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Wayfinding – Miles or Minutes?

Back in July we attended a subgroup meeting with the Council. One of the hot topics at this session was Wayfinding – how to direct cyclists to where they want to get to and how to best to describe the length of their journey.

Have you got something meaningful, serious or even funny to say about cycling? 

Do you find cycling around Leeds a challenge, easy, exasperating or just very dangerous?

If so, then our blog pages are available for your use.

Don't just sound off on Facebook - your post will vanish in no time.  Tell us what you think here too.

We're not promising immortality but at least you'll be able to link to your post whenever you like.  Photos and pictures are definitely welcome too - preferably not as random as the one below.

GOOD EASY RIDE on Saturday!

STARTING at the chessboards outside the Art Gallery as always, we cycled up past the Leeds Arena, the Pedallers Arms bicycle workshop, the Cycle Superhighway and East End Park.  At Hunslet we were shown the magnificent interiors of the Garden Gate, beautiful tiles.  Our refreshment stop was at Venus which now has excellent outdoor seating as well as the menu of superb value Turkish food.

Join us again next Saturday morning for another Easy Ride to help in particular those new to or returning to cycling.

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One of our members, Tony Read, recently visited Amiens. This is his cycle orientated account.

Amiens in a large city in northern France.  It’s the capital of Picardy and just south of all the Somme battlefields that were so bitterly contested a hundred years ago.  Population wise it’s somewhat smaller than Leeds and not so spread out; however like Leeds it has quite a large city centre.  In spent a few days there in early December.  I had a bike with me and it was interesting to compare cycling there and in Leeds.

As probably all of us know by now, Google does not pay its fair share of tax, and does many other evil things like spying on us and manipulating search results.

However, good news!  There are many other search engines out there to use, for example Yandex and Baidu, but one of particular interest is Ecosia.  Not only does Ecosia produce excellent search results, it has a strong environmental ethos - it donates 80% of its surplus income to the common good.  Currently it is focussing on tree planting.