This is no ordinary cycling festival. Intelligence2 are a global forum for live debate who are committed to creating knowledge through contest. They're bringing together the most articulate amateurs and professionals from the world of cycling to celebrate the endeavour and endurance, the risk and reward of cycling's extraordinary partnership between man and machine.
At Cycle Lifestyle we were delighted to encounter an event which 'fuses' thinking with cycling. I've always felt there to be an important relationship between the two activities. Cycling boosts your brain and makes you think - and thinking boosts your intelligence and makes you more likely to appreciate, and partake in, all the benefits cycling. Boris Johnson captured this relationship well when he said 'a cyclised city is a civilised city'.
We'll be attending the Cycling Festival and handing out free copies of Cycle Lifestyle as well as posters for our London Cycle Map Campaign. None other than mapping experts Ordnance Survey have declared Simon Parker's imaginative proposal to be one that would 'improve transport in Britain' - it's another fine example of where thinking meets cycling and great results follow!
Also taking part in the Cycling Festival will be: Bella Bathurst, Geoff Dyer, Patrick Field, Graeme Obree and Will Self. It promises to be a unique and fascinating event, so I hope to see you there.
