[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_oK076OApk]
‘Bicycle Maintenance’ by Dave Walker
Hope ya’ll had a nice Halloween and full moon
Also, we’ve found a video about us from 2009! ps we’re not called Bicycology, that’s something else, and sadly we don’t have women’s only sessions on Sundays anymore
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcrInCw7lME]
Soundsystem Pedals featured in a music video by London-based band, Pseudo Nippon.
[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/48535026 w=500&h=281]
Pseudo Nippon – Universal Brotherhood (Cops say ow) from Myles Painter on Vimeo.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgCqz3l33kU]
‘Motherfucking Bike’ by Sons of Science
Yo – The Broken Spoke Bicycle Coop is opening in Oxford!
They already have an impressive schedule: open workshops, group sessions, women’s night, build a bike sessions, beginner -advanced and wheel build courses, etc.
But the BEST PART: for their opening they’re having an ALLEYCAT!
Coming to Utrecht, Netherlands!
For bike punks, bike freaks, and lunatics on two wheels…Last year there were wheel building workshops, tall bike jousting, welding workshops, bakfiets racing, bike building, bike wars, and more. Prepare for more epic fun in this fietsival [fiets = bike in Dutch]!
28th – 30th September 2012
@ Maarsenbroeksedijk 9
and what is a bike war? here’s an example from DK:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UPz_BoLYvs]
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http://releasethewolves.org/
“Collaborating with ROCKINGHAM ESTATE PLAY ASSOCIATION, MINT STREET ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND, OASIS ADVENTURE PLAY, GOTITAS DE SABOR AND PEMBROKE HOUSE COMMUNITY GARDEN.
ITS GONNA BE BIG.
each youth group is crafting up some next level madness and we’ll be racing these hyper velocity machines round the heygate on SEPTEMBER 1ST. kicks off at 2pm. you all invited. it will be a very exciting and very fun day and we will probably have a barbeque and everyone can plug their phones into the soundsystem and then we will present all the awards and mums might even cry.”
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNwD7hW04Os&w=420&h=315]
Some of our fellow comrades and fellows of the London cycling community were arrested on Friday’s Critical Mass, coinciding with the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. The total number of arrests is unknown for now, though up to 130 have been noted.
On of our chumrades has written: “For collectively riding my bicycle on the streets of London last night I was brutally baton charged by maniacal police officers, manhandled, threatened, abused and then kettled before being arrested (without a single warning of any law that I had broken) and put onto a bus with about twenty other people. I was driven to Charing Cross police station and was made to stay on that bus for 8 hours, being let out once to piss. I was subjected to completely inappropriate police jokes about water-boarding, bullied, verbally abused, and intimidated by officers.
I am bailed to return to the police station in September to see if they have the balls to charge me with anything. Until that happy time I am:
1. Not to go within 100 yards of any Olympic venue.
2. Not to enter any Olympic only carriageway, unless that carriageway is open to all traffic at that specific time. (Whose streets?)
3. Not to enter the borough of Newham whilst in possession of a cycle.
4. Take part in any activity that disrupts the intended or anticipated official activities of the Olympic games.
Thank you to you beautiful comrades who cycled ‘furiously’ after the arrest bus to the cop shop and lurked around on the street corners until the small hours like beautiful anarchic rain clouds. Love to you all, lets fight like we’ve never won and live like we’ve never lost.
Fuck the Police.
Fuck the Olympics.”
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