Cycling as a Mum
I’ve always cycled, I started at age four and never really stopped. It gave me freedom from the overcrowded tube at rush hour, it allowed me to move to South […]
Continue Reading
Category: Information
Charlotte’s Tandems
Giving children and adults with disabilities the freedom of cycling Charlotte’s Tandems loans out tandems, tag-a-long bikes, recumbent tandems and wheelchair tandems for free to people with disabilities or additional […]
Continue Reading
A New Cycleway Out of Reading Being Planned
Plus Easy Ways You Can Help The Purpose To connect the communities of Emmer Green and Sonning Common via a safe, non-athletic bike route, a “Greenway” appealing equally to pedestrians […]
Continue Reading
Learning Cycling Skills and Confidence
Whatever your age! For the last two years Avanti Cycling has been running weekly FREE Cycle sessions for adults across Reading using various fundraising grants and some support from RBC. […]
Continue Reading
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 […]
Continue Reading
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 […]
Continue Reading
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 […]
Continue Reading
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 […]
Continue Reading
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 […]
Continue Reading
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 […]
Continue Reading