Liam Duffy

My parking pic sent to Voi on Friday night. This is one of the only remaining dockless bike parking zones in Hackney Wick now that building work on Wallis Road has taken a very well used location out of the picture.

Needed to pick up my bike after it had been fixed, so I've used a dockless bike for the first time ever (nearest dealer for the brand was is Tower Hamlets). It was a Voi, they're stupidly fast off the mark! Would be great to have an option to tweak the acceleration.

£1.75 pass for 30 minutes for Hackney residents is very welcome (and I still have 15 minutes left over). But you can't buy a pass using credit you already have in your account (I still have some from hiring a scooter in Münster last year).

Okay so I have a big ride in Kent that I'm wanting to do tomorrow morning and a bloke riding across a pedestrian crossing over a red light just slammed into my front wheel and burst the inner tube! Less than ideal.

Big burst along a seam. Definitely not salvageable

Okay so I have a big ride in Kent that I'm wanting to do tomorrow morning and a bloke riding across a pedestrian crossing over a red light just slammed into my front wheel and burst the inner tube! Less than ideal.

The importance of having a inner tube handy is not lost on my at this moment.

Bit sad this. A post on the London subreddit asking what people are doing now Zipcar has left. Many in the replies say they just bought a car. reddit.com/r/london/comments/1vowijv/what_alternatives_to_zipcar_have_people_been/

Goo morning @cycleislington.uk! I'm wondering if this is something you've raised before: I'm getting a little annoyed at this part of my commute along C27. Seems like there's a rat run that's been left open via Popham Road / Greenman Street allowing drivers to avoid signalled junction to the north.

Adding to the issue is how faded the markings are where Popham Road meets Essex Road. You can have a lot of cyclists waiting at a red here, and then drivers turning left almost into their path because they swing out so far. New North Academy feels like a good candidate for a school street also?

Any Gazelle owners ever had this part snap off one of their mudguards? I rode over an aluminium can and it somehow sprang up and took revenge

Looks like a combination of these two things? hollandbikeshop.com/en-gb/bicycl... hollandbikeshop.com/en-gb/bicycl... Might be able to get away with reusing the outer part. I imagine finding a stockist willing to ship to the UK could be difficult!

I like the idea of a trying to induce leisure / tourism activity through cheap transport fares! But obviously the Deutschland-Ticket would be far less popular if you could only take buses (trams do not exist in most of London) using it.

First Past the Post doing First Past the Post things...

Aspire's vote share actually *decreased* by about 5% since the last election. So of course it makes sense to reward them with NOC > Aspire!

First Past the Post doing First Past the Post things...

Took this about a forrnight ago. A new bridge improving connections between the north of Hackney Wick with Fish Island appears to be nearing completion. Was supposed to open last summer! (see www.queenelizabetholympicpark.co.uk/business/fut...)

Wouldn't surprise me if public realm works for developments (flats) to the north need to finish before this opens. Compared to before, will be able to avoid a detour via the busy White Post Lane and narrow canal paths—much better for cyclists.

If the transport secretary is saying privately owned e-scooters will become a legal mode of transport "as soon as parliamentary time becomes available", then planners of new road schemes need to take this into account *today*. Modal share growth for microbility vehicles is inevitable.

That junction design that they've convinced themselves is just about passable for cycling, with shared space bits, or paint for protection? Now imagine it in a world where e-scooters are legal and (even more) commonplace.