Tag Archives: Cycling

Cycle/cycling insurance review

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 [...]

Shoppers aren’t all motorists

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 [...]

Warm hands for cycling?

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

Cold cyclists read this

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

Brrrrrrrr. It’s brassy on a bike.

How do you keep your fingers and toes toasty in this weather? Not by cycling, that’s for sure. So far no-one seems to have been out clearing or gritting any but the main roads round our way (Congleton), so we’ve left the bikes in the garage (need a spade to clear the doors anyway) and [...]