 9 & 10 Storey Gate, Westminster, SW1P 3AT. Two laden e-cargo cycles. This image was posted to the Lambeth Cycles googlegroup: … [more]
[Image taken 12.10.22] St Michael le Belfrey/York Minster, Minster Yard, York. Today I heard and saw this sax player on my way through and he was still there on my return. The standard of performing around the city, including at this part … [more]
[Image taken 3.10.22] Rowntree Park, York. [UPDATE 4.11.22: The project has a second cycle: #187500] [NOTE: No street view at this location] [Image taken 3.10.22] Rowntree Park, York. ‘Trixie’ – the Cycling Without Age … [more]
[Image taken 3.10.22] West Esplanade, York (in front of the floodgates/under the southern end of Lendal Bridge, next to the Perky Peacock cafe). Tom was about to give Sam a lift home. The reason for taking the image is that Tom has swapped … [more]
[Image taken 28.9.22] Lidl, James Street, York. [Note: No street view at this location.] This trailerbike (see also: #186450, # 186451) is unusual... Not the colour, not the way it attaches to the adult's cycle, but because it has been … [more]
[Image taken 28.9.22] Lidl, James Street, York. [Note: No street view at this location.] This trailer cycle comprises just handle bars as hand holds and a wheel plus pedals. This one is for a child to be towed by an adult on complete cycle. … [more]
Although bikes and many other transport modes are banned in almost all of Venice they are used by staff to get around the large Biennial art exhibition at the Arsenale.
[Image taken 14.9.22] Bootham, York. An American with Swedish heritage whose husband works in Aberdeen and Cambridge. They visit York often. Her cycle? One of the Bromptons the hotel lends guests. We love the hotel, she said. Which hotel? … [more]
[Image taken 14.9.22] Lidl, James Street, York. [Note: No street view at this location.] As I cycled into the car park, I saw the rider of this folder head for the EV charging bays. I followed him. He explained you can use the bays for a … [more]
[Image taken 31.8.22] Library Square, York. I’ve seen a leather strap on a downtube like this once before. That owner explained it helped him lift/carry the cycle, up steps and on to trains, for example. This cycle has an open frame. It … [more]
[Image taken 23.7.22] Skeldergate, Terry Avenue junction, York. Richard bought the Kemper (www.kemper-velo.de/) a handbuilt cargo cycle on the net then adapted it to be an e-cycle. His dog was panting hard: it had been running. On this … [more]
[Image taken 15.7.22] ExploreYork, (library), York. [Note: No street view at this location.] The uppermost (retrofitted) metal strip above the top bar on the cycle took a child seat. The owner said they have two children and the older one … [more]
[Image taken 15.7.22] ExploreYork, (library), York. [Note: No street view at this location.] This trailer is attached to the cycle by a tow bar. However, it can be pushed too - as a walking buggy or by someone running. This means the owner … [more]
[Image taken 15.7.22] ExploreYork, (library), York. [Note: No street view at this location.] Longer rigs or setups with cycle trailers do not work easily or conveniently here. To have not 'tidied the trailer away' would have obstructed the … [more]
[Image taken 14.7.22] B&Q, Rawcliffe, York. This e-cycle owner chose a trailer with a handle. Very practical. He said it saves him a lot of loading/unloading when moving purchases from the cycle to the garden where he'll be using them. You … [more]
[Image taken 10.7.22] Rowntree Park, York, [NOTE: No street view at this location.] The rider of this Robin Pashley trike, is also the user of the sticks. She was on the climbing frame. Her mum said, "She'll be using a trike for many years … [more]
[Image taken 23.6.22] Minster Yard, York. Tom in a Babboe (www.babboe.co.uk) an e-cargo trike he uses for transporting his children and utility trips. Context: #183696. These people- and load-carrying cycles are increasingly popular in this … [more]
[Image taken 23.6.22] Minster Yard, York. An active travel photoshoot for the CYC i-Travel department. ‘Frank Snapper’ (www.frankdwyerphotography.com/) is making the most of the clear weather and hugely reduced number of visitors to get … [more]
[Image taken 26.5.22] [NOTE: Location of image intentionally approximate] York YO30. Where there are wheels there's a way... The contents of a shed loaded onto two trailers. The recycling centre (see: #170920) is along the motor … [more]
[Image taken on 3.5.22] Lidl, James Street. [NOTE: No streetview at this location.] E-cycle and trailer (folded down) at Lidl. The cycle has a stand plus the two supporting wheels of the trailer so it doesn’t need a rack to be keep it … [more]
[Image taken 11.4.22] Aldi, Water Lane, York. [NOTE: No streetview at this location.] I don't think the Sheffield-shaped items this cyclist is using are intended for securing cycles to (note how close the front wheel of this cycle is to the … [more]
[Image taken on 24.3.22] James Street, York. Routes need to be wide enough for people to stop for a chat see: #180471 (to for ask for directions, to take off or add layers, etc…). And there still be room for others to pass, see: #180472. … [more]
[Image taken 19.3.22] Library Square, York. A 'York' cycle. An owner-specific setup that makes this cycle even more suitable for utility purposes. You couldn't take it on LNER or other ToC (train operating company) that has hooks for cycle … [more]
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