After racing season, I don’t feel like racing up hills for a while, but, for this time of the season, I’m feeling quite fit and sometimes I get a burst of adrenalin to cycle quickly around town. I was cycling to work the other day, when I kept overtaking another cyclist. He was paying no […]

I don’t know why, but it seems an increasingly common experience for motorists to turn right into a road just as I am cycling along. I presume they feel they can turn right and still not hit you because a bike should be one foot from left hand curb. But, it feels quite threatening when […]

‘Against stupidity the Gods themselves strive in vain.” – Ancient Greek Saying A while back, I was watching a TV programme about the Road traffic police in the south of England. It was somewhat macabrely fascinating, if not particularly enjoyable. It seemed the police came across everything – Motorcyclists who risked everything for a few […]

Speed Cameras have their drawbacks. One notable problem is that drivers will be speeding along, see a speed camera, and at last moment slam on brakes to about 25mph. It can be pretty dangerous when you’re doing a time trail at 30mph. But, overall speed cameras, in the correct place, can help reduce speed and […]

Urban Bike Survival Guide No.1 – Waking up the driver I was freewheeling down a hill in Oxford – perhaps 18mph. The road is quite narrow with parked cars on either side. A van was coming up the other way. Relatively quick for the road size – but probably close to legal limit of 20mph.

The joy of cycling to work. This photo says it all. Whilst in York, a cycling city, I saw an advert encouraging people to cycle to work. – ‘It only takes 15 minutes to cycle to work – give it a try.’ So inspired by York’s cycling campaign here are 10 good reasons to commute […]

Taking a bike on a train is more difficult these days, with some commuter services not allowing full sized bikes. You will need to check with local operators to see whether you can take a bike on your service. National Rail says it does try to encourage bikes to be taken by train, but, there […]

(tentatively getting into position for right hand lane.) Taking photos of cyclists at Magdalen Bridge, I was observing how people were cycling. Also many cyclists need to move across into the right hand lane in order to be able to turn right. It is potentially tricky because you can have buses and vans going straight […]

- Sorry that’s a £100 fine. (BTW: the young cyclist had been looking in field and after a few seconds went back on road. There were no pedestrians in the area, and he was cycling at 5mph) I note that Westminster council is proposing to raise fines on cyclists to £100 for cycling infringements. My […]