You remember the moon walking bear? We bloomin well didn't see it. Now Transport for London have augmented their cycle safety awareness campaign "Do the Test" videos with a rather am dram but equally awareness disturbing 'Whodunnit' style video as well as an actual cyclist clip both hammering home the fact that we're just not very observant, really. TfL are proudly trumpeting that the original basketball video has garnered 10 million hits on YouTube since......

Taking heart, perhaps, from George W. Bush's oft-quoted declaration, the Metropolitan Police are launching a campaign to encourage lorries and cyclists to share the road safely. Traffic officers will be out during rush hour this week, helping to "educate both groups about the dangers they pose to each other" - a worthy aim, though if we're being fair, one group is considerably more dangerous than the other. Victoria Pendleton, she of the gold medal-winning pedal......

It may sound like a stage direction from Star Trek: The Musical, but plans to "rephase" London's traffic lights have been unveiled by transport czars. In the days following his election in May, Boris Johnson demanded an improvement to traffic flow, and transport commish Peter Hendy has authored a report that finds adding a mere two seconds onto each cycle of traffic lights could drastically reduce congestion. The adjustments are already underway, and around......

Now, we don't want to get into another slanging match over cyclists not being careful when using public pathways. Been there, done that. So here's a brief mention that - following (in the Camden Gazette's words) "more than 10 incidents involving cyclists crashing into pedestrians at speed" since January - a towpath ranger has been appointed to bring order to the chaos of the Regent's Canal and ensure users respect the rules. Joseph Young's beat......

Memorial to Lucinda Ferrier We've seen them around New York, but this is the first time we've spotted a ghost bike in London. This white cycle, across the road from Stoke Newington station in northeast London, commemorates the life of Lucinda Ferrier, who died while biking past this spot earlier in the year. According to this map, a few other ghost bikes are starting to crop up around the capital now, offering a poignant memory......

We don't wish to tar every pedal-pusher with the same garish shade of Lycra, but it can't escape the more observant pedestrian that a small minority of cyclists take an approach to road safety and basic manners that can be best described as "indifferent". Having taken disregard for red lights and one-way streets to new heights, the problem has spread to the Royal parks, where wannabe Victoria Pendletons can be seen tearing it up......

Triathlon? Ironman? Fergeddaboutit. A stroll in the park compared to this: the Arch to Arc, a 289-mile run, swim and cycle from London's Marble Arch to Paris' Arc De Triomphe. Only five mortals have ever completed the gruelling course, and on Saturday hedge fund manager Nino Baglione set off on his own attempt to break the current record of 81 hours and 5 minutes. Sadly, having jogged the 89 miles to Dover, his plans were......

Sunday saw the opening stage of the Tour of Britain come Thameside. Riders raced 10 laps of a circuit around Victoria Embankment, Whitehall and Northumberland Avenue. Our Flickrpool photographers were there to capture the action. Many thanks to Daniel_c_c, Simon K, Massimo Usai, McTumshie and markstravelphotos.......

As our "summer of cycling" draws to a close with our Paralympians raking in the hardware (that's gold in 4 cycling events so far) in Beijing's VeloPark, Chris Hoy's relentless round of public appearances rolls on back home with him helping to unveil the designs for our 2012 Velodrome as they are finally put forward for planning permission. And here's a nifty animation to fly you through the plans. The BMXers are particularly cute,......

Well, who would have thought we'd reach our fourteenth and final London Olympic Timetable worried that a fluffed handover in the women's 4x100m relay might let the Russians chase Britain down in the overall medal table? The good news is Team GB could yet strike more gold in the final 48 hours of the game and one man in prime position to achieve just that is West London middleweight boxer James DeGale who defied......

Gold! Gold, I tell 'ee. Gold, in them thar doldrums, damn yer eyes! Ahh, hahahahahaha! We 'opes you'll forgive us old sea dogs splicin' the mainbrace in honour of our crew what's brought treasure back to these shores. Aye, aye! It's first mate Andrew Simpson o' Chertsey and his cap'n Iain Percy takin' our golden haul to five in the Star class sailing. Ahh, hahahaha... [That's enough piracy - Scurvy Landlubbing Ed] The excellent......

More medals for Britain, and "Team London", yesterday, but the seemingly relentless success in some sports is causing a nervous shuffling of feet in others. After Twickenham's Mo Farah slipped out of the 5,000m heats Brendan Foster, BBC commentator and former Olympic medallist at 10,000m, could contain himself no longer: I just feel Mo Farah ran a very poor race. He needs to be taught how to run tactically. He's got a good finish......

Team GB's dominance in the Olympic cycling events was consolidated yesterday with Victoria Pendleton's women's sprint victory and Chris Hoy's third gold medal of the Games (fourth of his career) closely followed by team mate Jason Kenny with the silver in the men's sprint. Come the victory parade in October, there will be an impressive retinue of medal holders from the cycling contingent and we're holding out for more to join their ranks following......

And it came to pass that Team GB didst look upon their works and, behold, they were good. And on the twelfth day they rested. Well, comparatively speaking anyway. Today there are only eleven gold medals available across the whole games, the fewest on any official competition day except the opening Saturday where events were barely getting started. Even on the final day of competition twelve golds are up for grabs. Just like the......

Even though we're ten days into the Games of the 29th Olympiad there are still some competitors yet to get their campaigns underway. Two such athletes are pre-Beijing Londonist interviewees Jessica Walker (above left) and Anna Hemmings who, at 11am precisely (all times BST) will have about 1 minute and 40 seconds to paddle their kayak over the 1000m course at Shunyi, recently vacated by the rowers, and qualify for Thursday morning's semi-finals. They've......

Please sit down before reading this. Great Britain is third in the Olympic medal table. There's only China and the US ahead of us at the moment. Such lofty attainment is almost certainly unique in the years since we last held the Games ourselves in 1948. It's getting to the point where hard won silver and bronze medals in particular are having to fight to be noticed amongst headlines dripping with gold. Team London,......

As we pen this latest despatch from the land of Olympia we are hunched over our table, bracing ourselves for the avalanche of must-see denouments and prospective medals set to sweep us away on this middle Saturday of the Games. So far London can lay claim only to a share in Emma Pooley's road cycling silver, but over the next few hours the medal chances come thick and fast, not least in the rowing......

Like us, Boris must be happy with Team GB's quest for glory in Beijing, where we are currently sitting rather pretty at 9th place in the medals table. (TOP TIP - Watch out for 'Super Saturday' coming up - there are a number of sports where Team GB are well-placed to win more medals, so we might sneak up the table a bit.) Like us, we presume that Boris has also noted that London's......

On the 20th and 21st August BMX makes its debut as an Olympic sport. Expect to see a sudden spike in interest and profile in BMX as a result - it is already establishing itself as a global sport that's particularly attractive to young people untouched by the more mainstream alternatives. Britain's own Shanaze Reade is our great hope for the first Olympic Gold in this sport, and as she's reigning world champion she......

While the capital's track and field hopefuls quietly build up to their first events next Friday, our rowers dive into action straight away, though by the time they get going at 7:50am (all times BST) boxer James DeGale could already be packing his bags. The Commonwealth Games bronze medallist and recent silver medallist at European Union level, known as "Chunky" to anybody who'd be comfortable sparring with him, faces 2007 African Champion Mohamed Hikal......

Londonist's walks with One Eye Grey are always excellent, informative, intriguing and - importantly - a laugh but you can't always cover as much ground as you might like. Tonight then, break new ground with Fright Bikes, One Eye Grey's collaboration with Witcombe Cycles and Southwark Cyclists, presenting a frightful set of stories stretching from London Bridge to darkest Deptford and ending up in a jolly pub. Ghostly polar bears, well hung pirates, the......

If you're born with the proverbial silver soup-eating utensil in your gob, yet your aspirations include running a country with a long-standing disdain towards the average toff, how can you relate to the lumpenproletariat? Maybe by showing that you suffer from the same troubles they do - such as, for example, being the victim of petty crime. Just days after his City Hall chum Boris announced the Summer Cycling campaign, David Cameron has joined......

This morning every Londoner was extolled to get on their bike. Mayor Boris launched a Summer Cycling campaign, which involved having his picture taken with, er, lots of bikes. He revealed research from Transport for London that showed that while 1 in 3 of us has access to a bike (we hope this means 'owning' one - and does not include the thieving numbskulls who 'gain access' to your bike and then sell it......

Highly regarded cycle store Velorution has posted something bizarrely horrible and horribly bizarre on their widely-read Velorution cycling blog. It's a hard to follow rant that seems to be slamming immigrant communities for driving badly and not understanding cyclists, also slamming the traffic police for being from the Essex suburbs and not doing enough for those on two wheels. Trying to sum it up to save Londonist's lovely readers from wading through the original......

By Simon-K via the Londonist Flickr pool Saturday saw the streets of London awash with naked, semi naked, costumed and painted people on bicycles for World Naked Bike Ride Day. By randydandy via the Londonist Flickr pool What's it all about? "A peaceful, imaginative and fun protest against oil dependency and car culture. A celebration of the bicycle and also a celebration of the power and individuality of the human body. A symbol of the......

There's finally been a nice stretch of weather, but if you still need that final push to get out on your bicycle then this weekend is the end of your excuses: Bike Week 2008 kicks off Saturday 14 June until the 22nd with lots of fun for two-wheelers. Events span bike inspections for those of you that have let your rides get a little rusty, workshops for those adjusting to cycling around London, as......

Sport is sometimes accused of taking itself too seriously, but Saturday evening will see a historic London landmark welcoming elite athletes, dogged semi-professionals and high-spirited amateurs alike to the second running of the Smithsfield Nocturne cycling event. Last year's occasion attracted 5000 spectators to the bars and barriers around the 1km course despite heavy rain and was such a success that further similar events around the UK, including perhaps one in Canary Wharf, are......

A sign of this country's creeping Torification, with Britain's top two Blues boasting their two-wheels-better philosophy at any opportunity (never mind the traffic signals)? Or merely a sensible policy that could help get more people on their bikes? Kensington and Chelsea are to trial a scheme by which cyclists will be allowed to go the 'wrong way' down one-way streets. Natty new signs are to be introduced on six streets in the borough, advising......

New trends have been emerging with safety in mind, though some of them suggest a more aggressive culture or an apocalyptic future. For the rest of us, the Design Against Crime centre based out of Central St Martins is hard at work researching and devising gadgets to help protect your stuff and ease your mind while you’re out and about. One of the DAC’s more successful designs has been the M-shaped bike stands tested......

Forget rivers of blood, famine and locusts; Tooting and Putney motorists, cyclists and motorcyclists are suffering the daily torment of perpetual potholes, some up to 6 inches deep. The local paper delved into council funding and found that their budget for footway and carriageway repairs was £1m less than it was 3 years ago. Wandsworth blame this on the cyclical nature of funding from central government and claim that all reported potholes are programmed......