Cemetery Cycling

Some nice bank holiday riding HK Island style with our visiting Brazilian. Amazing to still find a new road 7 years on, even if it is through a cemetery with another guest for the ride- a 1m long snake (no photo I'm afraid)...

Touring Tibet

One word: Respect

http://www.culturecycles.com/2011/11/touring-tibet/

Peugeot

Gotta love a concept bike...

http://www.behance.net/gallery/PEUGEOT-B1K-CONCEPT-BIKE-SKETCHES/2997453

Stephen Shum

Buildings very much without Architects...

Bowring Street

Tung Street

Hollywood Rd. Fisherman / Hipster Style

Wanaka

Lake Wanaka over Easter seems a little while ago now as I sweat through another HK summer... Beautiful and stunning- this cheeky little ride is a couple of kms from super noddysville suburbs, Great way to shake off a hangover! Who cares about KOMs when the scenery is like this???

6 speed

Eroica style....

http://www.vulpine.cc/Blog/bikes-tech/pretty-in-mink?utm_source=aweber&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_050615

Taiwanese Treasure Trove

Now there are bike collections and there are bike collections.... This Taipei man cave is what you call a Collection.

http://wearefactoryfive.com/blogs/factory-five-blog/19055655-the-worlds-most-amazing-collection-of-bicycles

Climbing Cardrona

As Hong Kong hits a steady stifling 95% 33 degree heat, I am mindful to remember what it is like to climb up to the snow line in dry sunny conditions NZ style. Cardrona promised some of the best slope style single-track the Southern Hemisphere has to offer, but it seems I arrived a week too late- everything was shut, and my attempts to ride the trails in the snow after climbing for 1 1/2hrs were somewhat of a fail...

Judge Who?

Today at Tsuen Wan Magistrates Court, magistrate Debbie Ng Chung-yee acquitted a van driver of dangerous driving, after he ran down and kill a cyclist having crossed a double white line while knowing that he was unable to see clearly.  She found him guilty of the lesser charge of careless driving, for which he was fined $4500.

Shockingly, Magistrate Ng then went on to blame the victim, Colin Robertson, a highly experienced cyclist and road user who competed internationally, saying that “the deceased’s unwise decision of cycling on that road ... led to the misfortune.”  She also misrepresented the advice in the Road Users’ Code to “wear bright or .. fluorescent clothing” as a constraint on the cyclist and apparently deemed the van driver, Lam Wing-sang, less guilty of the charges of dangerous driving and/or careless driving because of the clothes that Mr Robertson was or wasn’t wearing.

Mr Robertson was showing clear and legally compliant lights when he was struck by Lam, and the court heard no evidence that was not driving his bike perfectly safely and normally.

Lam had a lengthy record of poor and illegal driving, including one count of careless driving and 10 instances when he was caught breaking the speed limit.

In view of these entirely unacceptable comments by Magistrate Ng, the Hong Kong Cycling Alliance calls on the Department of Justice to urgently review this manifestly inadequate decision and to consider what action might be necessary to ensure that a) an appropriate punishment is given to defendant, b) the magistrate in question is assessed for her suitability for the post, and c) all participants in judiciary and the police are made aware of their duty to treat all road users equally and fairly, and not allow prejudice and ignorance against people riding bicycles to influence them. 

More on http://hkcyclingalliance.org/ shortly. So, beware- if you get run over crossing the road, it was probably your fault. WTF?!?

Hong Kong Haar

In Edinburgh they'd call this 'The Haar'. Here in HK it's likely just a surreal low level humidity smog. And yes, that is a bus sticking out of the Peninsula roof. Clearly not tall enough to pop out the other side a la ICC.

Chun King Stair

Something of the deconstructivist aesthetic about this one... No matter Architecture without Architects, how about MEP Engineering without Engineers?

Barbican Blur

A bit of a blurry few months. Here's some images I took from a visit to the Barbican at gweilo New Year that pretty much sum up my world for now. Some more optimism on it's way in time for the upcoming year of the Goat!

Drawing: Westin Macau

This weekend past was full of dancing with the showgirls in Macau whilst staying at the old Westin- a strange mix of 60s Brutalism and Po-mo Spanish. I focused on the former in my attempts to capture. With a little help from my friend....

Regal

I'm trying out a white Selle San Marco Regal saddle at the minute. Quite different to my usual Selle Italia road bike perch penchant- much rounder over the top, but not disagreeable at all. Now all I need to do is grow a foot taller, add a beard and my Tom Boonen 2005 look will be complete.

Landmark

Look Up.

Tai Hang Textures

/ Cat on a hot tin roof.

The Ridge

Enough to give me vertigo...

Lombardia

October is upon us...

https://www.etsy.com/hk-en/listing/126583043/cycling-art-print-tour-of-lombardy?ref=shop_home_active_10