Cycling UK Forum

Thanks Gaz, seems I'm not quite as senile as I thought.

I'm a member of both CTC and BC, I might be reinventing the wheel but for a cyclist that's possibly good. I see my fee as an investment in both the sport and leisure pursuit I love. It's a personal opinion but there's room for lots of organisations if they gets people cycling and make the roads safe...

I have it in my head that guest riders can come on 5 rides without joining but after that they are supposed to join. I can't find it amongst policies and procedures so did I dream it or is/was this the case, and is it still extant?

Goodness, when I started this I had no idea it would go on and on. As a half Scots Welsh woman who resides in England, I think I can say I'm British (unless Wales are playing). I believe the term British related to the Romano-British, who were the ancestors of the Welsh and Cornish. It was reintrodu...

I don't claim to be the world's greatest expert on grammar and spelling, but the reliance on spell-checkers, shows how inadequate a large number of people are in terms of literacy. This is perhaps to be expected on the internet where people write things and don't check them, but supposed professiona...

I had a front mudguard explode when riding on a newly gritted road, as the clearance between tyre and mudguard is very small. So if you've fitted these to a road bike, be careful on grit.

It seems the roofbox company don't do one for my model of Megane (2003). The difficulty with my old rack is that the edge of the door on the hatch is folded under and the straps prevent the locking of the door which is flush on the bottom edge. Oh well back to the drawing board, thanks for the sugge...

Can anyone suggest a bike rack suitable for a Renault Megane - the one with the bump on the back. Sadly my old one doesn't fit it, and I don't have a tow bar. I don't really fancy a roof one, partly because I'd have to lift the bikes up there and I have a back problem.

It also depends upon how fast you're moving, trucks and lorries don't appreciate that you might be doing twenty or more mph, and cut in in front of you. I nearly ran into the back of one the other day who'd cut in just ahead of me. But for the biscuit, see my entry on happy slapping.

Yesterday, while cycling up the South Dorset Ridgeway (A354) from Weymouth to Dorchester, I felt a bump on my right butock a car very near beeped twice and shot off up the hill before I could register the make or number. It took me a moment to realise I'd been happy slapped , though I was anything b...

I do both, alone for pleasure or to get from A to B. I also go out with our local CTC saturday group, which is a gentle ride taken at the speed of the slowest rider, often me. Got my revenge yesterday, I led it. As we get members coming from areas of other groups, eg Somerset and Bournemouth, I take...

what is most frightening, is the casualness with which knives seem to be carried and by women as well as men, and I don't mean penknives.

but the vehicle excise licence (car tax) doesn't fund the roads, only the elegibility of that car to be driven on the public highway. Road building comes from the general exchequer. Cyclists have the right to use the public highway unless it says not, eg motorways. If motorists think we are getting ...

Have you seen this, it's quite effective?

http://dothetest.co.uk/

The first time I got over Hardy's Monument hill in Dorset, I crawled over it at about 3 or 4 miles an hour. I had an old camper van behind me, and he couldn't overtake as there was a car trying to come down on a very narrow stretch. He stalled about three times, but I was determined to keep going ha...