Tag Archives: Cycling

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 [...]