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Matt Touw’s Experience and Ideas

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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 […]

A Man Called Claud

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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 […]

Michael’s View

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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 […]

Contacting Just Eat and Deliveroo

19 August 202419 August 2024Alice1 Comment

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 […]

Reading Cycle Campaign Open Meeting

Fed up with seeing Food Delivery Cyclists ducking & weaving through the traffic? Do you think they give cyclists a bad name? Or are they just part of the gig […]

Cargo Bikes In West Berkshire

4 June 20234 June 2023AliceLeave a Comment

West Berkshire Council has supported several initiatives to support the use of cargo bikes. Two local businesses that have benefited from this support are Thatcham Refillable and DeeCaf in Tilehurst. […]

Pedal And Post To Deliver For Reading

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There was huge interest and a great turn-out for our April open meeting with Pedal and Post, the Oxford-based e-cargo bike delivery service. CEO Chris Benton gave an overview of […]

London’s First Cargo Bike Action Plan Launch

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In March Transport for London (TfL) unveiled a new plan to work with the boroughs, businesses and the freight and servicing industry to transform how deliveries and servicing trips are made […]

Green Bike Food Company

24 June 2021AliceLeave a Comment

Do you remember seeing food delivery cyclists zipping around city centres 10 years ago? I certainly don’t. In recent years we have seen a huge swing from independent eateries delivering […]