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There are lots of jokes about the tensions, splits and divides in bike groups, but one of the joys of being involved with Pedal on Parliamen...

ht tp://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/10991019106/ In the past few days, more shared use signs have appeared around the city...

I wrote this yesterday for the Scotsman, to accompany this article .  Not sure if it's gone in or not.  It's a slightly more critic...

I suppose it was inevitable, that in a week when Scotland's dire record of pedestrian safety  was splashed across the media, when I can...

I've written before about the last 10 yards of the school run being the part that puts me (and others) off letting my kids cycle to sch...

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...