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Biking

57 images Created 7 Mar 2013

A collection of incidental bikes, bicycles, cycles and cyclists, by Richard Baker.

On the urban road and the pavement, in the wilderness and in the gym.

Being ridden, locked up and on their sides.

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  • The circus animal trainer leads two of his elephant friends one morning after a Gerry Cottle show the night before. Riding a bicycle across a field in London, he leads one beast, its trunk holding his white stick while another follows behind. Peters is topless, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and bright blue trousers. Marcel Peters is a circus animal trainer who has worked in the ring for many years, starting with Billy Smart's Circus and working with Polar bears, tigers, lions and elephants. Gerry Cottle sold his elephants and Peters moved with them to the Spanish Circus Mundial. His real name is Marcel Peter Hodge.
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  • Cyclist precariously pedals with his running pet dog on lead in London street.
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  • A mangled bicycle leans against a Metropolitan police van after a seemingly serious accident in the Strand.
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  • A young boy sits on the grass after falling from his tricycle on a summer's day in the family garden in the early nineteen sixties.
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  • A cyclist pedals past a Mercedes as it burns at the side of the road at Hyde Park Corner in central London.
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  • A Transport for London (TFL) poster at a Westminster bus stop shows an oversized cyclist, promoting cycling as alternative mode of transport in London. Reflected in a glass panel is a lady cyclist many times more her actual size than the car next to her in the road and pedestrians waling on pavements. The trick of scale is seen in this TFL campaign for more, safer cycling in the capital which has traditionally been a city for the driver, rathern than for those eager to beat the jams on two wheels.
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  • Drivers and cyclists share two lanes of a road junction in freezing mid-winter temperatures. Commuters are stopped at lights near Denmark Hill during a prolonged cold spell of bad weather when snow fell continuously on the capital days before in the borough of Lambeth.
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  • Young men dash in front of approaching cyclist at a crossing in central London near miniature workman warning.
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  • Peckham locals and a Visa advertising billboard featuring the arm of Olympic athlete Usain Bolt in south London.
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  • Pedestrian and cyclist on rental Boris Bike in a Soho side-street, pattened with purple.
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  • Visitors to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show make their way home through local streets after the last day's plant sell-off.
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  • Two red buses and two bicycles locked to posts on opposite sides of the road outside the Bank of England in the City of London.
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  • Pedestrians cross a road in Southwark with yellow seating handles from the top deck of a London double-decker bus.
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  • As a man cycles downhill with a child on his shoulders, a local lady takes her morning walk with her dogs along Kostelni street in Holesovice district, Prague 7, on 20th March, 2018, in Prague, the Czech Republic.
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  • A father with a daughter in tow cycles past the IOC's Olympic logo brand of rings on a banner at Horse Guards in Whitehall during the London 2012 Olympics. Wrought iron railings are seen behind the banner at the sports venue hosting the volleyball in the centre of Westminster where governmental offices are located.
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  • Londoners experience the unexpected intensity of localised solar rays, reflected off the concave plate glass windows of one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie-talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car and left soft street fittings smouldering in Eastcheap Street, City of London, the capital's financial district. One thermometer placed in the street reached 144F (62 celsius) and others off the scale and city workers poured out of their offices at lunchtime to witness the strange phenomena of intense, Biblical light and blistering heat.
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  • Cyclists pass a regeneration project hoarding at Elephant Park, at Elephant & Castle, London borough of Southwark. Southwark Council’s development partner, Lendlease is regenerating over 28 acres across three sites at the heart of Elephant & Castle, in what is the latest major regeneration opportunity in zone 1 London. The vision for the £1.5 billion regeneration is to build on the area’s strengths and vibrant character in order to re-establish Elephant & Castle as one of London’s most flourishing urban quarters. The Elephant & Castle regeneration is of a scale rarely seen in central London and includes almost 3,000 new homes, plus office, retail, community, leisure and restaurant space.
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  • On a street in Macau (also Macao) in the Chinese Special Economic Region (SER), we see the tall stack of cardboard on the back of a bicycle. Its partly-obscured rider and owner has one foot placed on the bike's pedal while his right arm has firm hold of the pile of materials to prevent it from toppling over. In the background we see the signs of many local businesses, their Chinese characters seen clearly on the sides of buildings as pedestrians walk on the pavements. Administered by Portugal until 1999, Macau was the oldest European colony in China, dating back to the 16th century. The administrative power over Macau was transferred to the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1999, 2 years after Hong Kong's own handover. Macau's name is derived from A-Ma-Gau or Place of A-Ma
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  • Commuters on bicycle and motorbike with a taxi behind wait for traffic lights to change at the entrance of Bank tube station.
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  • A man wearing striped trousers rides through a shaft of early spring light in a side street in the capital's financial district. This is Lombard Street, originally a piece of land granted by King Edward I to goldsmiths from the part of northern Italy known as Lombardy (larger than the modern region of Lombardy). It is a narrow and usually dark sidestreet near the Bank of England in the heart of what is called the Square Mile - the inner-part and oldest quarter of London occupied first by the Romans 2,000 years ago. Nowadays the City of London is home to banks and financial institutions but also with a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000.
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  • A cyclist pedals through reflected light from opposing skyscrapers in Waterloo, SE1, south London.
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  • Cyclists pedal past an office foyer entrance featuring dots and circles (and shadows) on exterior windows in the City of London.
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  • People and cyclist pass-by on the pedestrian pavement in Trafalgar Square in central London.
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  • A cyclist pedals through green reflected light shining from a City of London office building.
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  • Two Boris bike cyclists and discarded Union Jack covered box left on the corner of construction hoarding plyboard in Trafalgar Square, London.
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