> "In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as
an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has
receded into a representation."
Guy Debord, Society
            
             
                
        
                    
                Transport for London, in looking for a corporate sponsor for their plans to
encourage, have entered into a Faustian pact with the Barclays banking
corporation.
Launched in August this year, the Barclays Cycle
            
             
                
        
                    
                You can find me waxing lyrical about the secret urbanism of the Green Belt, over
at Urban Tick
[http://urbantick.blogspot.com/2010/10/dross-and-stim-in-hertfordshire.html],
part of their series on Ecological Urbanism
            
             
                
        
                    
                Recently finished is the sixth Tour of Qatar, a bizarre cycle race around the
hinterlands of Qatar. Bizarre in that in the race traverses a pancake flat
desert, with almost no spectators, in
            
             
                
        
                    
                It's not everyday that the current World Champion cyclist rides up your local
hill (Highgate West Hill).
However, certain organisational problems
[http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/