Where do you get the most inspiration for cycling, training and racing? These are seven sources of inspiration, there are probably a few more but this is what comes to mind at the moment. Riding a bike. I’m not being facetious, but, the best way to get into the mode of cycling is to actually […]

In an interesting move, Ken Livingstone announced plans to fund 6,000 bikes which will be placed in different parts of London by tube stations. People will then be able to hire the bikes and cycle around London. For the first hour the cost will be free, after the first half hour it will cost £1 […]

THE horrified parents of an eight-year-old girl torn from her bicycle after riding into wire deliberately strung between two posts want the culprits thrown in jail. Little Shayla cheated death, suffering cuts and bruises to her throat and face, when she was slung by the neck in a park near her Hastings home about 9pm […]

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live- Mark Twain Cycling is an excellent way to get fit. If you can find some good roads to cycle on, it can be a very enjoyable way to lose a bit of weight and improve your fitness. These are some of the advantages to […]

Recently I posted about the unsavoury article by Matthew Parris on the decapitation of cyclists. Often it seems cycling makes the newspapers for the wrong reasons. With this in mind, it is pleasing to come across the odd article which paints some of the positive benefits of cycling. This South African newspaper reports how cycling […]

I started reading The Cyclists compendium in a book shop and I noted down some of the quotes On a bicycle you consume a fiftieth of the oxygen consumed by a motor vehicle, and expel no pollutants “Nothing compares with the simple pleasure of a bike ride” John F Kennedy “Just as the ideal of […]

Those who have been following the Matthew Parris saga, may be interested to know he published a brief apology, at the bottom of his Time newspaper today. Article I offended many with my Christmas attack on cyclists. It was meant humorously but so many cyclists have taken it seriously that I plainly misjudged. I am […]