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This morning, I was trying to explain to my six year old why I had put lights on her bike, even though it was fully light, if a bit murky.  ...

Sometimes I just don't understand people.  This morning, I was taking my wee boy to nursery on his balancebike, and we came past this bu...

...is that we all behave as if we're 3 years old.   And no wonder. The only time that we learn road safety is at pre-school or nursery...

....when it goes to Cycling Scotland... The Minister of Transport in Scotland has responded to a Parliamentary question and several Freedo...

Yesterday, I was talking to a journalist and I foolishly said something like 'what we really need to think about it is supporting pedest...

" W atch out for pedestrians crossing a roa d into which you are turning. If they have started to cross they have priority, so give wa...

A letter to my MSPs I don't know whether you saw the recent Open Letter to Alex Salmond, of  which I was one signatory.  It was publis...

I blame Iain Docherty .   At this year's Spokes meeting, he called himself a militant pedestrian. It annoyed me then.  Especially as he ...

Don't get me wrong, I'm keen on any schemes that improve the infrastructure for cyclists.  But I don't want this to be at the ex...

Yesterday I got an email from an old friend saying "what are you going to do for your birthday? Go on a bike ride?".  At first I...

What does the nicewaycode do that the highway code doesn't already do?  As far as I can tell, it merely adds a 'light-hearted tone...

I don't have any kittens, so here's a scenery picture instead. I went off and communed with nature for a few days before writi...

Cycling Scotland's flagship programme for cycle safety is called 'cyclespace' and involves pictures of kids on bikes asking ...