I cycled to work yesterday morning, and as ever I felt I was far safer and better off than had I been driving. Overnight Plymouth had a lot of snow, but towards 05h00 we also had some drizzle, turning all the snow to slush and ice. For some obscure reason Plymouth City Council apparently did ... Read more

Not quite sure about the claim of this being the first bike trick EVER, but still well worth watching.

Having just completed a rather hopeful & optimistic post, my home town of Plymouth still has a LONG way to go: This picture is of what the planners/road safety implementers have gone and done on Charles Cross roundabout. As the next pic (of the same spot) shows, there is a bus lane, which of course ... Read more

During these freezing cold winter days, a breath of fresh air has started to blow. A breath of fresh air that holds the potential of bringing something remarkable to the UK. We have suffered for so long at the hands of the government, the DfT, and even organisations who are supposed to be on our ... Read more

Commuting to work this morning, I cycled my usual route, which took me up Tothill road and Greenbank road. It was on Greenbank rd that I saw him – a little bit ahead, joining the road from a little side street that doesn’t really go anywhere.He was on a slicked-up fully rigid mountain bike, while ... Read more

Drake’s Trail is part of NCN 27, and the Devon Coast-To-Coast trail, and links Yelverton with Tavistock. Overall it is a gorgeous cycle path, even though much of the surface isn’t tarred, and it forms a natural extension to the Plym Valley cycle path that links Plymouth with Yelverton. As such, it means there is an ... Read more

I’ve read all sorts of opinions about cycling ranging from “Cyclists are vehicles and we should cycle on the road as equals” to “No – we should have separate infrastructure!” and almost everything in between. I’ll start by admitting that I don’t have the answers to solving this dilemma, but I’ve stumbled across a few ... Read more

I was a teenager in the 80’s. Aside from producing REALLY cool music and REALLY naff hairstyles, the 80’s also invented the Yuppie, and the world has never been the same since! One phrase probably describes the 80’s better than any other: Greed is good. And therein lies the problem – all of a sudden ... Read more

I obtained a set of panniers from Lidl some time ago, and I’ve been using it virtually daily. Commuting to work means I carry a change of clothes, my lunch, bike lock, battery for my bike’s headlight, toolkit and whatever else I may need, all in the panniers. The panniers are made by Crivit, and ... Read more

Cycling up Tothill avenue the other day I was pleasantly surprised by something. For those not from Plymouth, starting off from Cattedown roundabout it is quite flat, but then there is a longish hill in the form of Tothill avenue, continuing onto Greenbank avenue. The road isn’t very wide at all, certainly not wide enough for ... Read more

I was cycling down Mutley Plain last Thursday, at around 17h30, merrily minding my own business while pacing the speed of the slowish traffic.Approaching the junction where traffic can turn off to Ford Park road, I was in the left lane. The right lane was choked with traffic wanting to turn. Oh, and one VERY ... Read more

Somebody came up with a VERY good campaign – one of those great ideas that everybody else failed to think of, but afterwards felt that anybody could have thought of it. Great ideas normally make people feel like that. Anyway, if you only do ONE positive thing for cycling, for the environment, for yourself this ... Read more

I hate colds! When you have a cold, you’re not proper unwell. Instead, you usually end up with a stuffy, runny nose, a few sneezes and some coughing, but generally speaking you’re only unwell enough to be annoyed by it, yet not enough to even be able to feel sorry for yourself. This past week ... Read more

I’ve posted before about a bike light I had made, following an idea I saw on Instructables.com. In short, it is using an old Nokia phone to power a 50-odd LED cheap lamp. It worked quite well, and gave around 4 hours of light on a full charge. The trouble was that despite having 50-odd cheap LED’s, ... Read more

I’ll be upfront with you – I have almost no faith in the government. And no, this is well above that stupid my-daddy-is-bigger-than-your-daddy party-political system we have in the UK.I guess what I should say is I have almost no faith in the previous, current or future government of the UK, even though that sounds ... Read more