Nicholas Beale – cycle BOOM http://www.cycleboom.org Design for lifelong health and wellbeing Mon, 13 Feb 2017 10:41:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.2 “I thought of that while riding my bicycle” http://www.cycleboom.org/thought-riding-bicycle/ http://www.cycleboom.org/thought-riding-bicycle/#respond Fri, 02 Sep 2016 09:56:35 +0000 http://www.cycleboom.org/?p=1967 In this month’s blog, Louise-Ann Leyland, post-doctoral researcher on the cycle BOOM project writes about her recent travels to Brisbane, Australia, to present the findings from the cycle BOOM Wellbeing and Cognition Trials at the prestigious International Conference on Traffic and Transport Psychology (ICTTP). The Conference was a global forum at which all those involved... [Read More]

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]]> http://www.cycleboom.org/thought-riding-bicycle/feed/ 0 Tales from Taipei: exploring the evolution of cycling http://www.cycleboom.org/tales-from-taipei-exploring-the-evolution-of-cycling/ http://www.cycleboom.org/tales-from-taipei-exploring-the-evolution-of-cycling/#respond Wed, 30 Mar 2016 09:32:18 +0000 http://www.cycleboom.org/?p=1740 This month Justin Spinney reflects on his visit to the Velo-City Global 2016 Conference, Taipei. Recently I enlarged my carbon footprint further (but all that cycling makes up for it, right?) by attending Velo-City Global in Taipei. As you’d expect from a cycling conference, there were many success stories from around the world reporting ‘best practice’... [Read More]

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]]> http://www.cycleboom.org/tales-from-taipei-exploring-the-evolution-of-cycling/feed/ 0 Moving Emotions: Towards Harmonious and Happy Cycling Cities http://www.cycleboom.org/moving-emotions-towards-harmonious-and-happy-cycling-cities/ http://www.cycleboom.org/moving-emotions-towards-harmonious-and-happy-cycling-cities/#respond Mon, 08 Feb 2016 11:05:41 +0000 http://www.cycleboom.org/?p=1673 “The January Blog is a little later than planned because the team has been fully occupied with data analysis – including data visualisation as Carl Mann (University of Cardiff) explains here.” Throughout 2015, the cycle BOOM project collected a second wave of data from the local residents of Cardiff and Reading. We are interested in... [Read More]

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]]> http://www.cycleboom.org/moving-emotions-towards-harmonious-and-happy-cycling-cities/feed/ 0 Wrapping up a data packed 2015! http://www.cycleboom.org/a-data-packed-2015/ http://www.cycleboom.org/a-data-packed-2015/#respond Tue, 22 Dec 2015 12:52:24 +0000 http://www.cycleboom.org/?p=1655 It’s been a busy year for the cycle BOOM team. In 2015, we completed almost all of our fieldwork with just a few remaining participants to recruit for our cycling and wellbeing trials. In the early part of 2016, we will focus on making sense of the information and data that has been accumulated over the... [Read More]

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]]> http://www.cycleboom.org/a-data-packed-2015/feed/ 0 cycle BOOM: moving to the next phase http://www.cycleboom.org/cycle-boom-moving-to-the-next-phase/ http://www.cycleboom.org/cycle-boom-moving-to-the-next-phase/#respond Wed, 26 Aug 2015 09:47:44 +0000 http://www.cycleboom.org/?p=1578 Tim Jones provides an update on progress and looks ahead to the next phase of the cycle BOOM project. It’s been a busy summer for cycle BOOM. The researchers have been busy recruiting and conducting research with remaining participants at our four sites (Oxford, Bristol, Cardiff and Reading). Meanwhile, back at HQ, Nick Beale, our... [Read More]

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]]> http://www.cycleboom.org/cycle-boom-moving-to-the-next-phase/feed/ 0 “Best thing since they invented the jet engine!” http://www.cycleboom.org/best-thing-since-they-invented-the-jet-engine/ http://www.cycleboom.org/best-thing-since-they-invented-the-jet-engine/#respond Wed, 29 Jul 2015 13:42:17 +0000 http://www.cycleboom.org/?p=1507 This quote came from one of our cycle BOOM participants after he had been riding the Raleigh ‘Motus’ e-bike for a couple of weeks, as part of his 8-week ‘wellbeing and cognition’ cycle trial.  Read on to find our what others on our e-bike trial have been saying. First, a little background on the wellbeing trials;... [Read More]

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]]> http://www.cycleboom.org/best-thing-since-they-invented-the-jet-engine/feed/ 0 The potential for the return of an endangered species – the older cyclist http://www.cycleboom.org/the-potential-for-the-return-of-an-endangered-species-the-older-cyclist/ http://www.cycleboom.org/the-potential-for-the-return-of-an-endangered-species-the-older-cyclist/#comments Fri, 27 Feb 2015 10:04:20 +0000 http://www.cycleboom.org/?p=1285 This month’s blog is written by cycle BOOM Co-Investigator, Kiron Chatterjee, and provides a valuable insight into the current state of older cycling in the UK. When we have told some people about our research they have not been able to hide the view that we are wasting our time. They claim older people in the... [Read More]

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]]> http://www.cycleboom.org/the-potential-for-the-return-of-an-endangered-species-the-older-cyclist/feed/ 3 Raleigh to the cause… http://www.cycleboom.org/raleigh-cause/ http://www.cycleboom.org/raleigh-cause/#respond Tue, 17 Dec 2013 14:59:34 +0000 http://www.cycleboom.org/?p=743 With the cycle BOOM project now in full swing, we are busy planning the months ahead including the electric bike (e-Bike) trials this summer. These will be examining the impacts of this assistive technology on independent mobility, mental performance and wellbeing in comparison to regular cycling. For this we need some quality bikes and our... [Read More]

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