Friends in Pisa   Do you have a relative  / friend who often talks about cycling but never gets round to it?  Do you have a partner who just doesn’t share your passion for driving 300 miles round-trip for a nine mile hill climb?  How can you inspire them to get off the couch and […]

Being a cyclist teaches you one thing, it’s no fun being lumped together with some snotty nosed teenager who happens to cycle on the pavement too fast. People are often lazy and label all cyclists as some homogenous entity. If one person on a bike does something wrong, the theory goes we are all like […]

Fortunately, when the temperature rises, cycling is one of the better activities to be doing. When it is 30 degrees I find it more uncomfortable walking around a city centre than I would out on my bike. The faster you cycle the more wind resistance you create to give a natural cooling mechanism. Nevertheless, when […]

I’m a great believer in cycling. Quite often I cycle through Oxford and think how great it would be to have 50% more cyclists, 50% less buses and 50% less cars. Many who get into cycling say how much they enjoy it. My former landlord used to drive the 2 miles to work for 20 […]

If you’ve had a nice Christmas holidays and don’t want it spoiling, I would avoid reading this article by Matthew Paris on why cyclists are deserving of a bit of decapitation article here. – note link is nofollow – which means the Times don’t get any benefit from the link