Cycling UK Forum

2 incidents i have witnessed lately make me question the police in this country and their attitude/egos. Firstly i was lost and cycling through the center of Birmingham, only to have a copper chase after me to ask me to dismount depsite me about to get on the road in 50feet and travelling slower tha...

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i had a look and there is a petition to make cyclists pay a tax to cover the "congestion and accidents" that they cause to motorists!!!!!!! outrageous. fortunately this petition has 12 signatures, the one in favour has over 500

i would say that is alot of clothes to be lugging around. i am going for 3 weeks and am taking 2 cycling tops (one short sleave and one light weight long sleave, if i get cold i wear both) Waterproof 2 cycling shorts cycling trousers 2Xsocks 3Xboxers Pair of trousers where the legs zip off to become...

some sound advice thank you all. particularly useful website, thanks for the list!

i go for a factor 30, sounds alot but means that you never have to re-apply meaning no need to carry the extra 50 grammes!

my words of wisdom would be to try out everything, absolutely everything before you go. there is nothing worse than lugging something for 3 days to go to use it for the 1st time and something is missing or it does'nt work!

Hello there, i am a member of north birmingham CTC and can comfortably clock up 50 a day. My cycle keen friend is also quite fit and has a place in Grenoble so after a few beers decided to book a ferry and we are committed to spending all of august trying to get there. We have adequate equipment etc...