Information – Reading Cycle Campaign

Kidical Mass Summer 2025 Report

21 May 2025AliceLeave a Comment

A Marathon, not a Sprint When we originally planned March’s Reading Kidical Mass ride, we hadn’t realised it coincided with the Reading half marathon. This was an interesting situation for […]

Chairman’s Letter Summer 2025

21 May 2025AliceLeave a Comment

Dear RCC members The theme of this newsletter is ‘Get out on your bike’, which is part of the founding mission of the RCC we have been promoting for over […]

How To Go Bikepacking

21 May 2025AliceLeave a Comment

Sit outside the Fisherman’s Cottage in Reading with a pint on a sunny Sunday and you’ll often spot cyclists passing on the canal-side path, bikes laden like pack mules. Look […]

Electric Adventure from Aldermaston to Bath

21 May 2025AliceLeave a Comment

After years of talking about it, they finally did it! On the morning of 6 April, three of them — John, Paul, and Mike — set off from Aldermaston Wharf […]

E-Bike and E-Scooter Battery Safety

21 May 2025AliceLeave a Comment

Electric scooters, electric bikes, power tools, laptops and phones all contain batteries. These contain substantial amounts of energy and are all capable of failing in a manner of ways, causing […]

Food Courier Switch

21 May 2025AliceLeave a Comment

How do you feel now that there are less food couriers on the roads? The non-throttle electric bikes have been an interesting debate point in many of our committee meetings. […]

After 42 Years – A Price Rise

27 February 202527 February 2025AliceLeave a Comment

The Reading Cycle Campaign started out in late 1982 and the cost of annual membership at that time was £3. Remarkably, the membership fee has not increased since that time […]

Kidical Mass Spring 2025 Report

27 February 2025AliceLeave a Comment

Who Needs a Sleigh? Neither flood nor frost was going to stop Santa from keeping the most important event in his calendar (apart from Christmas Eve, of course) – the […]

Chairman’s Letter Spring 2025

27 February 2025AliceLeave a Comment

Dear RCC members Several threads seem to have come together recently which have focused my attention on a problem I feel needs much wider publicity and discussion. These all congregate […]

Illegal Use of E-Scooters and E-Bikes and Road Safety Strategy

27 February 2025AliceLeave a Comment

Dear Joe Edwards, Thank you for your email received in the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (OPCC). I would like to provide you with some information with regards […]