Biketour 2010 is actually happening right now!!!!!! by Yo

Biketour 2010 started one week ago and altough you are most likely not there when reading this, you might be conscious of this and willing to get an update… Here it comes. You are welcome to react with thoughts/ideas/suggestions! We were and are about 12-14 participants up to now, if i counted well… The numbers change constantly, as sometimes some people decide to stay somewhere a bit longer and join us again later. This first week we took part in the critical mass of London and cycled from Darlington, via Botton to York. In York we took part in the…

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Biketour update for 2010-07-01

Testing out our portable rocket stove at the Brotherhood Church near Pontfract. Dinner on the way! http://yfrog.com/mtjf7sj # Back on the road today and heading past Drax coal fired power station the biggest CO2 source and polluter in the UK http://yfrog.com/j9xazuj #

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Biketour update for 2010-06-30

Halfway through our Seeds of Change workshop on consensus and facilitation, trying to get to the underlying cause of problems we have had # Still in York around the Towards Carfree Cities Conference. Today we have a full day workshop on consensus led by Seeds of Change's Rebecca #

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Biketour update for 2010-06-28

Now we are in York, getting ready to go to the Towards Carfree Cities Conference tomorrow, and thinking about going on a Carfree pubcrawl. # After 2 days of pushing bikes up hills in North Yorkshire we have decided that we should call this the first Ecotopia Walktour # On Saturday night we watched Beauty and the Bike with Darlington Cycle Campaign http://www.bikebeauty.org # Just left Botton Village where we stayed last night and came up a 33% gradient!!! http://yfrog.com/0mr2hj #

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Biketour update for 2010-06-26

Our hosts on the first night at the Clow Beck Centre http://yfrog.com/htr4dj # Bt 2010 leaves Darlington by going off road! http://yfrog.com/49u9qnj # Operation 'Dick Turpin' is now in action. Most of us are already in Darlington with the local Cycle Campaign and FOE. Last 5 on the way! #

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