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Cycling
 * style="color:#000;"|[[Image:Brompton-1.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Brompton]]]]Cycling is a means of transport, a form of recreation and a  sport.  It's the most efficient form of transport on the planet.  Some people have, through creative accounting, tried to show that cycling is as "polluting" as a small, economical family car, but this is essentially sophistry as it includes all the CO2 emitted by the cyclist but ignores the fact that most people need to breathe anyway, that the growing and consumption of food is more or less carbon neutral (give or take the cost of transport, which also applies to oil of course), and that the distance travelled per unit effort expended is greater than for any other mode of transport. More...
 * style="color:#000;"|[[Image:Brompton-1.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Brompton]]]]Cycling is a means of transport, a form of recreation and a  sport.  It's the most efficient form of transport on the planet.  Some people have, through creative accounting, tried to show that cycling is as "polluting" as a small, economical family car, but this is essentially sophistry as it includes all the CO2 emitted by the cyclist but ignores the fact that most people need to breathe anyway, that the growing and consumption of food is more or less carbon neutral (give or take the cost of transport, which also applies to oil of course), and that the distance travelled per unit effort expended is greater than for any other mode of transport. More...

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 * cycle helmets
 * cycle safety
 * cycle advocacy
 * Great cycle safety video from TFL

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 * The fastest cyclist on the planet is Sam Whittingham, with a new record of 82.3mph.
 * The record for Land's End to John O'Groats by bike is 41 hours
 * Velovision is a quirky bike magazine, nothing ordinary in there!
 * Velovision is a quirky bike magazine, nothing ordinary in there!

I like...

 * Yehuda Moon, a cycling-themed webcomic.
 * Fan of ? On ?  Become a Fan of Thomas Allen on Facebook!
 * This YouTube video shows why people love the Deltic - 55019 storming past York on full throttle, it sounds like an aircraft or some exotic Italian sports car, rather than a diesel locomotive.
 * The Minard map, an amazing representation of the folly of Napoleon's Russian campaign.
 * IAM fact sheet on sharing the road with cyclists, great stuff.

Music resources:
 * ChoralWiki, the original and best source of public domain choral music.
 * Mutopia has a wider brief than ChoralWiki.
 * IMSLP (International Music Score Library Project), does as the name suggests.
 * GOpera, Margo Briessinck's personal site has good material on lieder and in particular.


 * I am incredibly fortunate to have been accompanied when singing by the excellent Nigel Foster . In 2007 he started the London Song Festival with a strong programme of concerts including  (winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Award),  and others, plus masterclasses from .  See http://www.londonsongfestival.org for more details.
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