CycleVoodoo

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CycleVoodoo is cycling as though cycle paradise were here today.

Which it is, and it is not.

Examples of cycle voodoo include the legendary anticlockwise rides on the five southbound lanes of the old Shoreditch gyratory (proven) and the south-north reversal of the Stoke Newington Gyratory (under consideration for reform, no demolition required).

Recent cycle voodoo occurrences: reversing the flow at Piccadilly Circus to enable direct east-west travel along Piccadilly (without going up and down the hill of Haymarket).

Various trackstands, balances, feints, and checks in the path of speeding vehicles to encourage them to slow down. A fixed wheel machine is good for this. Be alert! Or you will have to practise from your grave.

Each journey we make changes the world. Believe that.

From the hackney-lcc list 080305:

"Every time you get on a bike you are allowing the possiblity of your own death in a way that you aren't when you sit in your car or get on a bus because: that nudge from an unseeing vehicle that writes off your car may be the same nudge that kills you. Cyclists wear no armour. Is that a reason not to cycle? Not at all. By being aware of our vulnerability, we are more alive to danger, but also more alive.

After all, we could all die at any moment: from a passing girder, bomb, lightning, heart defect.. who knows. Worrying about death does little to prevent it. Being aware of it, makes life all the sweeter.

The more we ride, the safer we get."

A doctor's intimations of mortality:

http://www.keatinge.net/ - 404 not found, February 2007.

Internet Archive backup: http://web.archive.org/web/20050306055622/www.keatinge.demon.co.uk/keatinge.htm

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