It’s well worth settling down with the hot beverage of your choice and letting the estimable John Grimshaw tell you about the start of cycle campaigning in Bristol, and we venture, in the UK. He describes the striking series of demonstrations and actions that started in 1974 and lead to the Bristol Bath Railway Path […]
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Safety – or “feel good” safety?
We enjoy it when members pen their thoughts, observations and evidence about cycling in Bristol. (If you’d like to contribute something, please do contact us.) But occasionally something comes along from “outside” which we really want to share. Here is a remarkably well thought-through article from a woman – Marjut Ollitervo – from Finland. It […]
Non-collision injuries in Bristol – what can be done about ice?
Of course, cycling is overall a safe and very healthy activity, with cyclists being much healthier overall than non-cyclists. But there are risks which we need to be reducing, and they’re not always the ones that attract the most attention. Research in Bristol and published by The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents makes this […]
700+ cyclists injured on Bristol’s roads in 2017 … 1 prosecution for dangerous driving
Bristol Cycling has obtained the police’s latest figures for road collisions and incidents resulting in the injury of vulnerable road users in 2017. They show that 191 pedestrians and 232 cyclists were recorded by the police as being injured on Bristol city’s roads. But we know that these figures massively under-record the true level of […]
City & Guilds Level 2 Cycle Mechanics course, June-July
LifeCycle have advised us that there a few places left on this course which starts in Bristol on 5 June. It’s aimed at people who already know some bike mechanics and want to take their skills further: to be able to completely strip down and rebuild a bicycle. LifeCycle supply overalls, gloves, workstands, bikes to […]