Your smartphone is not only great for playing Angry Birds & Kingdom Rush Frontiers, it's also a useful tool if you ever find yourself in an emergency while out riding your bike. I recommend, picking up your phone and copy and pasting ...
Cycling in London
3 great North London cut-throughs
North London can be hilly if you are not careful, so finding a good cut-though can be a little more onerous than in Central or East London. There are also no true cycle superhighways in North London - CS1 is now in place but is certainly more of a ...
Cycling with children in London
A few weeks ago we brought you a guide to learning to ride a bike in London as an adult. Now, with the school holidays rapidly approaching (whoop to a quieter commute!) we felt it was a good time to bring together some resources for cycling with ...
3 great cut-throughs in Central London
Last week we highlighted some favourite cut-throughs in East London. This was somewhat hard to compile as I use a lot of cut-throughs in my regular route construction so picking 3 in any one area was not easy, but it makes you think about how well ...
3 great cycle cut-throughs in East London
We mentioned this in our route planning guide and here it is - the first of our posts on our favourite cut-throughs: East London. I love a good cut through - that feeling that you are getting away from the traffic while at the same time saving a ...
Route Planning tips
Cycling in London is great, obviously. There are some great cycle superhighways along with quiet roads and an increasingly large offering of cycling infrastructure. However, sometimes getting from A to B can require some intricate route planning. A ...
Bike shop profile – The Hackney Peddler
We have interviewed a few London based companies recently, but thought it was time to branch out into lovely local bike shops as well! In the first of our bike shop profiles, we headed to East London favourite, The Hackney Peddler to find out what ...
The best bike shops in Central London
We've gone from East to West, North to South and finally it's time for central London! Our choices are all independent bike shops that we know and love. As always, we encourage contributions in our comments - please share your favourite choices to ...
Summer cycling events in London
Summer is a wonderful time to cycle around the city. It is also a great time to check out some excellent cycling and bike-based events. Luckily, as Londoners we are spoilt for choice. Here is but a selection, as always please contribute your own ...
3 things I can’t understand about fellow cyclists
It's official, there's no commuter who is as happy as the cycle commuter. "I can't wait to get back on the underground" said nobody around the office water cooler ever. Instead the conversation is typically "Riding my bike in to work is sooooo ...
An interview with the founder of London based Svelte
In the first of our 'London cycling company' profiles, we sat down and had a chat with Svelte. Svelte is a fairly new, fairly small South London based company, founded in 2015. They currently produce a few of key pieces of cycling attire, notably ...
Love Smoothie Bike’s pedal powered blenders now mixing things up across London
A small company in London have been providing a unique take on fresh drinks using custom UK built California Cruiser bikes that convert pedal power to high speed blending. These green machines are available to hire for events and will crush ice, ...
Joyfully riding a cargo bike in London
Guest post by Sylvia Gauthereau The first time I rode a bicycle on a proper road was liberating - finally I was doing something that only grown up, or bigger kids did. I remember the wind on my face and through my hair, the excitement of riding ...
Why can’t we be friends?
Increasing the number of cyclists in London is not solely reliant on better infrastructure. For there to be more cyclists, there needs to be more people that are happy and comfortable on the roads. They need to want to give it a try and then want to ...
How to cope with 3 panic inducing bike commuter experiences
How you cope with life's major and minor challenges is a mark of character. Or so the common adage goes. The trying cycling events we usually encounter are related to road safety. However, there are a few things that will probably happen to ...
What stops people from becoming London cyclists?
As cyclists in London, we take for granted being able to navigate London on a bike. Although, even after many years of cycling, I still occasionally question my sanity and doubt my ability to get around safely. I've learnt to adapt, by avoiding ...
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 ...
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 ...
Beyond pink: The rise of the female-specific bike shop
Walking into Everyone Bikes, in Battersea, you’d be forgiven for thinking you’d wandered into a boutique rather than a bike shop. Everything here has been laid out with an eye to its visual appeal – from the helmets, forming a colourful display ...