AUTHOR:- David Ackerley, CyclingUK, Chester&North Wales. In this age of more or less instant contact with anywhere in the world where a Sat phone can go, it is difficult to imagine what communications were like two hundred years … Read More
The Anfield Bicycle Club was founded in 1879. It is one of the oldest surviving cycling clubs in the world. With a £16,000 grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund it has undertaken the mammoth task of digitalizing all its … Read More
Enter Matt&Mary Hodges Now into their seventies, Matt Hodges agrees he and his wife Mary are oddities- even among cyclists. He also agrees about the dangers of tribalism, but he’s not sure about those who believe in having a different … Read More
With the ever-increasing number of motor vehicles on our roads it is becoming increasingly difficult to find somewhere to walk and cycle in peace and quiet and, more particularly, in safety. Fortunately here in North Wales we have access to … Read More
There are two excellent cycleways from the historic border town of Chester to the Wharf at Connah’s Quay on on the Welsh side of the estuary of the river Dee, though they unite for the last mile or so at … Read More
At a members meeting in Birmingham on the 7th October 2017, CyclingUK awarded its highest honour for outstanding service to cycling, to the campaign team that gave evidence at the Caernarfon Bypass public inquiry. The proposed bypass impacts on National … Read More
Inquisition by Television ITV presenter Richard Madeley demanded a response from Duncan Dollimore of CyclingUK as to why cyclists were not compulsorily insured for damage or injury arising from a collision with a third party. Dollimore pointed out that organisations … Read More
For finding new routes to go cycling there’s nothing better than a decent scale Ordnance Survey Map – 1inch to a mile in old money. However if you want something a little simpler to be going on with until … Read More
Since the invention of the bicycle, countless cycling organisations have flourished briefly only to disappear without trace.There must be many faded photographs in private collections that attest to their existence. Apart from rare examples, most have left no physical … Read More
Cyclists and walkers join forces to protest. Three leading charities, CyclingUK, Sustrans, and the Ramblers Cymru are warning Welsh Government that its plans for the A487 Caernarfon bypass risk safety and do not provide enough provision for walking, … Read More