Chairman’s Letter, Autumn 2024
Dear RCC members A couple of years ago I bought an e-bike conversion kit which I installed on my town bike, but I never really got used to it and […]
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Kidical Mass Autumn 2024 Report
Reading Uni-Cycling Around In May Kidical Mass ran a ride at the University of Reading’s community festival. Over 50 people joined us for a ride through the university site. The […]
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Matt Touw’s Experience and Ideas
Matt Touw runs a bike repair business called MT-Cycle Repairs out of a workshop just off the Wokingham Road in East Reading. He is well known among delivery riders as […]
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A Man Called Claud
While I was talking to Matt Touw, a man came in to have some work done on his bike. He was obviously well-known to Matt and although he declined to […]
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Michael’s View
For this issue of Cycle Reading where we are looking at the burgeoning food courier business, we asked an experienced delivery rider for their thoughts. Michael has been a delivery […]
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Electric Bikes and the Law
This article explains the current state of the law regarding electric bikes (also known as e-bikes) in the UK. Note that this represents the personal view of the author, not […]
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Contacting Just Eat and Deliveroo
In July there was an article in road.cc about the problems delivery cyclists were having in Canterbury. Just Eat and Deliveroo were both quoted in the article. I contacted both […]
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Chairman’s Letter – Summer 2024
Dear RCC members I have just come back from two weeks in France where we rather ambitiously combined walking in Provence with visiting friends near Bordeaux. This occasioned rather more […]
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Where should we put our bikes?
We often talk about how we can get from A to B on our bikes safely and conveniently, but we don’t talk enough about where we put them when we […]
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Kidical Mass Summer Report – Reading
Safer Streets Now! On 20 April Kidical Mass Reading held a ride in collaboration with Safer Streets Now, an action group who want to see our streets made safe, ideally […]
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