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I've been enjoying reading about one Mum's attempt to go car-free for a week in North London .  She's chronicled her struggle ag...

Making space for cycling has hit the main stream - big rides , campaigns , new guidance.  It's all really good stuff, but I can't he...

A few years ago - maybe even just months ago - I didn't even know what a chicane was.   I've paid so little attention to them, that ...

A couple of weeks ago I posted a video of 5 minutes cycling with my daughter .  It got quite a lot of views and comments. Even the nicest co...

I may have let the cat out of the bag in a recent post.  I said ' Edinburgh's a pretty decent place to cycle'.  And I actually...

Edinburgh's a strange city in many ways. It's a city with a port, not a port city.  This is in part a function of history - Leith  o...

Edinburgh's a pretty decent place to cycle.  We like to say that they have all the right policies, but fall down on implementation.  But...

(inspired by a comment on my last post....) Earlier in the week, it being the Easter Holidays, a plan was concocted that required getting ...

First bike. I'm the worst possible person to speak about 'getting people cycling' and especially 'getting women cycling...

We've been running a bit late this week, owing to the time change. Which meant that my 7yo has been riding her bike to school, and arri...

I try to avoid kneejerk council bashing. But this is a three-strikes-and-you're-out kind of moment. In the 1990s, a set of guidelines ...