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The Sprint – Lino Cut print
The Future is Speed – Lino Cut Print
“The Future is Speed”, is a nod to the Futurists of the early 20th Century, where speed and technology were the driving themes.
Cycle Commute on the Fuji Track Fixie
This is my first cycle commute to the new offices in Central Birmingham from the suburb Cotteridge.
Footage was shot on a CCBetter Action Cam. (Think affordable Go Pro) slung under the handlebars.
Bike is a Fuji Track 2015 fixed gear bike.
Data and GPS recording used Cyclemeter Elite for iPhone
The music on the film is a track called ‘I Swallowed Hard Like I Understood’ by 65daysofstatic.
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Project SingleSpeed
I’m not a hipster… Honest. I just have some slight hipsteresque tendencies. Yes, I enjoy needlessly retro black and white film photography… Yes, I enjoy some hipster music (LCD Soundsystem and DFA records)… And now I have my own single speed push bike!
I’d been umming and erring about buying a fully assembled fixie for a while, but I thought that would be cheating a bit and go against the fixie/single ethos. About this time I’d been looking at a city break to Copenhagen, and the single speed bike seemed to be the go-to mode of transport for most Copenhagenites. So I got on to the guys and gals at the Birmingham Cyclist forum and asks if anyone had an old steel frame or bike that could be converted to a single. A nice chap called Tim answered my post and offered me an almost perfect frame. It is a partially converted Team Raleigh Europa steel framed road bike. I snapped his hand off!
Below are a few before and after pics.
Goodbye Winter
April showers have played havoc with the cycle commute recently.
I managed to complete one ride into work this week, and subsequently the train ride today felt even more grim than over the long winter months. If I manage to keep up the riding through spring, the one thing I think I will miss is the quiet moment stood on Kings Norton train station before boarding the train, looking across the tracks, through the overhead cables and towards the spire of the medieval church.
It is a symptom of suburbia that fifty people can all stand on a train platform with the same destination, about to board the same train, and yet nobody interacts. Nobody makes eye contact, nobody passes the time of day, and yet I see these same people day in, day out, and I may even end up sat next to, or opposite these people, however I am safely cocooned behind my Ray-bans and Ipod so that I don’t have to make the slightest interaction with any of my fellow passengers.
Riding along the tow path is a different experience altogether. Admittedly you see fewer people on the path, however, the dog walkers, joggers, holidaying canal boat pilots, and other cyclists always give you a nod, or a ‘morning’.
Trying to beat 40 min door to door. I’ll try and have some thoughts on buildings or something soon… motivation and inspiration depending.
MM
Goodbye Winter
April showers have played havoc with the cycle commute recently.
I managed to complete one ride into work this week, and subsequently the train ride today felt even more grim than over the long winter months. If I manage to keep up the riding through spring, the one thing I think I will miss is the quiet moment stood on Kings Norton train station before boarding the train, looking across the tracks, through the overhead cables and towards the spire of the medieval church.
It is a symptom of suburbia that fifty people can all stand on a train platform with the same destination, about to board the same train, and yet nobody interacts. Nobody makes eye contact, nobody passes the time of day, and yet I see these same people day in, day out, and I may even end up sat next to, or opposite these people, however I am safely cocooned behind my Ray-bans and Ipod so that I don’t have to make the slightest interaction with any of my fellow passengers.
Riding along the tow path is a different experience altogether. Admittedly you see fewer people on the path, however, the dog walkers, joggers, holidaying canal boat pilots, and other cyclists always give you a nod, or a ‘morning’.
Trying to beat 40 min door to door. I’ll try and have some thoughts on buildings or something soon… motivation and inspiration depending.
MM
Commutings
The evenings are lighter now the clocks have changed, but the temperature has dropped, and the clouds are drawing in over the city. This weather has delayed my foray into cycle commuting the 6.5 miles from the suburbs to the city. It looks like I’ll be on the grimey and stuffy local trains for at least another week.
The train snakes along the canal and through the tunnels, through centres of industry, great seats of learning, and the business districts. Finally emerging in the gloom of New St. The journey is a long section through the city, describing the whole process of the city. From dwelling, through industry, towards consumption.
MM
Commutings
The evenings are lighter now the clocks have changed, but the temperature has dropped, and the clouds are drawing in over the city. This weather has delayed my foray into cycle commuting the 6.5 miles from the suburbs to the city. It looks like I’ll be on the grimey and stuffy local trains for at least another week.
The train snakes along the canal and through the tunnels, through centres of industry, great seats of learning, and the business districts. Finally emerging in the gloom of New St. The journey is a long section through the city, describing the whole process of the city. From dwelling, through industry, towards consumption.
MM
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