The speed limit on many A-roads will be reduced to 50mph under plans aimed at cutting the number of road deaths by a third. Drivers also face limits of 20mph in residential zones. These could be enforced by average speed cameras. Average speed cameras seem more effective than ordinary speed cameras. You notice this when […]

A statistics that won’t surprise many. The US and UK both have pitiful cycle rates compared to other European countries such as Holland, Denmark and Germany. A slight surprise Spain has such a low rate of cycling. An almost inverse proportion. The US with the lowest rate of cycling has by far the worst cycling […]

This video gives an example of how common cycling is in Holland. Apparantely, it was -2 degrees when this video was taken. In the winter months cycle rates can fall to as low as 95% of all children arriving by bike. When you look at the infrastructure of cycling in Holland it is easy to […]

This year I seem to have noticed alot more litter by the side of roads. Maybe I have just become more observant of it. But, some roads I use for training are strewn with litter and in a way it spoils the ride. The problem is that litter is cumulative. Plastic and tin cans don’t […]