What’s not to like about this bike rack – much more attractive than the usual toast racks so they’d look good in a garden as well as outside the shops. They’re called Plant Locks and are available in red or green from Front Yard Company.
Sustrans has just announced that, last week, leading up to Team Green Britain Bike Week, over half the youngsters (127) at Belvidere Primary School, Shrewsbury, cycled to school every day. The school’s head teacher also made his 30 mile commute on two wheels. Parent governor Debbie Clee cycled in with her two children and [...]
Sale-Stretford pedestrians and cyclists have a newly surfaced route thanks to lottery money. The Bridgewater Way scheme has been opened after a week of events along the canal. This new route provides a practical and accessible path for commuting and for leisure, highlighting the use of the historic canal towpath as a sustainable travel [...]
What’s not to like about this street art? Take a look at Carlton Reid’s May blog entry.
We’ve ploughed through policies and squinted at small print to compare cycle and cycling cover for ourselves, so we thought we’d share the information in an insurance review. There’s info for you to compare specialist cycle and cyclist policies for everyday, holiday, commuter, leisure, triathlon and other competitive riding, for theft, damage, personal accident [...]
If you want to see what the countryside is like on or near the Cheshire Cycleway, have a look at the following video. The Cheshire Cycleway (regional cycle route 70) is a signed circuit, using mostly back roads to travel 175 miles through the best countryside in Cheshire. See for yourself from the video.
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There are so many different places to cash in your old mobile that we’ve added a quick comparison page.
There’s a lot of fuss in Congleton about car park charges being introduced that will ‘kill the town centre’, but a study of some local shopping areas in Bristol showed that traders overestimated how many shoppers arrived by car. They thought 41%, but in fact it was only 22% - the rest walked, cycled or [...]
Just come across a possible solution – actually one for keeping hands dry but that’s half the battle. Washing up gloves.
I’d forgotten that my 3-layer approach to fending of frostbite in
Further to my research into warm toes etc, I found a couple of useful sites yesterday. One is the Guardian’s Bike Blog for 5th and 6th Jan, where a lot of people have contributed ideas. The other is about
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