How To Go Bikepacking
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 […]
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Electric Adventure from Aldermaston to Bath
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 […]
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E-Bike and E-Scooter Battery Safety
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 […]
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Food Courier Switch
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. […]
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RCC Newsletter Spring 2025
The Spring 2025 RCC newsletter pdf is now downloadable from the Newsletters page, or you can also click on each article to read them separately. In this issue we talk about: Guidance […]
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RBC Spring 2025 Report
Funding The good news is that Reading Borough Council has been awarded £838,604 in Active Travel Fund (ATF) grant from the government. At the time of writing, full details of […]
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WBC Spring 2025 Report
The West Berkshire Cycle Forum met on Wednesday 15 January. The next Forum will be on Wednesday 16 April. If there are any matters you would like raised at the […]
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WoBC Spring 2025 Report
Active Travel Funding (ATF) Wokingham Borough Council (WoBC) has been allocated just over £862k, with around £170k allocated for revenue (planning and consultancy costs) and £691 allocated for capital (implementation […]
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After 42 Years – A Price Rise
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 […]
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Kidical Mass Spring 2025 Report
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 […]
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