Unwrapping the Velosock and holding it in your hands feels like you are holding on to a giants brightly coloured boxers. Getting it on the bike is a little fiddly, but not difficult. You'd probably be better off doing it outside your home, because ...
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Discerning Cyclist Style Guide – Summer Edition
Guest post by Pete Reynolds from Discerning Cyclist Just because it’s getting a bit warmer in the summer months, there’s no reason to sacrifice on style when you’re out and about on your bike. There’s plenty of quality cycling clothes out there ...
5 accessories for a summer of cycling
With long summery days ahead of us, here are 5 accessories we love and recommend at London Cyclist. Smartphone bike mount Android, iPhone, Windows Phone, whatever your poison, you can mount it to your handlebars to follow directions and use as ...
What it’s like to get knocked off your bike
Andreas: This is a story from a London Cyclist reader. If you'd like to share your story, please use the contact page. I didn’t quite make it to work this morning. Half way there, I was knocked off my bike yards from where a fatal cycling accident ...
Traffic-free Sundays on Regent Street in July
For a glimpse of a car-free London, take a trip down to Regent's Streets on any Sunday in July. The usual traffic choked streets, will make way for street food festivals, group exercise sessions, a 50 metre catwalk and garden installations. Nina ...
What it’s like to race Bradley Wiggins
Note from Andreas: I’m in New York this week and it just so happened at the same time London Cyclist was invited to race Bradley Wiggins during his record breaking challenge. Unable to go, my friends Peter Newell and Ben Holt took on the ...
Flag Bikes along CS8 offers up repairs, coffee and lifetime servicing
John Hamlen spent 5 months walking along London's Cycle Superhighways to find the perfect location for his cycle cafe. One day, peering through the window of what was then another cafe, Eat Play Love, he knew he'd found the perfect spot. As ...
Here’s what all cycling tourism websites should look like
I don't know if you know this about me, but I like cycling. Whilst 99% of the time I'm cycling from A to B on the streets of London, on a rare opportunity, I'll go on a cycling trip. Recently, I've cycled in Germany, Bolivia and Devon. Next up, ...
All the hallmarks of a ‘typical’ London cycling death
The news this week that a female cyclist has died after being hit by a lorry in Denmark Hill has brought cycle safety into the spotlight once again. Over the past 24 hours, the two incidents have been the most viewed articles on the Evening Standard ...
Combine a weekend of sunshine, 2,000 riders, 185 miles.. what do you get?
The pictures are in from the 2015 Mitie London Revolution. Here's a selection of our favourites! Good advice at the start of the ride! Smart way to fuel up. I'd throw in a few energy gels too. The start of the ride is a chance to ...