Stop me and Buy one

Stop me and Buy one

Actor Nick Wilton,cum ice cream vendor, sits proudly astride his Pashley outfit waiting for customers on the front in Whitstable, under the brand name "Lyckett and Smile".

Delicious Dairy Ice-cream for all occasions.

Why not check out the web-site:-  www.fone-a-cone.moonfruit.com

Picture dated the 31.10.14.    

THe front caliper break unit is mounted to the main frame, and there is a rear hub-brake, operating handle lever is mounted  under the saddle. 

Illegal parking = Illegal cycling?

Illegal parking, could lead to illegal cycling (on the footway)

This picture illustrates the problem with on-road cycleways.  The prevent legal parking of vehicles.  This is a common problem on this road (Shorncliffe Road,  Folkestone).

Decorative bikes

Part of the Folkestone Triennial arts festival where bicycles decorated by knitting and crocheting were displayed.

Similar bikes have already been recorded form Whitstable.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

                                                                          

What they are trying to achieve is a mystery to me.  

I am not sure that their work would promote cycling, or art.

Perhaps the next project might be knitted cycling trousers, that would make a change fro Lycra. .

Off Road cycling

Folkestone outer Harbour, with the tide out

What these two cyclists were up to, what they were trying to achieve, is anybodies guess.  I don't recommend it.

I suppose they liked riding 'Off-Road'.

It is actually a rather dangerous, and foolish thing to do, that mud might be soft, and it is easy to get sucked under.

Don't try this at home.

Where have all the cyclists gone?

"Fifty years and no change" said the headlines of the Kentish Express, but oh how it has. Over the last 50 years the population of Ashford has almost doubled. The amount of motor-vehicles on poor Ashford's roads has almost tripled, (and it will get much worse), and to add to all that lorries have got much bigger.

Raising the bridge a mere 12" was a very costly exercise with not much being achieved.

However there is one aspect which has indeed changed markedly; and that is the number of everyday cyclists. There are none to be seen in the 2014 picture, whilst there are at least seven bicycles in the 1964 photo, and what is more there were pedestrians, but none in 2014.

     My mother would have been able to sum up this scenario quite accurately, by observing that: "It is not that the bridge is too low, it is that the lorries are too high". She is right you know.

Cycle ramp

Provision for cyclists in a large factory.

No cycling beyond this point, wisely I think, but they have provided a ramp so bikes can be wheeled up the steps.  Whilst common enough elsewhere, this is the first such ramp provision I have seen in this country.
     I am not terribly keen on the type of cycle rack, nor that they have no cover.

Cycling through the shopping centre

Cycling on the pavement or not?

I followed these young cyclists for some distance, nobody seemed to mind, in fact quite the contrary.  But, there would become a time, or an age, when cycling through a shopping centre would be frowned upon. 

I don't think it will be acceptable to cycle through a shopping centre for long.

Fund Raising tool

Charity Rides

The bicycle is utilised in many guises as a tool to raise money for charity.  This gentleman was endeavouring to ride non-stop for 8 hours in aid of Our Ladies Hospital for sick children, in Crumlin, Ireland..

He was equipped with a music player and a power generator which was driven by the bicycle.