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I've reported on a few major sports events using a push bike as my main form of transport; the , the world athletics championships in Helsinki (despite the rain) and the World Cup finals in Germany, where I regularly cycled to the main stadium in Berlin.

It was a fantastic way of getting to know the cities, of feeling the atmosphere around the venues and simply of having the freedom to leave a stadium or a team hotel when I wanted to, rather than waiting for a taxi or a bus. And I always beat most of my colleagues back to the hotel bar at the end of a long day!

So I don't think it is such a strange idea for London 2012 to suggest that up to 4,500 spectators could use bikes to go to the Olympics every day.

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Before his own blog was launched, ´óÏó´«Ã½ London's Olympics Correspondent Adrian Warner contributed to the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Olympics blog. Here are some of his entries over the last six months:

London confidential
I've been determined to investigate 2012's efforts to stop people talking about the details of the Olympic project since I was told last year that new staff at London 2012 were required to sign confidentiality agreements.

London 2012 cuts its cloth
January 16 is the halfway point between London winning the bid in July 2005 and the opening ceremony - three-and-a-half years gone and three-and-a-half to go.

Should sport always sell to the highest bidder?
Conversations in Lausanne, where the International Olympic Committee is based, soon got around to the impact of the global financial crisis on sport and the government and London 2012 faced criticism.

Jowell's comments come as no surprise
I was surprised when Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell suggested this week that London might not have bid for the Games, had people known that a recession was on the way, though she now says her comments were misconstrued.

To compete, not commute
Olympic experts regularly tell me that London's traffic problems are the biggest challenge to organisers of the 2012 Games and it's because of them that London 2012's plans to move badminton to Wembley's indoor Arena in order to save money are likely to face some opposition from the international governing body of the sport.

Economy threatens London's green ambitions
People in the construction business are telling me that London 2012's hopes of being the "Greenest Games ever" are going to come under intense pressure in the next year because of the economic crisis.

Europe threatens to spoil London party
We've got to wake up to the fact that our sports facilities are still behind the rest of Europe at virtually every level.

Which sports are on the move for London 2012?
The £9.3 billion budget to build the 2012 Games facilities is under intense pressure because of the credit crunch and an Olympic board meeting concentrated on how money can be saved.

Sponsors sweet on London
Finding Olympic sponsors has become tougher in today's economic climate but London 2012 may get crucial help in the next few months from the International Olympic Committee.

Use this 2012 enthusiasm
With the greatest respect to Britain's successful Olympians and Paralympians, and to the rest of the country, my belief is that it is among the people of Newham where we will find out if the 2012 Olympics have been worth it or not.

Badminton could move to Wembley for 2012
´óÏó´«Ã½ London has learned that London 2012 officials have been looking for some time at scrapping their original plans to build a temporary arena near to the 02 to stage badminton and rhythmic gymnastics.

Credit crisis could mean flat-pack Olympics
It was only a matter of time before we started to see real evidence of the credit crisis hitting the Olympics. Now we've got it.