Information – Page 3 – Reading Cycle Campaign

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 […]

Passing Horses Safely

27 February 2025Alice1 Comment

Good day and thank you for taking the time to read this post. I’m a member of Pass Wide and Slow, a UK-wide campaign group dedicated to improving safety for […]

Peter Glass on his power assisted tricycle

My Chariot of Fire

27 February 2025AliceLeave a Comment

I learned to cycle 70 years ago in the Chiltern Hills. A few years later my dad decided it would be good for two teenage boys to move to a […]