Bike Hugger 

From The Bike Show Podcast, a story about Eileen Sheridan

Land’s End to John O’Groats is a classic cycle touring route. But it was also the blue riband distance among the long distance record-breaking heyday of the 1930s to the 1960s. In 1954 Eileen Sheridan, a diminutive cyclist from Coventry sponsored by the huge Hercules Bicycle Company, set a new record that stood for decades. Now 89, Eileen recounts a truly epic journey and tells the story of how she became one of the best-known, and best-paid, cyclists in Britain.

Apology accepted, prosecution expected

After a hit-and-run then a tweet about bloody cyclists and an uproar online, Cycle Tweet girl has apologized on ITV. Feeling sorry or not, according to Carlton Reid she’s facing two criminal offense. I linked to Carlton’s post in mine earlier this week when news of the story first broke.

Made a thing that parses weather data into a bicycle barometer

A cyclist in London wanted to simplify his morning commute decision making between riding bike or taking the Tube. So he made a barometer with an old clock case. A servo moves the needle towards the bike or Tube and is controlled by a nanode controller that derives a value from the web. To take small chunks of information from the Web and display it on a physical thing it’s geeky enough, bonus to incorporate the bike. That’s a bike Maker and something we’d like to see at another Built.

Photo: Jonathan Ford.

Trek Soho, as seen on Flickr

Flickr rolled out a redesign, bigger data plan, and assurances the service is relevant this week. Of the 14K photos we’ve shared over the years and the 3 million views on them, this Trek Soho S Japan tops the stats list. 15K views and it was posted 5 years ago. See more photos, since 06, in our photostream.

Stupid Girl

Yesterday in the UK, a Emmaway20 tweeted about running a cyclist off the road. The story popped in my feeds and Carlton Reid picked it up on his blog. The latest update is the cyclist that was hit came forward and the police have found Emmaway20. She had deleted her tweet and account after it was spotted by advocates. Bike hate and the bike backlash are monitored on Twitter by @cyclehatred and others. That’s one way to put the sentiment in the Twitter firehose to good use.

It appears #EmmaWay’s tweet was NOT a joke. She hit an actual cyclist, from my local club! To be continued… (cc @velocentric)

— James Lucas (@RabAusten) May 20, 2013