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    Written by
    JAY FOREMAN and PAUL KENDLER

    Filmed and directed by
    PAUL KENDLER

    Additional camera
    URS ROBBE
    APOSTOLOS KATSAMAGKAS
    EURICO MACHADO

    Edited by
    JAY FOREMAN

    Visual effects and stabilisation
    KYLE PAUL

    Additional graphics
    LAURA NOBLE
    JON BALL
    TRISTAN GRIFFEN

    Props/Costumes
    JADE NAGI

    60s car advert voiceover
    JOHN HENRY FALLE

    60s car advert girl
    SAMANTHA SHERRATT

    Game show host
    MANDY DASSA

    Vox pops
    AILSA MAINWARING
    ROB KEMP
    KAI HAMMOND
    JAMIE KOOIJ

    Town planners
    GEOFF MARSHALL
    TIM BYRNE
    ASHLEY LYDIATE
    FRANZ SITTAMPALAM
    URS ROBBE

    Car humper
    KAT BARRETT

    Boris bike user
    TOM CLARKE

    Mad cyclist, Nervous cyclist, Leslie Hore-Belisha, Hoover groom
    PAUL KENDLER

    Facilities provided by
    SHIFT 4

    Mini Cooper provided by
    smallcarBIGCITY http://www.smallcarbigcity.com

    36 Comments

    1. Me? Cycle in London? No! I'll die.

      You've got to be stark raving mad to cycle in London.

      I would cycle, but there are too many roads.

      I tried cycling once, but there was a bus on the other side of the road. Aargh!

      What's wrong with these people? Cycling is good exercise, it's free, it's fun

      You can change your route as you please, you can park anywhere, it's usually faster than the bus,

      sometimes faster than the Tube, and yet for some reason, cyclists in London are still

      a rare and strange breed.

    2. Can you show a small Maoist red book on this film,just to even things up!!? Just saying .oh…. Most cyclists are middle class people with big motors .

    3. I'm a Canadian staying in London right now (near Russell Square), and it's disappointing to compare this area to places like Amsterdam. All the cycling "infrastructure" I've seen here is basically either paint where you share the same road space as vehicles, or no paint at all. A kid definitely couldn't cycle there safely, at least with access to any real businesses or anything. And that, to me, means the infrastructure just isn't safe enough to bother with. It's definitely nice to see, despite this, there are much higher volumes of people on bicycles compared to my home province, and it's encouraging, but yeah, you gotta be able to put up with a fairly pronounced level of risk (driver inattentiveness, etc).

    4. There aren't many cities in Europe that are amenable for cycling. Having lived in Shanghai they had cycling routes everywhere, with tons of people driving on these "silent" deadly scooters and bikes, responsible for a lot of accidents. I've heard that cycling is highly popular in Copenhagen, Amsterdam, but other than that…
      I think it's much safer in Europe and on a much smaller scale, considering that Shanghai is a relatively new city in terms of it's recent growth and development in the late 1990s and 2000s, with 23 million people and thrice the size of New York, they have the privelege of building huge, extra wide roads, integrated with cycling routes, for motorists and cyclists alike. London amd New York's infrastructure being really old, and most of the streets being rather narrow, it'd be hard to accomodate the former and the latter together, the possibilities being undisputedly meagre.

    5. Boris bikes remind me of the “Obama phone.” The actual program was set up under Bush, but implemented under Obama. Cell phones were cheaper to provision than land lines, so it saved money compared to existing Universal Lifeline (low income phone service) installations. Republicans praised it under Bush, then derided it as opulent spending when Bush’s plan actually started under Obama.

    6. Here's something I don't understand about jay foreman…..why isn't he ABSOLUTELY EVERYWHERE???? so fucking funny, so interesting, so likeable. He should be on everything.

    7. Bikes have to be separated from cars, but pedestrians also need to be separated from bikes. Cyclists are so dangerous around pedestrians.

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