A unique journey around the UK's National Cycle Network. Laura Laker is on a mission to experience the NCN herself, to understand how it came to be and to explore the future of our countryâ s cycling infrastructure.
A unique journey around the UK's National Cycle Network. Laura Laker is on a mission to experience the NCN herself, to understand how it came to be and to explore the future of our countryâ s cycling infrastructure.
Laura Laker is one of the most respected cycling journalists in the UK, with decades of experience and unparalleled connections across politics and campaign organisations. She co-hosts the Streets Ahead podcast with Adam Tranter and Ned Boulting, is the co-founder of Active Travel Media Awards, and has written for the Guardian, Sunday Times, road.cc, Cyclist, Cycling Plus and many others. She writes the Guardian's highly popular bike blog. @laura_laker
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Flight 1. Falling out 2. Founding a network 3. Friendship and wayfinding on the Thames Path and Beyond 4. Back to the beginning on the Bristol and Bath Railway Path 5. Maps, a murderer and mud on the Kent and Sussex coasts 6. Millennium miles, moss and an omerta 7. Crime and accidental punishment on the Isle of Wight 8. Cycling across Cornwall with a shrub 9. Camel walk 10. Laker Close, and a reunion of sorts, in Somerset 11. Progress and flipping Boris the bird 12. Chris Boardman, Chester and the 'least shit option' 13. Gung-ho hand-cycling 14. The mystery of the Coalash Triangle 15. Thank goodness for Wales 16. Laker in the Lakes 17. Caledonian people power 18. The dream team 19. Ned Boulting on helmets and a helter-skelter of history 20. This path goes all the way to Liverpool 21. Going full circle 22. They take us because we need to go Coda Appendix: The founders of a network References Acknowledgements
Introduction: Flight 1. Falling out 2. Founding a network 3. Friendship and wayfinding on the Thames Path and Beyond 4. Back to the beginning on the Bristol and Bath Railway Path 5. Maps, a murderer and mud on the Kent and Sussex coasts 6. Millennium miles, moss and an omerta 7. Crime and accidental punishment on the Isle of Wight 8. Cycling across Cornwall with a shrub 9. Camel walk 10. Laker Close, and a reunion of sorts, in Somerset 11. Progress and flipping Boris the bird 12. Chris Boardman, Chester and the 'least shit option' 13. Gung-ho hand-cycling 14. The mystery of the Coalash Triangle 15. Thank goodness for Wales 16. Laker in the Lakes 17. Caledonian people power 18. The dream team 19. Ned Boulting on helmets and a helter-skelter of history 20. This path goes all the way to Liverpool 21. Going full circle 22. They take us because we need to go Coda Appendix: The founders of a network References Acknowledgements
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Just wonderful – two wheels good, Laura Laker brilliant. This book takes you on a trip to every corner of Britain, and you can feel every bump and groove on cycle lanes across the country. Inspiring ... part travel diary, part love poem to Britain's cycle network.
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